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AI search - Answer engine optimization - SEO - Google AI Overviews - Digital Markets ActThe rules of online search are changing
Artificial intelligence is transforming online search from a system of ranked links into AI-generated answers, forcing businesses, publishers and regulators to rethink digital visibility, traffic and competition.By The Beiruter -
China AI governance - WAICO - Xi Jinping - World Artificial Intelligence Conference - AI geopoliticsChina’s bid to lead the global AI order
Through a new international AI governance body and a call for greater international AI cooperation at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Beijing is positioning itself as an alternative leader in the global governance of artificial intelligence.By The Beiruter -
Sovereign AI - AI infrastructure - Foundation models - National compute capacity - CNAS Sovereign AI IndexThe race for sovereign AI
Governments are investing billions in national AI infrastructure, but a new index suggests technological independence remains far more elusive than political rhetoric implies.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - AI economy - AI infrastructure - Economic concentration - Data centersThe AI economy's petrostate problem
Artificial intelligence is giving rise to a new form of economic power, inviting comparisons with the political economy that once defined the world's oil-producing states.By The Beiruter -
China reusable rocket - Long March 10B - Reusable launch systems - SpaceX - Blue OriginChina's reusable rocket changes the space race
China's successful recovery of its first reusable orbital rocket marks a major technological milestone and intensifies competition in the rapidly expanding global space economy.By The Beiruter -
AI regulation - AI governance - Big Tech - Nell Watson - OECD AI PrinciplesCan big tobacco explain big tech?
As governments develop new rules for artificial intelligence, experts are debating whether the tobacco industry's history offers a useful framework for regulating today's largest technology companies.By The Beiruter -
Omar M. Yaghi - Tsinghua University - Scientific research - Nature Index - Nobel PrizeChina's pursuit of scientific talent
The recruitment of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi reflects a decades-long strategy to build world-class universities, attract top researchers and strengthen China's position at the forefront of scientific innovation.By The Beiruter -
AI - AI governance - Artificial intelligence - Anthropic - intellectual propertyThe AI dispute over model ownership
Anthropic's allegations that Alibaba extracted Claude's capabilities have brought new attention to one of artificial intelligence's least settled questions: who owns the knowledge embedded within frontier AI models?By The Beiruter -
AI infrastructure - Orbital data centers - Space data centers - Cloud computingCan data centers leave earth?
Once considered a futuristic concept, orbital data centers are attracting growing scientific and commercial interest as researchers investigate whether space could support the next generation of AI infrastructure.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - Generative AI - AI liability - AI regulation - Google AI OverviewsThe court ruling testing the limits of AI Liability
A German court's decision holding Google liable for defamatory AI-generated content is becoming one of the first major legal tests of corporate responsibility for AI-generated information as generative AI becomes embedded in everyday services.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - AI infrastructure - AI data centers - OpenAI - ChinaWhy China is targeting America's AI data center debate
A China-linked influence campaign targeting U.S. AI data centers highlights how data centers, electricity networks and cloud infrastructure are becoming strategic assets in the global competition for artificial intelligence.By The Beiruter -
Artificial intelligence - Generative AI - AI copyright - Creators' rights - AI training dataWho owns creativity in the age of AI?
As generative AI companies build multibillion-dollar businesses from systems trained on human-created content, a growing debate is emerging over whether the creators whose work made those systems possible should share in the value they generate.By The Beiruter -
Terra Instinct - Lebanon startups - Climate technology - Sustainability - Tech ecosystemBuilding for global markets from Beirut
A British founder's decision to build a climate technology company from Beirut highlights how Lebanon's greatest competitive advantage may lie not in the size of its market, but in the strength of its human capital.By The Beiruter -
Artificial Intelligence - AI Regulation - EU AI Act - AI Laws - Generative AIThe new rules of artificial intelligence
As governments race to regulate artificial intelligence, competing legal models are emerging that could shape the future of technology, innovation, and digital rights.
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Artificial Intelligence - AI ecosystem - Semiconductors - Nvidia - TSMCThe five layers of the AI economy
Behind the chatbots and software tools familiar to consumers lies an interconnected stack of energy, chips, cloud infrastructure, models and applications that together power the modern AI economy.By The Beiruter
