Category: AI

NTD Business Full Broadcast (Nov. 5)

The job market recovery is gaining momentum, as the unemployment rate fell to the lowest level in 18 months. Etsy thrives as other businesses suffer. The e-commerce platform seems immune to supply shortages. In fact, they seem to benefit from them. Google-parent Alphabet is building a new lab in the UK. It will use AI…


Intel, Sequoia Linked to AI Company That Worked for Chinese Military: Report

News Analysis Major U.S. firms, including Intel and Sequoia Capital, have maintained financial and research ties with a Chinese company known to provide artificial intelligence to Beijing’s military, according to a new report by the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University. 4Paradigm, a major enterprise AI company headquartered in Beijing, was…


Chinese Military Plans Foreign Port Destruction

News Analysis The Chinese military is unveiling a range of sophisticated military technologies, from underwater stealth attacks against foreign ports, to drone fighters and military artificial intelligence (AI). China’s military is testing stealthy underwater explosions for purposes of the destruction of foreign ports, according to the Global Times, an ultra-nationalist news outlet controlled by the…


Chinese Regime Using US Tech to Create Weapons, House Republicans Warn

The Chinese military likely used American technologies in its reported test of a hypersonic weapon earlier in the year, according to a recent letter signed by 17 Republican lawmakers. “It is likely that U.S. software and tools contributed to the creation of this weapons system, because of our country’s permissive export controls and licensing policies…


US Intelligence Agency Warns Companies on China’s ‘Comprehensive’ Efforts to Acquire Critical Technologies

The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) launched an outreach campaign on Oct. 22 to warn and instruct U.S. organizations engaged in critical and emerging technologies about the dangers posed by foreign states’ counterintelligence operations. “In recent months, NCSC has begun engagements with various entities in these sectors to provide information on nation-state threats to…


Nicolas Chaillan, Former Pentagon Software Chief, on What the US Must Do to Win China AI Battle Before ‘Point of No Return’

“We’re losing this battle.” The United States is losing the AI race against communist China, says Nicolas Chaillan, who recently resigned from his position as the chief software officer for the U.S. Air Force. U.S. companies still lead in technological advancements, but they are unwilling to share their technology with the Department of Defense. “If…


CCP Poses ‘Insider Threat’ to American Companies: Former Pentagon Official

A former Pentagon official has warned that the Chinese Communist Party is sending people to infiltrate American businesses. In addition, the Department of Defense needs to do a better job of working with the tech industry to prevent China from achieving dominance in the field of artificial intelligence, the former official said. “The fact is, the…


‘One Team, One Fight!’: Former DoD Official Highlights Urgency in US Fight to Maintain AI Superiority Over China

The Pentagon’s efforts to maintain a strategic advantage against China in the domains of artificial intelligence and machine learning are being undermined by bureaucratic waste and a lack of urgency, according to a former Department of Defense (DoD) cybersecurity official. “China isn’t behind, but is leading, and we are running out of time,” said Nicolas…


Google Wants to Use AI to Time Traffic Lights More Efficiently

Alphabet Inc.’s Google Inc. cut fuel use and traffic delays by 10 percent to 20 percent at four locations in Israel by using artificial intelligence to optimize signal lights and it next plans to test the software in Rio de Janeiro, the company said on Wednesday. The early-phase research project is among new software initiatives…


San Francisco Raises Tesla ‘Self-Driving’ Safety Concerns as Public Test Nears

SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco transport authorities on Thursday raised concerns about the safety record of Tesla’s advanced driver assistant system, as the electric car maker prepared a wide release of a test version of the software that works on city streets and highways. The San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA) also disputed the name of the…