Microsoft's $1.5B Investment In UAE AI Firm With China Ties Raises Eyebrows Among Republican Lawmakers: 'Deeply Concerned By Attempts To Move Quickly'

Microsoft's $1.5 billion investment in UAE-based AI firm G42 has drawn criticism from Republican lawmakers due to the firm's historical ties to China, prompting calls for an intelligence assessment ... Read More

Google wants a piece of Microsoft’s cyber-security business

The firm sits at the intersection of two trends reshaping the cyber-security business. The first is computing’s inexorable move to the cloud. This year businesses will spend around $300bn worldwide on ... Read More

Microsoft staff in China must use iPhone for authentication, not Android phones

Microsoft staff in China have been told that they must use an iPhone for authentication when logging in to company systems. From September, the use of Android smartphones as multi-factor ... Read More

China News

VOA’s Natasha Mozgovaya reports. As Taiwan hosts annual military exercises this week, it is also holding air raid drills to raise public awareness about how to respond to an attack from China ... Read More

Congress must treat cheap goods from China as a national security threat

Moreover, by fueling China’s hegemonic ambitions, we expose the United States to significant national security threats ... at home because of these unfair business practices. Read More

Microsoft AI Deal With UAE’s G42 at Risk Over National Security Fears

Proponents of the Kenya project see it as a potential blueprint for similar government-business partnerships ... Central Asia where China is already firmly entrenched. Microsoft and G42 have ... Read More

IMF upgrades China’s 2024, 2025 GDP growth forecasts but warns of risks ahead

mitigating inflation risks and managing unfavorable debt dynamics” and welcomed the monetary policy steps China’s central bank has taken so far this year. Read More

WATCH: Why the U.S. must stand up to China’s attacks on freedom

Formulating effective and bipartisan policy to counter China is among the most difficult pursuits of the U.S. government. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi ... U.S. and the CCP. National Security Editor ... Read More

Industry News

The goals of the Biden administration’s technology policy. are to impede, cripple, and delay China’s development ... an Oklahoma-based commercial security integrator, which represents the ... Read More

Philippines Must Do More Than Protest China's Actions in South China Sea, Marcos Says

The countries' national security advisers ... the United States' business," Wu Qian, a spokesperson of the Chinese defence ministry, told a press briefing, using China's name for the Second ... Read More

NATIONAL SECURITY

The Georgian national was charged with scheming to have an associate dress up as Santa to hand out poisoned candy to Jewish and minority children in Brooklyn. Israel’s Netanyahu brings his dirty ... Read More