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Geopolitics Heralds a Fragmented AI Future

Geopolitics Heralds a Fragmented AI Future

By Bolaji Ojo

What’s at stake: The world faces the risk of a fractured innovation ecosystem, with the potential for billions of dollars in lost sales, disrupted supply chains, and diverging standards threatening economic growth and technological progress worldwide. As China and America tighten export controls, their efforts to throttle each other’s AI ambitions may accelerate domestic innovation while undermining global collaboration and slowing breakthroughs that benefit health, industry, and society.

The escalating technological rivalry between China and the United States has created a world where the march of artificial intelligence (AI) is now dictated as much by political maneuvering as by technological ingenuity. The battle lines are clear: export controls, nationalist economic strategies, and mutual distrust have thrown the global AI industry into a cycle of uncertainty, regional segmentation, and strategic realignment.

What was framed as the unstoppable rise of transformative technology is caught in the crossfire of geopolitics, with the global economic future, and the very shape of AI’s social impact, hanging in the balance. The ultimate cost: a splintered future where innovative technology and its economic dividends are locked behind rising national barriers, leaving businesses, citizens, and researchers to navigate a high-stakes, unpredictable landscape.

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Renesas 365 Bridges Silicon-Systems Divide, Sets New Benchmark in Electronics

Renesas 365 Bridges Silicon-Systems Divide, Sets New Benchmark in Electronics

Ted Pawela, Vice President of Customer Success at Renesas, discussed Renesas 365 on Tech Vision with Bolaji Ojo, editor-in-chief of TechSplicit. Pawela highlighted the platform’s modular approach, allowing users to start with specific modules like discovery or detailed design. He emphasized the importance of collaboration and shared context among different teams. The platform will support over-the-air updates and fleet management, enhancing system lifecycle management.

Russian Kosmos 2553: Scientific Satellite or Weapon of Mass Destruction?

Russian Kosmos 2553: Scientific Satellite or Weapon of Mass Destruction?

By Steve Taranovich

What’s at stake:

Global powers are increasing their space-based capabilities over the next decade to secure their defense and economic interests. Creating a free-for-all environment presents unacceptable risks to global stability. Has Russia triggered the rush for unfettered space-based weapons systems?

Why did Russian Aerospace Forces launch the Kosmos 2553 satellite (to a highly unusual trajectory in a lonely orbit at 1,240 miles above the Earth) on February 5, 2022? Moscow tells the world they are testing their latest onboard instruments and systems. Given the lack of transparency about such programs, however, I am skeptical.

The United States Space Command is very interested in this Soviet satellite as it orbits the Earth every two hours in a “graveyard” orbit, a.k.a. the high-radiation “Van Allen belt,” a band where disposal or junk typically orbit, outside of common operational orbits.

Kosmos 2553 shares this particular orbit with 10 “dead” satellites that have floated within the belt for many years. The rarely used, high-radiation Van Allen belt circles planet Earth and satellites here eventually fall into the stratosphere and burn up. Why would Moscow put Kosmos 2553 in such an orbit around our planet?

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