4 d. ago Kimi developer Moonshot shows China’s growing AI depth: US government report

Leading Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI has been singled out as evidence of the “growing depth” of China’s AI industry, according to a new US government report. An increasing number of Chinese companies were now developing world-leading “open-weight” AI models, not just DeepSeek, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the Department of Commerce said on Friday. The CAISI report was the second US government evaluation of a leading Chinese model developer, after...

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1 week ago Malaysian woman in skirt forced to buy trousers to enter police station

A woman who wanted to lodge a report after a traffic accident was barred from entering the Jasin police headquarters in Malaysia’s Melaka state due to a dress code violation, according to police. Melaka police chief Deputy Commissioner Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said an internal inquiry was held after the matter was brought to light. “We confirm the incident involving a woman being not allowed to enter to make a report due to non-compliance with the dress code for government premises as per a government...

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1 week ago Malaysian woman barred from police station over skirt length, forced to buy trousers

A woman who wanted to lodge a report after a traffic accident was barred from entering the Jasin police headquarters in Malaysia’s Melaka state due to a dress code violation, according to police. Melaka police chief Deputy Commissioner Dzulkhairi Mukhtar said an internal inquiry was held after the matter was brought to light. “We confirm the incident involving a woman being not allowed to enter to make a report due to non-compliance with the dress code for government premises as per a government...

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2 w. ago China spy case report criticises UK government and prosecutors as ‘shambolic’

China spy case report criticises UK government and prosecutors as ‘shambolic’  Financial Times

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3 w. ago ‘Internal affair’: China dismisses reported US mediation in Japan row

Beijing has warned against foreign interference in its internal affairs following reports that US President Donald Trump privately pressed Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to dial back her rhetoric on Taiwan. During a call on Tuesday, the US leader urged Takaichi not to provoke China, according to a Wall Street Journal report that cited government officials. While reportedly briefed on Takaichi’s domestic political constraints, Trump asked her to “temper” her tone, but stopped short of...

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4 w. ago ‘Too little, too late’: Former UK government slammed for initial Covid response

A public inquiry released on Thursday slammed the former UK government’s initial response to the coronavirus pandemic as “too little, too late”, and said the failure to lock down the country earlier “led to an unacceptable loss of life”. The inquiry, chaired by Heather Hallett, found that chaos at the heart of government and a failure to take Covid-19 seriously potentially cost 23,000 lives in the first wave of the pandemic. Hallett’s report on the government response to Covid-19 found that the...

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