@Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese state media: Xi Jinping called for more defense applications using autonomous and AI technologies, as he pushes to build an advanced fighting force (Josh Xiao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31…
@fazalmajid@vivaldi.netSome commentators hyperventilate about China's huge new embassy, but did you know until last year UK Power Networks, the operator for the electric grid in London and most of Southeast England, was owned by a Hong-Kong company? Xi Jinping thus had the means to plunge the UK's most critical areas into darkness at the stroke of a pen. You can't make incompetence like that up.
Fortunately, it's been acquired by French company Engie, so the French had to come and rescue the …
@carl@heath.socialXi Jinping talar om AI som en symfoni av internationellt samarbete. Men vem skriver partituret, vem sätter tempot och vem får spela solo? Om Kinas AI strategi, beroendet av amerikanska teknikbolag, Taiwans kiselsköld och vad Sverige och EU behöver göra.
https://carlheath.se/symfon…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deChinas Staatschef Xi fordert Kontrolle und Offenheit bei KI
Im KI-Wettstreit mit den USA fordert Chinas Präsident Xi Jinping mehr Kontrolle und einen offeneren Zugang zu mächtigen KI-Technologien.
https://www.…
@fremandolasse@mastodon.socialXi never wastes a good crisis. As Iran, Ukraine and Palestine distract the world, he tightens his grip
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/08/president-xi-jinping-global-order-minorities-china
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAt the World AI Conference, Xi Jinping touts open-source AI, pledges to help the Global South build AI capabilities, and calls unequal AI access an "injustice" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
@cdarwin@c.imAn American scientist who has studied underground nuclear tests
has been detained in China for more than 18 months on spying charges,
according to his supporters and a US lawmaker.
💥Youlin Chen, a seismologist, has been “wrongfully detained” since November 2024,
US Senator Edward Markey said in a statement Tuesday.
Donald Trump raised Chen’s detention and asked for his freedom during a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing in May,
according to …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFilings: Xinhuanet, owned by China's official Xinhua news agency, plans to invest ~$162.38M on an "authoritative" AI agent to help promote Xi Jinping's thinking (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@fazalmajid@vivaldi.net@… @… they've been ordered by Xi Jinping to prioritize Chinese manufacturers. Not sure if Lenovo's for-export PCs qualify.
@deabigt@universeodon.comGot to comment when seeing Vote Red with claiming to be anti communist. Especially when they are old enough to remember the often-quoted phrase “Better dead than red.” Combined with DJT’s fondness for Putin, it fuels speculation about all the red hats. Putin and Xi Jinping must be loving it.
@Simone21@mastodon.socialEs ist so essentiell, dass Europa die Ukraine unterstützt, und zwar spürbar.
Und sich unabhängig macht von den USA.
Und seine eigenen Werte wieder reaktiviert und lebt.
Und sich nicht einschüchtern lässt, weder von Tech-Konzernen, noch von Putin oder Trump oder Xi Jinping oder wie sie noch so alle heissen.
#Frieden #Ukraine #Menschenrechte #WerteLeben #jetztHandeln #neueWege #gemeinsam
