Xi Says "Global Order Crumbling Into Disarray" As Trump Turns Up Pressure Campaign On China

While Israeli officials continue to try to present their ongoing war in Lebanon as aimed exclusively at attacking Hezbollah, the focus is increasingly on religion-driven forced population in southern Lebanon, and the destruction of Shi’ite villages. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz was quite open about that being a long-standing military goal, saying “it was clear […]

662 Billion Reasons To Worry: Moody's Raises AI Data-Center Funding Fears As Apollo Shops Huge Anthropic Debt Deal Unless you have lived under a rock for the last year (or month), you will know that the explosive growth of artificial intelligence is fueling a massive infrastructure buildout. In a chart book published nearly simultaneously with Moody’s report, Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok worked to put the enormity of data center spending into perspective. With total capital expenditure on data centers estimated at roughly $646 billion, or about 2% of U.S. GDP, Slok noted that is...

A Brain That Can Swap Bodies: Google DeepMind Aims To Be The 'Android' Of Robotics Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2 on Wednesday, a suite of three AI models that gives humanoid and other robots whole-body control, sharper manipulation, and the ability to work together. The system can run locally on the robot itself and adapt to an entirely new machine body with a few hours of training data. DeepMind is pitching it as the "intelligence layer" for robots - the foundational operating system that every hardware maker builds on. Rather...