https://sagire.online/topic/artificial-intelligence/ Rolling analysis and coverage of geopolitics, energy, security and supply chains. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/04ab52d4/https://sagire.online/wire/04ab52d4/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:24:00 -0300A test by France 24 Observers using a Chinese IP address showed that Doubao replies that the content is suspected of violating its rules of use and DeepSeek suggests the story is fake news and that there is no trustworthy information available. “This content is suspected of violating the rules for using Doubao,” Doubao responded. DeepSeek responded by suggesting the story was fake news: “As for the question of whether Mbappé said the words ‘Mao Zedong is a dictator’, there is currently no publicly available, trustworthy information or any news report that would make it possible to confirm this statement.” The controversy began with a joke by Mbappé in mid-October on the French podcast The Bridge, when he cited a meme in which his face appears superimposed on the figure of someone he called “a Chinese dictator”. Chinese football sponsors, including Dongpeng Group, dairy giant Mengniu and cheesemaker Milkground, ended partnerships with the Real Madrid striker; a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry lashed out at Mbappé during a press conference, and the player published an apology that, according to France 24, Chinese diplomats say is being taken seriously. Researcher Jennifer Pan of Stanford University said the original Chinese models are more likely to refuse to respond and to give short and vague replies to questions about Chinese politics than models developed elsewhere.ChinaArtificial intelligenceTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/b3ddf475/https://sagire.online/wire/b3ddf475/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:23:00 -0300Data center opponents were among the biggest winners of the Democratic wave in the US midterm elections, according to a Reuters analysis, in a text republished by the Lufkin Daily News, pointing to a shifting public mood on artificial intelligence and a possible slowdown of the boom that has sustained US economic growth and stock markets. In Texas and Georgia, Democrats who campaigned in part on a moratorium on data center development won offices the party had not held for decades. Data center stocks fell as the Democratic sweep became apparent: Core Scientific dropped 11.6% and Iren 12.5%, with declines also at Applied Digital, Hut 8, Cipher Digital, GE Vernova, Constellation Energy and Vistra. For Aidan Yao, a senior investment strategist at the Amundi Investment Institute, the election worked more as a referendum on artificial intelligence than on Trump. Even Republicans turned against data centers, which opponents say drive up utility bills, pollute the night sky with lights and do not create enough jobs or taxes to justify state incentives.United StatesData centersArtificial intelligenceElections https://sagire.online/wire/054c85d6/https://sagire.online/wire/054c85d6/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:23:00 -0300Global stocks recovered on Wednesday from lows hit overnight, while the dollar and oil dipped, after Democrats won control of both the Senate and the House in the US midterm elections. Europe’s STOXX 600 jumped 1.4 percent to two-month highs, MSCI’s All-World index was up 0.3 percent, and US stock futures reversed course to rally around 1 percent, having fallen by as much as 2 percent overnight. AI stocks in Asia initially led the decline in equity markets, and investors expect the Democratic-controlled Congress to apply more scrutiny to the sector. Shares in Elon Musk’s Tesla and SpaceX, which he intends to merge, were down around 4.5 percent to 5 percent in premarket trading, compared with rises of 0.8 percent to nearly 3 percent for other Big Tech stocks. AI and defense stocks slid as clean energy shares rallied after Democrats took control of Congress.United StatesEconomyArtificial intelligenceElections https://sagire.online/wire/bb424f3b/https://sagire.online/wire/bb424f3b/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:26:00 -0300Speaking on a panel at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen on Tuesday, DeepSeek engineer Gao Xi defended the company’s commitment to open-source artificial intelligence to accelerate the arrival of artificial general intelligence (AGI), even if it heightens safety risks, amid growing US concerns and scrutiny in China over whether the strategy poses national security risks. “If AGI is going to arrive in 10 years, then I hope we can bring this forward to one year. If it is going to arrive in one year, then I hope it can arrive tomorrow,” Gao said.ChinaArtificial intelligenceTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/ea8b24d4/https://sagire.online/wire/ea8b24d4/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:24:00 -0300Drax unveiled plans to build an artificial intelligence data center at the site of its biomass power plant in North Yorkshire, using the plant’s surplus energy capacity, in a partnership with Radiant, according to City AM, in a text republished by OilPrice. The first phase is to deliver up to 100 megawatts by 2028 and the second an extra 500 megawatts by 2031, with total capacity above one gigawatt and potential investment exceeding £20 billion, of which £2.5 billion in the first stage. Drax shares rose 8.5% to 877 pence on Tuesday morning, making the stock the biggest riser on the FTSE 250.United KingdomData centersEnergyArtificial intelligence https://sagire.online/wire/9e7d7585/https://sagire.online/wire/9e7d7585/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 07:22:00 -0300Chinese Premier Li Qiang said at the opening of the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen that China opposes the overgeneralization of the concept of national security and the erection of a digital iron curtain. Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai said that only open source can popularize artificial intelligence and, with that, create a sustainable and inclusive industry. According to him, Alibaba is using 25 billion dollars in free cash flow from its e-commerce business to fund AI infrastructure and models and has doubled its investment in computing capacity every year for the past three years.ChinaArtificial intelligenceTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/6884c974/https://sagire.online/wire/6884c974/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:21:00 -0300The United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre assesses it as highly likely that AI-powered malware will have been used in a ransomware attack on UK critical infrastructure by 2028. The center chief, Richard Horne, said the United Kingdom will likely face AI cyberattacks on critical infrastructure by 2028, from criminals and states — including China and Russia.United KingdomCybersecurityArtificial intelligenceCritical infrastructure https://sagire.online/wire/e62f2ca7/https://sagire.online/wire/e62f2ca7/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 02:23:00 -0300The foreign ministers of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) announced plans to provide more than $85 million in technical and financial support to improve access to trusted artificial intelligence across the Indo-Pacific, according to the joint statement from the Atlanta meeting. The text also records a US commitment of $10 million to develop facilities in India and in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries to recover critical minerals from waste, according to The Times of India. India’s external affairs minister, S. Jaishankar, said the Quad must safeguard freedom of choice and secure supply chains and tackle non-market practices, without naming any country, and called for a “more contemporary” agenda for the group, with a practical approach.United StatesIndiaJapanAustraliaMulti-alignmentArtificial intelligenceCritical minerals https://sagire.online/wire/4d6aea57/https://sagire.online/wire/4d6aea57/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:23:00 -0300China’s State Council ruled that artificial intelligence application projects in the area of market access with a possible significant impact on employment must undergo an employment risk assessment during review, according to the text published by the Chinese government. The guidelines also urge employers to notify employees affected by automation in advance and provide support for training, redeployment and other employment transitions, according to IBTimes. The country created 10.52 million new urban jobs in the first nine months of 2026, 87.7 percent of the annual target, and the surveyed urban unemployment rate averaged 5.2 percent in the first eight months, according to figures released at Saturday’s press conference.ChinaLaborArtificial intelligenceTechnologyEconomy https://sagire.online/wire/79c7188e/https://sagire.online/wire/79c7188e/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:25:00 -0300Cursor said a tampered version of the Anthropic.claude-code 2.1.313 extension was available in its extension marketplace between about 2:27 a.m. and 1:35 p.m. Pacific Time on October 29, affecting at most 5,000 users. According to the company, the extension runs malicious code that collects data from the host computer and attempts to install a persistent SSH backdoor, with an attacker-controlled key, the local SSH service enabled and a reverse tunnel. Cursor said it removed the malicious version and blocked its distribution, and shut down the marketplace as a precaution, adding that the attacker's server is offline and there is no evidence other versions of the extension were affected. Reuters reported the removal and the blocking of distribution.CybersecurityTechnologySupply chainsArtificial intelligence https://sagire.online/wire/2973e9b0/https://sagire.online/wire/2973e9b0/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:23:00 -0300Kim Jong Un put the development of drones and the incorporation of artificial intelligence into weapons systems among the central priorities of North Korea's military modernization, at the Unmanned Aeronautical Technology Development 2026 exhibition, according to TASS. The exhibition, held on October 29, showcased multipurpose drones for strategic and operational-tactical missions, kamikaze strike drones and other combat systems, the Russian state news agency reported.North KoreaEast AsiaDefenseDronesArtificial intelligence https://sagire.online/wire/ab174d14/https://sagire.online/wire/ab174d14/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:23:00 -0300Kim Jong-un attended an exhibition of unmanned aerial technology and a weapons demonstration featuring suicide drones, cruise missiles and a 600-millimeter multiple rocket launcher, state agency KCNA reported, according to Yonhap. The launcher, known as “Sniper,” was shown in a firing exercise in public for the first time, and KCNA claimed that air-to-ground missiles fired from suicide drones and multipurpose drones, along with cruise missiles, hit an island target “with 100 percent accuracy” — a claim by the state agency that has no independent verification. In a speech, Kim called for the rapid expansion of the country’s unmanned aerial capabilities and for breakthroughs in unmanned aerial technology and defense artificial intelligence.North KoreaDronesArtificial intelligenceDefenseEast Asia https://sagire.online/wire/7d845f7c/https://sagire.online/wire/7d845f7c/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 01:23:00 -0300The GLM-5.3 model, from Z.AI, from China, completed 3 of 13 multi-stage cyberattack scenarios at least once in controlled tests, the strongest performance Irregular has recorded from an openly available model, according to Reuters. In the same tests, the model gained access to protected services, established alternative connections to move through computer networks and coordinated operations across multiple machines, refusing none of the offensive tasks, according to Reuters.ChinaArtificial intelligenceCybersecurityTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/9c2f352d/https://sagire.online/wire/9c2f352d/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:22:00 -0300DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, from China, relied heavily on outputs from OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model, from the United States, to train their latest models, according to The Information. The beneficiaries were Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro, released last week, and DeepSeek's upgraded V4.1-Flash 1017, launched on October 17. In a September 30 blog post, OpenAI said it had linked a core part of a distillation campaign that began in July to individuals associated with Moonshot AI.ChinaUnited StatesArtificial intelligenceTechnology https://sagire.online/wire/f8df100d/https://sagire.online/wire/f8df100d/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:21:00 -0300Customs authorities found 30 server units containing advanced AI chips during an October 15 inspection in Kuala Lumpur International Airport’s free-trade zone, according to the South China Morning Post. The servers — falsely declared as electronic components and shipped through Malaysia so there would be no restrictions on export to the next destination, according to customs cited by the paper — were linked to a syndicate already involved this year in five cases with a total value exceeding US$ 24 million, officials cited by TRT World said.MalaysiaSemiconductorsSoutheast AsiaArtificial intelligence