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In his address to the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on Friday, Chinese dictator Xi Jinping touted his authoritarian country as the global leader of the A.I. revolution, challenging the U.S. effort to develop rules and ethical standards for the new technology.

A new artificial intelligence model from Chinese company Moonshot AI named “Kimi K3” has matched the performance of America’s leading AI systems while offering significantly lower costs, raising questions about the United States’ technological advantage in the sector.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX aborted a planned test flight of its Starship rocket Thursday when several of the Super Heavy booster’s engines failed to ignite during the final countdown sequence at the company’s South Texas launch facility.

Netflix said Thursday its second-quarter profit grew thanks to new membership signups and price increases, which “had gone well and as expected.”

Elon Musk’s SpaceX stock price has fallen below its IPO price of $135, marking a significant downturn for Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company just over a month after it began trading publicly.

The New York Times has published a piece about Bernadette Meehan, who this year became CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia. The article praised Meehan’s background in diplomacy, serving primarily during the Obama and Biden administrations, and claimed the site was “in peril” from right-wing critics and AI with Meehan arriving to protect it. Despite mentioning Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, the piece fails to mention his ban from the site, which the Times covered.

OpenAI is reportedly working on a mobile smart speaker with AI capabilities as its first hardware device. Sam Altman’s screenless “companion” is designed to integrate with ChatGPT and provide personalized home AI services.

President Donald Trump speaks at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA, on Wednesday, July 15.

At first, everyone felt the need to huddle in the herd and condemn AI as anti-art, as a scourge on movie making, as dangerous and anti-human. Most of all, everyone’s scared of the all-powerful Hollywood unions that understandably fear that their tradesmen will be replaced by AI (because they will). No one wants to drive ahead of the headlights that will eventually reveal what the acceptable opinion is.

Breitbart News social media director Wynton Hall, author of the instant bestseller CODE RED, explained to Dr. Drew Pinsky that the race between the United States and communist China to control AI is not a mere marketing gimmick, because the winner will command both the global economy and the battlefield of the future.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta faces a federal lawsuit from 26 employees who claim the company’s AI systems targeted workers on medical, parental, or family leave for termination as part of the company’s massive lay off.

Breitbart News conducts live interviews at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA, on Wednesday, July 15.

Nvidia has reportedly created a stricter “whitelist” of verified companies in Asia, cutting its list of authorized customers by more than half in an effort to prevent advanced AI chips from being smuggled into China.

Global data center electricity consumption is projected to surge 26 percent this year, reaching 565 terawatt-hours as AI workloads push power demand to unprecedented levels, according to new forecasts from research firm Gartner.

A coalition of economists and researchers, including 15 Nobel laureates, has issued an urgent warning that AI could transform the global economy at an unprecedented pace, requiring immediate policy action to address potential widespread job displacement.

State Armor founder and CEO Michael Lucci is calling on leaders of three congressional committees to investigate whether China and other foreign interests are attempting to impede the development of infrastructure essential to America’s artificial intelligence capabilities.

Wiki Loves Pride, an event on Wikipedia celebrating Pride Month organized by an LGBT editor group, has produced hundreds of articles after promising cash prizes to editors. The event has been heavily promoted outside Wikipedia, including by the Wikimedia Foundation that owns the site. Promotion of the event happened in the same month site co-founder Larry Sanger was banned for similar conduct that editors claimed advanced right-wing views.

A technology journalist test-driving a Range Rover was surrounded by four police vehicles in a Minnesota parking lot after an automated license plate recognition system incorrectly flagged his vehicle as stolen due to a data entry error.

A-level names such as Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Caine, Matthew McConaughey, Darren Aronofsky, and Doug Liman have already jumped on board.

Organizations are increasingly relying on enthusiastic employees labeled “AI champion” to convince skeptical colleagues to embrace artificial intelligence technologies as internal resistance remains a significant barrier to implementation.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has removed a newly launched AI image generation tool from Instagram just days after its introduction, responding to widespread criticism over privacy and copyright issues. The feature allowed strangers to use images posted by unsuspecting users to create AI-generated pictures, leading to widespread criticism of the social media giant.

The LAPD is suspending a deal with Flock Safety, which operates license plate cameras, amid controversy over who should control the footage.

DirecDirector Christopher Nolan says young filmgoing audiences should be commended for “utterly rejecting” AI-generated video and embracing “more tactile, more real” filmmaking techniques.

Record companies are reportedly demanding that AI-generated songs be labeled as such on streaming platforms.

Phia, a shopping assistance startup co-founded by Bill Gates’ youngest daughter Phoebe, has been accused of improperly claiming credit for online sales it did not generate, according to testing conducted by multiple organizations and independent researchers.

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in federal court in Northern California, accusing the AI startup of stealing trade secrets and confidential information to develop consumer hardware products. According to Apple, the scheme involved staff “at every level” intent on hijacking Apple’s secret designs and tecehnology.

Microsoft’s Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been appointed to a Federal Reserve task force on jobs despite her main qualification seeming to be ordering mass layoffs at the software giant’s gaming division.

Chemist Omar Yaghi, a 2025 Nobel laureate for helping to develop new types of materials called “metal-organic frameworks,” has reportedly left the United States to become the leader of an AI research center at China’s Tsinghua University.

The European Commission announced Friday that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has breached the EU’s digital regulations due to addictive design elements on Instagram and Facebook that pose risks to user mental health.

Artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Google have been supplying advanced AI technology to subsidiaries of Chinese tech giants that appear on a Pentagon blacklist, revealing a significant loophole in America’s efforts to restrict Beijing’s AI development.

Argentina’s World Cup win over Egypt prompted criticism of referee Francois Letexier which was intensified by Wikipedia hoax edits made to Letexier’s article labeling him as Jewish, furthering antisemitic memes going viral. The hoax edits occurred even as the page was locked to prevent changes by new and unregistered editors. Social media posts from people fooled by the hoax went viral with the misinformation’s removal prompting similarly viral claims of a “cover-up” at Letexier’s page. The hoax content remained on Letexier’s page for eight hours.