Global AI Governance and Policy Shifts China Champions Global AI Cooperation: At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced plans to create a new international organization to jointly develop and govern AI reuters.com. Li warned that AI could become an “exclusive game” for a few nations or companies without…
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Meta Supercharges AI Ambitions with OpenAI Talent Meta’s High-Profile Hire: In a bold talent grab, Meta Platforms announced it has hired Shengjia Zhao, a co-creator of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4, as chief scientist of its new “Superintelligence Lab.” CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the move on July 25, calling Zhao a “co-founder” of the lab who…
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China’s New Drone “Iron Curtain” on Drones In 2025, Beijing imposed sweeping new limits on drone exports, sending shockwaves through battlefields and markets worldwide. Chinese authorities have halted or sharply reduced drone sales to Ukraine, the U.S., and Europe, even as flows to Russia appear to continue unabated kyivindependent.com dronexl.co. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has…
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Complete Roundup of the Chinese J-35 Fighter Jet China’s new J-35 stealth fighter – a carrier-capable offshoot of the Shenyang FC-31 “Gyrfalcon” program – marks a major leap in Beijing’s military aviation ambitions. Developed as the country’s second fifth-generation warplane after the J-20, the J-35 is designed to bring stealth and advanced multirole capabilities to…
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Consumer Technology: Smartphones, Gadgets & Electric Vehicles Huawei Leaps Back to #1: China’s smartphone market saw a shakeup in Q2 2025 as Huawei regained the top spot with 12.5 million units shipped, its first time at #1 in over four years finance.sina.com.cn. IDC attributes Huawei’s comeback to “strong brand promotion and effective channel policies” after…
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China’s AI Ambitions and Open-Source Revolution Beijing’s Billion-Dollar AI Drive: China is pouring massive resources into AI as a matter of national strategy. A New York Times report notes that Beijing is taking an “industrial policy approach” to help its AI companies catch up to U.S. rivals intellinews.org. Indeed, China’s AI sector has grown explosively:…
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China’s navy has taken a dramatic leap in 2025, officially unveiling a stealth aircraft carrier program that could upend the balance of naval power in the Indo-Pacific. This bold initiative – combining cutting-edge carriers, stealth jets, drones, and electromagnetic catapults – is drawing both awe and anxiety across the globe. What exactly has China announced,…
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Stock Performance (July 14–15, 2025) NVDA’s Wild Two-Day Ride: Nvidia’s stock saw volatile but ultimately bullish action over the past two sessions. On Monday, July 14, NVDA pulled back slightly, closing at $164.07 (down 0.5%) investopedia.com stockinvest.us after trading between $162.02 and $165.49 intraday stockinvest.us. This minor dip came on lighter trading volume (~136.7 million…
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AI Breakthroughs and Ambitions China’s artificial intelligence sector surged ahead in July 2025 with bold moves in both software and infrastructure. Early in the month, Beijing-based startup Moonshot AI open-sourced its latest large language model “Kimi K2,” claiming it outperforms other open models and even rivals top U.S. models in coding and complex tasks reuters.com…
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Space News Roundup: July 2025 China’s Bold Advances: Space-Based AI, Deep Space Ambitions, and Satellite Networks The ‘Three-Body Computing Constellation’: Space-Based AI Supercomputing China has launched the Three-Body Computing Constellation, a new class of satellites designed to perform advanced in-orbit data processing and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Each satellite in this constellation boasts a staggering…
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