In a few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) virtual assistants will be as common as the smart phone "
— Dave Waters
Despite billions in US investment and China’s domestic chip push, Taiwan remains the chokepoint in the US-China AI race, with advanced chips, compute infrastructure, and semiconductor power still running through the island.
Singapore is testing whether AI adoption and worker protection can advance together as governments worldwide grapple with the economic risks of automation, with Parliament backing a “no jobless growth” transition before AI-driven labor disruption fully accelerates.
A federal judge in San Francisco has granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense, blocking a Trump administration directive that every federal agency would ban the use of Anthropic AI system, Claude.
The U.S. says it is promoting secure AI exports, not reviving the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule. But as new controls on advanced AI chips emerge, the debate is shifting toward a larger question: who will control the computing power shaping the future of artificial intelligence?
Google CEO Sundar Pichai urged governments and tech companies to pursue AI boldly and responsibly.
