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American and Chinese companies have come to dominate the global artificial intelligence race.Imen Ben Youssef | AFP | Getty ImagesHello, I’m Evelyn. I am writing to you from Beijing. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection. This is a snapshot of what I’ve seen and heard from local businesses.As Chinese startups build new artificial intelligence models and more U.S. startups tap into them, risks to the U.S.-China relationship are rising.big storyChina’s role in AI is rapidly changing.President Xi Jinping’s AI speech on July 17th and the simultaneous release of Claude Fabre 5’s rival Kimi K3 were just the…
Microsoft announced its first cybersecurity-specific model and new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco on Monday, giving it a big win over the major players in the space: Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. The company describes MAI-Cyber-1-Flash as a model built “to find difficult vulnerabilities in complex codebases.” This model is built to animate MDASH, Microsoft’s harness dedicated to identifying and remediating software vulnerabilities. The new security platform is called Perception and is designed to deploy a team of agents to assist and automate various security workflows, including identifying and remediating bugs. This platform can also be…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday that AI trade is becoming increasingly vulnerable. “If you’re borrowing money to buy something related to data centers, sell it at 9:30 tomorrow morning, whatever it is,” the “Mad Money” host said. “You won’t regret it.”Many AI infrastructure and data center stocks have soared over the past year. But the group is starting to pull back as investors question whether the pace of data center spending can continue. Kramer said the volatility in AI stocks due to these uncertainties makes investing with borrowed funds, known as margin trading, especially risky. The amount of margin debt…
For years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump has followed a script of red carpets, warm handshakes and shared messages about the closeness of the Israel-U.S. alliance. But their relationship has changed markedly since they last met five months ago. The close cooperation and glowing praise since the start of the Iran war has given way to expletive-filled rants directed at President Trump’s most vocal international defenders. This is Netanyahu’s seventh visit to the United States since President Trump returned to power, more than any other world leader. But this time,…
Emilia Clarke’s brain aneurysmEmilia Clarke, who filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, published an essay in The New Yorker in 2019 titled “A Battle for My Life.”After suffering a severe headache at the gym, the actress writes, “I made it to the bathroom and fell to my knees feeling very, very sick.” “During that time, the pain was getting worse with shooting, stabbing, squeezing pain. On some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was swift and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a life-threatening type…
West Indies paceman Greaves becomes the first player in Test history to bowl five consecutive wicket maidens.Published July 28, 2026July 28, 2026West Indies all-rounder Justin Greaves made Test cricket history on Monday by becoming the first bowler in a recorded era to take wickets in five consecutive maiden overs in the opening Test against Pakistan at Taroba.The 32-year-old posted a record of 5 wins and 27 losses on the third day, helping swing the World Test Championship contest in favor of the hosts.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listGreaves surpassed the record of four consecutive wicket maidens set by…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the AI Impact Summit on Thursday, February 19, 2026 in New Delhi, India. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on Monday that the company has “never advocated for a ban on open-class models,” seeking to repel criticism that has surfaced across the tech industry that the AI Institute is trying to exercise too much control over the future of artificial intelligence. Amodei announced his views in a blog post on Monday after a consortium of tech companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and Palantir released a letter late last week urging…
Countless Claude chats and artifacts (interactive mini-apps and documents that users can create within Claude) were discovered to be publicly searchable on Google over the weekend after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators like “site:claude.ai/share” into Google brought up a long list of shared conversations. It reportedly included health records, private company documents, and children’s names and phone numbers. This issue appears to be caused by Claude’s “shared chat” feature. This feature allows users to create links that allow anyone with an assigned URL to view a conversation or project. “Anyone with the link can view it,” a warning…
A banker works in front of multiple monitors in the dealing room of Hana Bank on May 12, 2026 in Seoul, South Korea. Null Photo | Null Photo | Getty ImagesWall Street’s technology moves and South Korea’s stock market are becoming increasingly intertwined, as spending on artificial intelligence ties the fortunes of U.S. technology giants and South Korean memory chip makers.The 60-day correlation between Kospi and Nasdaq 100 It recently rose to around 0.50, its highest level since 2021, according to data provided by Rayliant.This growing relationship reflects the growing dominance of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which account for…
A key recent development in the war with Iran centers on attacks on U.S. ally Saudi Arabia by Tehran-backed groups. As a precaution, the Saudi Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that it had intercepted several drones launched from Iraq targeting oil facilities in the country’s oil-rich Eastern Province and Riyadh region. Here are the latest developments in this regard and other important issues we are monitoring: • The drone launched in Saudi Arabia is not the first from Iraq, but several countries have condemned the attack, including Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Lebanon. • Oman on Monday launched a push…