Daily Archives: Dec 17, 2025

James Thompson

China’s Space Ascendancy Accelerates: U.S. Faces Strategic Inflection Point

Rep. Mike Haridopolos set the tone at last week's House hearing with a pointed question: "Will humanity carry forward the American values of economic and political freedom or those of the Chinese Communist Party?" That question now hangs over Washington's space policy as China's surge in satellite, imaging and...
Charles Mitchell

US–China AI Infrastructure Gap: Speed and Power Risks Exposed

"How long can a nation lead in AI if it cannot build the infrastructure fast enough to run it? Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns bluntly that the United States risks losing its edge to China, not because chip design-in which the US remains "generations ahead"-but because of longer construction...
Charles Mitchell

AI’s 99.9% Doom Prediction Meets a Fractured Expert Consensus

The assertion of Roman Yampolskiy that artificial intelligence has a 99.9% likelihood of destroying civilization within the next century has sent shockwaves within the AI safety community. In a two hour interview with Lex Fridman, he pegged his claim on one unforgiving premise: no model that has been released...