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ThursdaySep 17, 2026 10:00 am

Study Calls for Greater Use of Satellites in Monitoring Conflict Zones

Totalitarian regimes have often restricted the flow of information to the outside world as they engage in various atrocities, such as mass killings and destruction of communities. A new study documents how satellites have been helping to expose such atrocities and calls for greater use of this technology. The study, whose findings appeared in the Nature journal, cites cases in which satellite imagery helped to provide reliable information about atrocities in different conflict zones. One example is the conflict in Myanmar in which the army killed all the people in entire villages and it was hard to find eye-witnesses to…

TuesdaySep 15, 2026 10:00 am

Tech Stocks Stumble as Calls for Slower AI Development Mount

Early trading on Asian stock exchanges saw tech stocks shedding some of the gains they had made recently. The selloff was driven by several factors that included a rise in crude oil prices, expectations of borrowing rate increases and growing calls from tech leaders to reduce the pace of AI development as greater understanding of the risks of the technology is attained. On Saturday, Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, wrote an essay in which he urged the tech industry to collectively pump the brakes on the speed at which they were bringing new AI systems online. He explained that it was…

FridaySep 11, 2026 10:00 am

China Rejects US Accusations of Large-Scale Theft of AI

China has issued a strongly worded statement rejecting accusations by the United States that Chinese tech companies are stealing American AI on an industrial scale. The rebuff was issued on Wednesday. Earlier on Tuesday, a trio of U.S. intelligence agencies – the FBI, NSA (National Security Agency), and CISA – accused AI companies in China of exploiting U.S.-developed AI models in order to develop their own models. The advisory that was issued jointly by the three U.S. intelligence agencies singled out firms like Moonshot AI, Alibaba and DeepSeek as guilty of conducting large-scale distillation campaigns from as far back as…

WednesdaySep 09, 2026 10:00 am

Several Narratives Emerge to Explain the Recent Rogue AI Incidents

Recent weeks have seen the news dominated by reports of AI agents going rogue and hacking into sites and systems outside the controlled testing environments created by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. The story of these rogue agents has taken on as many colors as the people narrating it, and we explore some of those narratives. OpenAI framed the breaches as “warning shots” depicting how dangerous the latest AI systems can be and called for investment by society (governments?) in AI safety to prevent large-scale harms arising from the powerful systems they have created. This narrative is protectionist at…

FridaySep 04, 2026 10:00 am

Hurdles Countries Are Facing in Implementing Social Media Bans for Minors

Australia made history last year by being the first country in the world to ban children under 16 years of age from accessing social media. Since then, several other countries like Malaysia have imposed similar bans, and many more countries are exploring how to take similar steps. We discuss some of the challenges that are being faced in the countries that have so far imposed social media bans for minors. Many teens have devised ways to beat the age-verification mechanisms being used by social media platforms. For example, some in Australia have come up with methods like wearing eyelashes and…

ThursdaySep 03, 2026 10:00 am

US Automakers Diversify into Energy Storage as EV Demand Weakens

As the dynamics of the electric vehicle market change in the wake of the end of purchase subsidies for customers and supply chain challenges, U.S. automakers have turned to the energy storage industry as a way to utilize their production capacity for batteries and protect their investments. This change in product enables the carmakers to keep their battery factories open and capable of making EV batteries if market conditions change for the better. The factories are being retooled to make stationary battery energy storage systems (BESS) and the production lines can be changed, at a cost, to resume EV battery…

TuesdaySep 01, 2026 10:00 am

Anthropic Inks 460MW AI Compute Deal with Nscale

According to media reports, Anthropic has signed a deal worth $45 billion with UK-based firm Nscale. The deal entails the AI infrastructure company providing AI compute capacity of 460 megawatts to Anthropic starting in 2027. The data center that will provide this compute power is located in West Virginia. The lease agreement spans six years. The deal with Nscale comes at a time when Anthropic has negotiated and signed similar compute deals with a number of entities that include Volta, a startup that owns a data center located in Norway. This deal was signed earlier in August. Another deal worth…

ThursdayAug 27, 2026 10:00 am

Taiwan Charges 9 With Exporting Advanced AI Servers to China

On Monday, prosecutors in Taiwan charged nine individuals with offences linked to the illegal export of high-end AI equipment to mainland China. The accused include two people that work with Super Micro and one that works with Nvidia. This case marks another flashpoint in the technology rivalry between Beijing and Washington. According to prosecutors, 74 servers successfully reached mainland China through the efforts of the accused people. These B300 GPU servers reached China in different ways and batches, according to investigators. Fifty were shipped through Indonesia, 16 moved directly from Taiwan to China, while eight took a complex route through…

ThursdayAug 27, 2026 10:00 am

US House Lawmaker Calls for Federal Law on Self-Driving Vehicles

Rep. Erin Houchin, a Republican from Indiana, has called for action on draft legislation before Congress aimed at regulating the rapidly growing self-driving car industry. The bill, dubbed the SELF DRIVE Act, seeks to place self-driving vehicles under the authority of the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). The bill also seeks to increase the safety requirements that these vehicles must adhere to, while also requiring the sharing of more data on crashes involving self-driving cars. Houchin expressed her views during an event that was hosted in Washington, D.C., by the media firm Axios. This event coincided with the Freedom…

TuesdayAug 25, 2026 10:00 am

New Challenges and Opportunities Emerge for Storage Chip Manufacturers

For a long time, storage chips have been a standardized commodity whose market is cyclical. First comes a growth in demand from segments like consumer electronics, then comes a ramp-up of manufacturing capacity by all fabs, next is oversupply once all producers pour huge amounts of interchangeable products onto the market, and then the inevitable bust happens as all manufacturers lower prices to get rid of the excess inventory that has flooded the market. The AI boom is rapidly changing the picture. For a while, AI hyperscalers have been content to use the standardized storage chips while building out their…

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