Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates’ ‘deeply troubling’ ties to China: excerpt from ‘Red-Handed’ by Peter Schweizer

Microsoft founder has whitewashed Chinese censorship of the internet and invested in industries essential to the Chinese military-industrial complex, from AI to nuclear power, according...

China Unveils AI News Anchor That’s Almost Indistinguishable From a Real Human

The AI developed by Xiaoice (Microsoft Asia) is capable of reading financial information, generating text and graphs, and synchronizing with the pre-trained virtual anchor without...

Biden administration places top Chinese military institute on export blacklist over its use of surveillance, ‘brain-control’ technology

Beijing is seeking to use emerging biotechnologies to support future military applications, including sponsoring research on gene editing, human performance enhancement, brain machine interfaces and...

Documents link Huawei to China’s surveillance programs

The new details on Huawei’s surveillance products come amid growing concerns in China, and around the world, about the consequences of pervasive facial recognition and...

We Spent a Year Investigating What the Chinese Army Is Buying. Here’s What We Learned.

Senators Demand TikTok Reveal How It Plans To Collect Voice And Face Data

In 2019, TikTok was fined nearly $6 million by the Federal Trade Commission for running afoul of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which requires...

How a fake network pushes pro-China propaganda

A sprawling network of more than 350 fake social media profiles is pushing pro-China narratives and attempting to discredit those seen as opponents of China’s...

TikTok Has Started Collecting Your ‘Faceprints’ and ‘Voiceprints.’ Here’s What It Could Do With Them

It’s really important for individuals like teachers and parents to be able to inform younger individuals who see TikTok as a fun way to engage...