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When Hong Wang and Yu Deng received Fields Medals at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia on July 23, they became the first citizens of the People’s Republic of China to hold mathematics’ highest honor in its 90-year history. Wang is also only the third woman ever to receive it, after Maryam Mirzakhani and The post China’s Fields Medals triumph raises bigger math questions appeared first on Asia Times.

“[I]ntelligence, that counterentropic conjoined twin of information, must become the most powerful force in the universe, the energy to which all other physical laws must eventually kneel…Intelligence was destiny, manifest.” — Ian McDonald, “Verthandi’s Ring” Not a lot of people expected that AI would come for the mathematicians before it came for the truck drivers, The post AI’s ceiling: intelligence, too, faces diminishing returns appeared first on Asia Times.

China’s latest sea-based rocket launch shows how mobile launch platforms, onboard artificial intelligence and expanding commercial constellations are converging into a broader Chinese effort to strengthen military resilience, accelerate satellite deployment and compete for economic influence across an increasingly contested orbital domain. This month, multiple media outlets reported that Chinese commercial launch provider Orienspace successfully The post China takes satellite race with SpaceX to sea appeared first on Asia Times.

Last week was a momentous one for Ukrainian democracy, and possibly for how the war develops over the next period. After two and a half years, overall command of the Ukrainian army was transferred from General Oleksandr Syrskyi to General Mykhailo Drapatyi. The move was greeted with uniform praise from Ukrainians I know and trust The post Ukraine’s worst week becomes much better, but not the best appeared first on Asia Times.