Category: Editor’s pick
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Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday, marking the first time a Chinese head of state has personally inaugurated the event since its founding in 2018. The shift in protocol Xi previously sent congratulatory letters while Premier Li Qiang handled the opening ceremonies in 2024 and 2025 signals…
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Every major AI company now wants its agents talking to your tools, your data, and each other. What’s unusual is that the plumbing making that possible isn’t a competitive battleground the way most foundational tech infrastructure has been it’s converging into a shared, jointly governed standards stack faster than almost any comparable technology shift in…
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Defense planners across major militaries are rethinking what a soldier’s job actually looks like. For most of the past century, technology sped up how quickly a human could act better rifles, faster jets, more precise artillery. Artificial intelligence changes the more basic question of who, or what, does the acting in the first place. AI…