Forbes

Former Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, who now works for Club for Growth, has spent time on Capitol Hill lobbying on behalf of TikTok. Jeff Yass, a billionaire and one of the biggest donors to Club for Growth, owns a 15% stake in ByteDance.

NIKKEI ASIA

Pentagon's 0.9% budget growth pales in comparison to China's 7.2%

Popular Mechanics

China is reportedly building a fourth aircraft carrier, making it the second largest carrier power behind the United States.

Newsnation

“There have been communication devices that have been found on the cranes. They can be remotely controlled,” Alperovitch said. “First of all, for intelligence collection purposes, you can use it to figure out what is going on in a port. And then you might have the ability to actually destroy that infrastructure and prevent logistics, for example, from flowing into the Indo-Pacific if there’s some sort of conflict with China.” The report comes amid an announcement from the Department of Justice revealing a former Army intelligence analyst has been indicted on six counts for sharing confidential information with China, and a former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China.

YOUTUBE

It is one thing to see funny deepfakes in Instagram Reels, and it is another to receive a message saying that your face has been reused for propaganda purposes in China...

NEWSWEEK

China is building a vast, AI-based intelligence platform dubbed "Supermind" to track millions of scientists and researchers around the world

Washington Times

President Xi Jinping is accelerating funding for AI weapons development projects in China‘s army, navy, air force and Rocket Force.

South China Morning Post

Her AI cloned photos and videos were released Chinese Xiaohongshu, dubbed in Mandarin, with no consent.

Reuters

Last month, China's government dismissed repeated complaints by Taiwan about the balloons, saying they are for meteorological purposes and should not be hyped up for political reasons.