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Elon Musk Creates New AI Company

Elon Musk Creates New AI Company

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has founded an artificial intelligence (AI) company called X.AI that would reportedly rival ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, according to Nevada business records....

Computers & internet

N. Korea Fires Possible ‘New Type’ Ballistic Missile

N. Korea Fires Possible ‘New Type’ Ballistic Missile

South Korean news outlet YTN, citing a military official, reported that North Korea on Thursday possibly test-fired a 'new type' of medium-range or longer ballistic missile, which, according to Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew for about 1K km (621 miles) before landing in waters between the Ko...

North Korea

China Allegedly Jails Two Human Rights Lawyers

China Allegedly Jails Two Human Rights Lawyers

Two prominent Chinese human rights lawyers, Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi of the civil rights group New Citizens' Movement, were reportedly convicted of 'subversion of state power' and sentenced to over a decade in prison, according to one of the men's wives. However, a PRC court official said it was...

New Zealand

Taiwan Claims Ten Chinese Aircraft Crossed Strait Median Line

Taiwan Claims Ten Chinese Aircraft Crossed Strait Median Line

Taiwan's defense minister on Saturday sent combat aircraft to warn away nine Chinese fighter jets and one military drone that crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait in the 24 hours to 6am, while Taiwanese missile systems monitored them....

Taiwan

Taiwan Pres. Tsai Ing-wen Visits New York

Taiwan Pres. Tsai Ing-wen Visits New York

During a stop on her way to Central America, Taiwanese Pres. Tsai Ing-wen visited New York City. At a closed-door speech on Wednesday night, she reportedly said US-Taipei relations were 'closer than ever' and touted 'significant progress' in economic and security cooperation....

Taiwan

Former Taiwan President to Make Historic China Visit

Former Taiwan President to Make Historic China Visit

Taiwan’s former president, Ma Ying-jeou, will visit China next week in what will be the first trip of a sitting or former Taiwanese leader since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949 amid strained relations between Beijing and Taipei....

Taiwan

China to Re-Open Borders to Tourists for First Time in Three Years

China has fully reopened its borders to foreign tourists for the first time since the outbreak of COVID three years ago. Its embassy in the US released a statement saying Beijing would resume issuing all categories of visas....

COVID-19

China Reports 60K COVID Deaths in December

China Reports 60K COVID Deaths in December

On Saturday, following intense scrutiny, China reported 60K deaths attributed to COVID since Dec. 8. The World Health Organization showed extreme concern that the country was underreporting after official reports only showed 36 deaths between Dec. 7 and Jan. 8....

COVID-19

China Announces Military Spending Increase

China Announces Military Spending Increase

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has announced a rise in the nation's military spending by 7.2% and an official GDP growth target of about 5% for 2023. The news opened the Chinese Communist Party-led parliament's annual meeting on Sunday....

China

Bangladesh Shuts Down Main Opposition Party Newspaper

Bangladesh Shuts Down Main Opposition Party Newspaper

The Dainik Dinkal, a newspaper run by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) for more than three decades, has been shut down after a government suspension originally ordered on Dec. 26 was upheld by the country's Press Council....

Metaculus

China: Retirees Protest Plan to Cut Health Benefits

China: Retirees Protest Plan to Cut Health Benefits

Hundreds of Chinese retirees in Wuhan and the northeastern city of Dalian demonstrated for a second time on Wednesday to protest government cuts to their medical benefits. This comes weeks before the annual National People's Congress, which will result in the PRC's new leadership....

China

UK MPs: HSBC Complicit in Violating Rights of Hong Kong Expats

UK MPs: HSBC Complicit in Violating Rights of Hong Kong Expats

A probe by UK peers and MPs has concluded that HSBC is complicit in allleged human rights abuses by complying with China's directive to prevent overseas citizens of Hong Kong from withdrawing pension contributions from the city's Mandatory Provident Fund....

Metaculus