Taiwan opens door to Starlink – but now it must wait to see if Elon Musk is ready to enter
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Taiwan opens door to Starlink – but now it must wait to see if Elon Musk is ready to enter

Taiwan has cleared the way for overseas satellite internet providers such as Starlink to operate on the island – a move analysts said could strengthen military and civilian communications if conventional networks were disrupted in a conflict with mainland China. On Tuesday, the island’s legislature approved an amendment to the Telecommunications Management Act that would exempt satellite communica...

Philippines taps combat veteran to lead armed forces amid regional tensions

Philippines taps combat veteran to lead armed forces amid regional tensions

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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr has appointed army chief Lieutenant General Antonio G. Nafarrete as the next head of the armed forces, placing a veteran of the country’s internal conflicts in charge before a sensitive election in the Muslim south and amid continued maritime tensions with China. The choice points to continuity in security policy and puts the Armed Forces of the Philippine...

Zhipu shares surge 37% as firm builds giant data centre powered by Chinese chips

Zhipu shares surge 37% as firm builds giant data centre powered by Chinese chips

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Shares of Chinese AI giant Z.ai soared 37 per cent in Hong Kong on Tuesday to close at HK$1,219 (US$155), after the company recently completed a giant data centre powered entirely by Chinese chips. Also known as Zhipu, the firm’s share prices rebounded after a week-long drop of more than 40 per cent. According to people familiar with the matter, it had built a giant 1-gigawatt (GW) AI computing ce...

Z.ai shares surge 37% as firm builds giant data centre powered by Chinese chips

Z.ai shares surge 37% as firm builds giant data centre powered by Chinese chips

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Shares of Chinese AI giant Z.ai soared 37 per cent in Hong Kong on Tuesday to close at HK$1,219 (US$155), after the company recently completed a giant data centre powered entirely by Chinese chips. Also known as Zhipu, the firm’s share prices rebounded after a week-long drop of more than 40 per cent. According to people familiar with the matter, it had built a giant 1-gigawatt AI computing centre ...

Trump administration sought phone records of New York Times journalists and their relatives

Trump administration sought phone records of New York Times journalists and their relatives

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Officials sought identity of sources ‘long before’ reporters wrote about the president’s Air Force One jet from QatarDonald Trump’s administration sought phone records of several New York Times journalists and even those of some of their relatives, according to a motion unsealed Monday – an unusually aggressive attempt to unmask the confidential sources of reporters who wrote about the president’s...

Europe’s incoherent ‘China threat’ posture is a threat to itself

Europe’s incoherent ‘China threat’ posture is a threat to itself

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The China threat has landed in Brussels. A new European Union position paper accuses Beijing of amplifying security threats, posing “a critical long-term strategic challenge” and reviving “sphere-of-influence logic” to reshape the global order. Beijing is cast as an enabler of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while its “assertive behaviour” in the South China Sea threatens European and Indo-Pacific s...

Andy Burnham says his will be a ‘cost-of-living government’ in first cabinet meeting as PM – UK politics live

Andy Burnham says his will be a ‘cost-of-living government’ in first cabinet meeting as PM – UK politics live

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The new prime minister said he wants his government to look at ‘all possible ways’ to help families with high costsBurnham to cut VAT on electricity bills in first cost-of-living moveAntónio Costa, the president of the European council, said in a post on X that he held a “good” phone call with Andy Burnham last night, in which he said they agreed to “further strengthen” EU-UK relations and continu...

ハマスが新たに最高幹部を選出 親イラン・強硬姿勢維持か

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パレスチナのガザ地区を実効支配するイスラム組織ハマスは、イスラエル軍の攻撃でおととし死亡した最高幹部の後任を選んだと発表しました。イスラエルのメディアは、新しい最高幹部のもとでハマスが強硬な姿勢を維持するという見方を伝えています。

Chinese AI agent Qiushi Engine outperforms Anthropic’s Claude Code in autonomous research

Chinese AI agent Qiushi Engine outperforms Anthropic’s Claude Code in autonomous research

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A Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) system has topped an international ranking for autonomous scientific research, pulling ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Code and other top agents. As of Tuesday, the Zhejiang University-led Qiushi Engine held the top overall spot on the ResearchClawBench leaderboard, with Open Science Desktop in second and Claude Code in third. ResearchClawBench tests the ability ...

Chinese AI agent outperforms Anthropic’s Claude Code in autonomous research

Chinese AI agent outperforms Anthropic’s Claude Code in autonomous research

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A Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) system has topped an international ranking for autonomous scientific research, pulling ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Code and other top agents. As of Tuesday, the Zhejiang University-led Qiushi Engine held the top overall spot on the ResearchClawBench leaderboard, with Open Science Desktop in second and Claude Code in third. ResearchClawBench tests the ability ...