Treasury Proposes Expanding US Investment Curbs on Chinese AI, Biotech
The Treasury Department has proposed adding biotechnology to restrictions on American investment in Chinese companies and widening an existing ban on investing in Chinese...
Big dreams, growing pains in Indonesia: Prabowo’s turbulent 2 years in power
When 35-year-old Bekasi resident Ika Kartika voted for Prabowo Subianto in Indonesia’s 2024 presidential election, she hoped the former general would restore a “Suharto-like”...
OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn’t work.Read More
EU Weighs Extending China Import Restraints Beyond Cars
Shipping containers, including one of China Shipping, lie on flatbed railway cars as dock cranes stand behind at Hamburg Port in Hamburg, Germany, on...
OpenAI says it’s cutting off internet access for frontier model training
The company is trying to avoid another Hugging Face incident.
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Oct. 23, 2026 6:37 pm EST OpenAI will train frontier AI...
US-China strategic competition to keep escalating as world watches on, Rudd says
Published: 6:29am, 24 Oct 2026Updated: 6:51am, 24 Oct 2026 Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society and a former Australian prime minister, described US-China...
US, allies and China vie for influence through Pacific security deals
Published: 6:27am, 24 Oct 2026Updated: 6:29am, 24 Oct 2026 Strategic competition between China and the US and its allies is intensifying across the Pacific...
What will China’s fifth plenum mean for the root-and-branch corruption drive?
Plenary sessions of the Central Committee, the upper echelon of China’s ruling Communist Party, are major events on the country’s political calendar. In the...
Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a “nap,” and summersaulted on voice command.Read More