China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems

Chinese authorities are using artificial intelligence to turbocharge surveillance and censorship, with the technology predicting public demonstrations and monitoring prison inmates, according to a new ...
Interesting Engineering

Viral: China’s humanoid-like ‘spy robot’ caught on camera near Indian border

A viral social media video shows a stationary object near the Indian border that users claim is a Chinese humanoid ...

This AI convention center in China was designed by AI. Kind of

For the architects of a new venue at the heart of China’s push for AI supremacy, it seemed only fitting to use artificial intelligence in the building’s design.
PBS

Keeping a Swedish candle tradition alive

Alan Anderson makes traditional Swedish “grenljus” candles in Baraboo. Inspired by his Swedish family and a passion for making things, Alan Anderson makes a batch of traditional “grenljus” each year ...
Wall Street Journal

How a Chinese AI Company Worked Around U.S. Rules to Access Nvidia’s Top Chips

JAKARTA, Indonesia—President Trump made clear earlier this month that he doesn’t want Nvidia selling its most advanced artificial-intelligence chips to China. But inside a tall, windowless building in ...
Axios

Department store, bank, university building proposed as landmarks

see more of our stories on Google. Add Axios on Google The old Gilchrist's building, now the Corner Mall. Photo: Mike Deehan/Axios.