By Gregory C. Allen, CFR: “China’s tech giant Baidu is unambiguously one of the global leaders in AI research, having developed an AI system with better-than-human speech recognition performance a year before any Western firm. China is not yet the overall leader in AI technology, but they are not far behind and catching up quickly.”
Russia Prepares for More Extreme Confrontations With the United States
By Pavel K. Baev, Eurasia Daily Monitor: “Whatever friendly feelings United States President Donald Trump might personally hold toward Moscow, the anti-Russian policy of his administration is even bolder than the course set in the last year of Barack Obama’s presidency.”