$3.2 trillion has been spent on AI deals this year. It's the most spent on deal-making over a half-year period in at least a decade. Many companies have cited AI as a reason for mass layoffs. People won't be able to afford AI products and services unless they have enough income.
India approved a manufacturing joint venture between Vivo and local manufacturer Dixon Technologies on Thursday. The joint venture will acquire certain manufacturing assets from Vivo, manufacture part of the company’s smartphone orders in India and produce electronic products for other brands. Vivo has manufactured and exported smartphones from India for years, but the approved venture marks a shift toward a majority Indian-owned manufacturing structure. Chinese smartphone brands are increasingly exploring partnerships with Indian companies after New Delhi tightened investment rules.
Pentagon's push to put the U.S. defense industrial base on a wartime footing faces major shortcomings. Manufacturing timelines for many critical munitions remain measured in years rather than months, and supply chain bottlenecks continue to hamper output. The Defense Department has signed a series of multiyear agreements with major defense contractors to provide predictable demand and encourage companies to expand production capacity.
Zai's GLM-5.2 is a Chinese AI model that is comparable to OpenAI's and Anthropic's. David Sacks, former White House AI advisor, said it's better than OpenAI or Anthropic. Some warned that U.S. export controls are slowing down American companies. But the real problem is the theft of American intellectual property by China.
Bernie Sanders has proposed the “American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act’ which would give AI companies a 50% equity stake to the federal government. Brad Gerstner has talked to Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei about participating in the scheme.
Beijing is trying to build the world’s dominant computing platform. America is treating the technology race as a technology race. China is treating it as a civilization-building project. History's great wars were won not by the single best weapon but by nations able to generate energy, build factories and produce the industrial output needed to prevail.
$3.2 trillion has been spent on AI deals this year. It's the most spent on deal-making over a half-year period in at least a decade. Many companies have cited AI as a reason for mass layoffs. People won't be able to afford AI products and services unless they have enough income.
India approved a manufacturing joint venture between Vivo and local manufacturer Dixon Technologies on Thursday. The joint venture will acquire certain manufacturing assets from Vivo, manufacture part of the company’s smartphone orders in India and produce electronic products for other brands. Vivo has manufactured and exported smartphones from India for years, but the approved venture marks a shift toward a majority Indian-owned manufacturing structure. Chinese smartphone brands are increasingly exploring partnerships with Indian companies after New Delhi tightened investment rules.
Pentagon's push to put the U.S. defense industrial base on a wartime footing faces major shortcomings. Manufacturing timelines for many critical munitions remain measured in years rather than months, and supply chain bottlenecks continue to hamper output. The Defense Department has signed a series of multiyear agreements with major defense contractors to provide predictable demand and encourage companies to expand production capacity.
Zai's GLM-5.2 is a Chinese AI model that is comparable to OpenAI's and Anthropic's. David Sacks, former White House AI advisor, said it's better than OpenAI or Anthropic. Some warned that U.S. export controls are slowing down American companies. But the real problem is the theft of American intellectual property by China.
Bernie Sanders has proposed the “American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act’ which would give AI companies a 50% equity stake to the federal government. Brad Gerstner has talked to Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei about participating in the scheme.
Beijing is trying to build the world’s dominant computing platform. America is treating the technology race as a technology race. China is treating it as a civilization-building project. History's great wars were won not by the single best weapon but by nations able to generate energy, build factories and produce the industrial output needed to prevail.