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China's ability to weather Trump's trade war was two decades in the making
2+ week, 6+ day ago (464+ words) As Xi Jinping prepares to host Donald Trump for a delayed summit in Beijing on May 14-15, a lot has changed since the US president's last visit to China in November 2017. Trump's first trade war with China began in earnest the…...
Computer science culture often means anybody's data is fair game to feed the AI algorithm " but artists are fighting back
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (735+ words) Content created with the help of generative AI is popping up everywhere, and it's worrying some artists and content creators. They're concerned that their intellectual property may be at risk if generative AI tools have been built by scraping the…...
Why India joining the US alliance on AI tech is an opportunity for Australia
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (820+ words) India has formally joined the United States" flagship international alliance on artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain security: "Pax Silica. Officials from both countries signed the Pax Silica declaration on the sidelines of a major AI summit in New Delhi last…...
Television wasn't the death knell for cinema " and that holds lessons for the creative industries and AI
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (837+ words) As television grew rapidly in popularity in the second half of the 20th century, many people assumed it would cause a knock-on crisis for the film industry. After all, it meant that viewers no longer had to leave their sofas to…...
Holocaust education has a growing Gen AI problem
2+ hour, 9+ min ago (956+ words) Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) has been the most disruptive force to hit education in a long time, and educators are still absorbing the impact. My colleagues and I have had to reprogram our approaches and classroom assessments as Gen…...
Pope Leo XIV compares AI to the Industrial Revolution " as new alternatives to big AI firms take shape
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (1063+ words) With the release of his encyclical letter Magnifica Humanitas on May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV has signaled that he wants the church to respond to artificial intelligence much as a predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, responded to upheavals during the Industrial Revolution…...
Your bank's AI just blocked your payment " what can you do?
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (1183+ words) Imagine you're at the supermarket checkout. Your cart is full. The line behind you is long. You tap your card. Declined. You try again. Declined. You haven't overspent. You haven't done anything suspicious. But somewhere inside your bank's computer systems,…...
Can you own a voice? Taylor Swift's latest legal move raises big questions for AI and copyright
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (527+ words) It's the latest example of the singer using her status and power to challenge industry norms and assert the rights of artists. Although the actor Matthew Mc Conaughey beat Swift to the punch by successfully trademarking some of his famous…...
An AI solution to an 80-year-old problem has shocked mathematicians
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (768+ words) Last week, Open AI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erd's in 1946. The planar unit distance problem,…...
Pope Leo warns of AI's risks to humanity in his first encyclical
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (453+ words) The pope has warned that AI is never truly neutral: it reflects the society that made it. He has called for ethical oversight " and protecting workers....