Washington just froze Anthropic's most advanced AI models over security fears, while Beijing hands out cheap, open-source AI to the whole world for pennies on every single dollar spent. The US-China AI war is no longer just about raw performance. It is now a fight over cost, national security, Taiwan, and who controls AI's future.
Congo conflict minerals are at the center of a war most people know nothing about. The DRC produces 70% of the world's cobalt and 60% of global coltan reserves. Those minerals power your phone, your electric vehicle, and precision missiles. China controls most of it. A rebel group controls the mines. America must pay attention.
The Pentagon China blacklist now names 188 Chinese companies linked to the People's Liberation Army. Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, Tencent, and NIO are on it. China's 2017 military-civil fusion law requires every company to cooperate with Beijing's military on demand. They wrote the law. Now they cry discrimination.
The Iran conflict exposed a deeper truth about modern war infrastructure: our most advanced technologies still run on oil, electricity, and undersea cables. AI needs power. Data centers need energy. GPS guides our missiles. And 97% of global internet traffic flows through cables on the ocean floor. The next war may target all of them.
Europe keeps falling behind in the AI race while Washington debates whether to copy Brussels. This article explains how EU over‑regulation, high costs, and weak investment turned Europe into a “regulation superpower, tech follower” — and why America must not repeat that mistake.
The White House did something unusual this week. It called out Beijing not just for hacking, but for “industrial‑scale campaigns” to steal U.S. frontier AI systems. In a memo first reported by the Financial Times, Trump’s science adviser Michael Kratsios…
