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Alex Wiliam

China's DeepSeek deals early blow to Trump’s AI dream

When a start-up using 2,000 old Nvidia chips produced a ChatGPT rival for $6mn, investors took around $1tn out of the big US tech firms. Donald Trump called it 'a wake-up call'. Never a truer word.

Abdulfattah Khattab 05 February 2025
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Deepseek disruption embarrasses American AI

Last week, Chinese start-up company Deepseek disrupted the AI market with the launch of its R1 model. Upon the launch of its AI chatbot, the company revealed in a research paper that it spent only …

Al Majalla - London 04 February 2025
Sebastien Thibault

Will Stargate give America an AI advantage over China?

A $500bn project involving key industry players is designed to build the gargantuan infrastructure needed to support the expansion of the AI revolution. For the US president, it is also about winning.

Marco Mossad 01 February 2025

China's DeepSeek AI crushes the competition

Fares Garabet 30 January 2025
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Chinese AI is catching up, posing a dilemma for Donald Trump

The success of cheap Chinese models threatens America's technological lead

The Economist 27 January 2025
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Can technology save a world hurtling toward disorder?

It's the exact wrong moment in history for nations to stop cooperating—but AI might yet help us

Michael Hirsh 11 January 2025
In a conversation with Al Majalla, the chatbot says it's not truly aware of its own existence even though it can talk about it as if it were real. Shutterstock

A philosophical conversation with a very self-aware ChatGPT

Al Majalla asks the popular chatbot who it is and how it thinks and suggests a more personable name for it. The discussion touches on identity and philosophy and shows the tech's scope.

Abdel Salam Ben Abdelali 28 November 2024
Diana Estefanía Rubio

AI in the military: A lucrative industry that comes with great risk

Military applications of AI have become increasingly in demand, with more countries seeking specialised AI processors and boosting their spending on research and development of AI applications in…

Al Majalla - London 19 November 2024
Nicola Ferrarese

Will artificial intelligence soon run central banks?

Using this powerful new technology to crunch data, produce forecasts, and detect risks seems like a no-brainer for our economies' custodians. How they do so is the question.

Toufic Chanbour 18 November 2024
Grace Russell

The promise and danger of AI in the military

Militaries around the world will face competitive pressures to increase their reliance on AI, but to avoid catastrophe, its use must be guided by laws, rules, and norms

Bilal Saab 09 November 2024
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Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

The UN is dead: Chemillier-Gendreau on the collapse of international law

13 January 2026

In an interview with Al Majalla, the prominent French jurist discusses Israeli and Western duplicity, their violation of international law, and why Israel bears the cost of Gaza's reconstruction

Elie Kossaifi
Opinion

Would a US strike on Iran hurt or help protesters?

11 January 2026

A strike could be disastrous for the protestors, as it could harden the regime's resolve and that of its still-large support base across the country

Bilal Saab
Al Majalla
Politics

The Donroe Doctrine and the new hemispheric order

12 January 2026

Pressure builds on Venezuela after Trump appoints himself 'acting president'. With Colombia, Mexico and Cuba seemingly also in the line of fire, they will be closely watching what happens in Caracas.

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra
Yasser Al-Rumayyan, Governor of the Public Investment Fund, delivers a speech during the third edition of the Future Investment Initiative, in Riyadh on 28 October 2025. AFP
Business & Economy

Saudi Arabia loosens restrictions on foreign investors

12 January 2026

Scrapping foreign ownership caps and qualifying criteria will bring in more capital, with markets reacting positively to the latest reforms that build towards a more open country

Sharif Mohammad
Andrei Cojocaru
Politics

Trump’s war on CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood

18 December 2025

The US designates the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan as "terrorist" groups, citing alleged support for "activities against Israeli interests in the Middle East" as the reason

Abdullah F. Alrebh

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