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China is leading the world in adopting generative AI, a new survey shows, the latest sign the country is making strides in the technology that gained global attention after U.S.-based OpenAI's ChatGPT launched in late 2022. In a survey of 1,600 decision-makers in industries worldwide by U.S. AI and analytics software company SAS and Coleman Parkes Research, 83% of Chinese respondents said they used generative AI, the technology underpinning ChatGPT.That was higher than the 16 other countries and regions in the survey, including the United States, where 65% of respondents said they had adopted GenAI. The global average was 54%....

In October 2022, Konnech CEO Eugene Yu was arrested in Michigan in connection with “theft of personal data.” The alleged stolen data belonged to poll workers and was the subject of TrueTheVote’s “PIT” in Arizona last August, where Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips singled out the Michigan based company. During the PIT conference, Phillips and Engelbrecht alleged they were cooperating with the FBI in Michigan about data being sent overseas by this company. The investigation quickly started to turn on them after the FBI started to distance itself from the investigation for some strange reason. Journalist “incognito” Kanekoa covered this...

Much of the world has been transfixed in the last few days by a yellow notepad held by National Security Advisor John Bolton, which seemed to suggest that the US was considering military action against Venezuela. But in Taiwan, it was the map hanging behind him at the very same White House briefing that has captured much of the attention. The map at the Monday press briefing, presented by Bolton and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, made a distinction between the self-ruled island of Taiwan and mainland China. Beijing has in recent years wielded its economic power to pressure multinational companies...

Suppressed speech. Religious oppression. Suffocation of an independent press. An economy run by the state to serve the end goals of the state. Relegation of the individual to slavery. Sound familiar. You say: Communist Russia. You are wrong. Mainland China. From the end of World War II to the end of the 1980’s the United States stood with our Allies in Europe and around the world, waging a battle to contain and defeat the Soviet Union. Words such as “domino theory” and “red menace” came into the lexicon; words that today seem almost archaic. If history has taught us anything,...

Eastern China chemical spill kills 13 07/08/2002 Associated Press BEIJING - Liquid ammonia spilled from a burst pipe at a fertilizer plant in eastern China on Monday, killing 13 people and injuring 11, a local official and state media said. The ammonia pipe, located in a workshop at the Shenxian County Fertilizer Company in Shandong province, burst around 2 a.m., the official Xinhua News Agency reported. One person died on the spot, Xinhua said, and police and fire officials sent the injured to a nearby hospital. The exact causes of death were not immediately clear. It was not clear...