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Nvidia chip export loophole clouds US-China AI summit talks

An investigative report on a blacklisted Chinese server maker’s American subsidiary, which has freely exported Nvidia’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips through a loophole in Washington’s Entity List rules, has added fresh uncertainty to a planned US-China AI

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Trump posts map showing US takeovers of other nations

US President Donald Trump has spent his second term threatening takeovers of various other countries, from Canada and Cuba to Greenland, and on Monday he shared on social media a map that fueled fresh fears of his imperialist “Donroe Doctrine.” The map on Trump’s Truth Social

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The deliberate crime of Indonesia’s toxic haze

Indonesia is once again dominating headlines across Southeast Asia as dense plumes of toxic haze drift into neighboring skies. Latest satellite monitoring data from the Ministry of Forestry’s SiPongi system confirms that over 202,000 hectares of forest and land have been

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Can decentralized energy prevent the next crisis?

After International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol labeled the ongoing global energy turmoil the “biggest energy security threat in history” in April, events over the summer vindicated his warning. The United States authorized the grid operator Southwest Power

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Will Hasina ever retake power in Bangladesh?

On August 5, two years to the day after a mass uprising drove Sheikh Hasina from power, she announced from India that she would return to Bangladesh in December. Read as a forecast, the statement is implausible. Read as a signal, it is easy to decode. To a scattered and

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China’s WZ-X drone hints at an unmanned stealth bomber

China’s WZ-X points to a future in which stealth, endurance, surveillance and strike converge in a new class of unmanned aircraft built for sustained operations across the vast distances of the Pacific. This month, The War Zone (TWZ) reported that newly surfaced aerial imagery

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