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Taiwan Plans $930 Million Sea Drone Buildout As China Expands Maritime Pressure Taiwan is moving quickly to build a large fleet of unmanned vessels as it looks for cheaper, scalable ways to complicate any Chinese attempt to blockade or cross the Taiwan Strait, according to Nikkei Asia. The emerging strategy combines something Taiwan already does well, building ships and sophisticated electronics, with American expertise in autonomous systems, artificial intelligence and military command networks. The potential scale is significant. Taiwan’s navy is considering roughly 1,320 small attack drones for the water, with spending...

The Most Important AI Experiment You've Never Heard Of Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times, In May 2026, a group of scientists set out to answer an important question that had never been properly tested: What does artificial intelligence (AI) actually do when it is put in charge? Until now, AI systems have always been evaluated on specific and defined tasks. Nobody had placed multiple AI systems together in a shared social environment and watched what unfolded over weeks, long enough to measure how a decision made on a starting...

People Are Seeing More Fireballs; Astronomers Can't Explain It... Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Just as it faces an annual hurricane season and tornado season, North America is also experiencing an annual “fireball season,” according to NASA. “From February through April, the appearance rate of these very bright meteors can increase by as much as 10 percent to 30 percent, especially around the weeks of the March equinox,” NASA explained in a statement in late March. ”Exactly why is not known. Some astronomers think the Earth passes through more large debris...