Following AI in China and the United States. Grounded in evidence, open to debate.
Surging revenue, enormous losses and $518 billion in compute commitments appear together. An analysis of prospectus figures reported by the media: a $42 billion net loss is not the same amount of cash burned, and a $47 billion annualized run rate is not full-year revenue. How many years of success does $2 trillion already price in?
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Manus joined Meta, then became independent again. Now Cue gives personal agents email, phone numbers, wallets and computers. Official X posts and images explain group collaboration, real-world services and access limits, with a comparison of Grok Bot and Meta Muse.
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New AI apps arrive faster than anyone can learn them. By the time you open a saved tutorial, a better alternative may already be available. From Claude and Codex to DeepSeek Harness, Kimi, ZCode and Muse: the technical advances, China–US approaches and old tools you can skip.
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AI can already help detect cancer, advance new drugs into clinical trials, reach mathematics gold-medal standards, and participate in complex programming, visual creation and autonomous driving. Which achievements are in use, and which remain experimental? This overview charts key advances across fields and provides a clear roadmap for the topics to follow.
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From tariffs, rare earths, and chips to artificial intelligence, China–U.S. competition is reaching deeper into the foundations of national strength. The more AI becomes a strategic asset of great powers, the more the two countries need to manage their differences and improve safety together, ensuring that technology benefits humanity rather than pushing it toward a loss of control.
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CNN reports that the US military prepared to intercept a Chinese ship on the basis of faulty, AI-assisted intelligence. Catastrophe need not begin with a machine rebellion. It may begin with people trusting a convincing report. Binding controls on high-risk AI cannot wait.
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