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An Open Letter to The White House: How We Win the New AI Cold War

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In this release Ben Van Roo, founder and CEO of Yurts, shares his views on the current state of the AI landscape

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The current AI race between the U.S. and China is often viewed through the lens of the Manhattan Project’s initiative to build the atomic bomb—a nonstop sprint to the finish line before the enemy gets there.

That’s the wrong perspective. Unlike developing the bomb, getting there first doesn’t signal victory. And the race is really close. DeepSeek has already proven that Chinese technology is months, not years, behind the U.S. The central strategy to withhold technology from China via export controls isn’t working.

A better framework to understand the challenge ahead is the Cold War – a lengthy, strategic chess match that played out over decades. Winning is achieved through harnessing our national strengths in innovation to reimagine our workforce, institutions, and defense infrastructure for a new era.

The White House is correct in calling for the Development of an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan. The administration’s strategy must harness AI as a catalyst for positive economic transformation and integrate its benefits across our economy.

A new form of victory

As a nation, we focus on how to lead in AI innovation, adoption, and integration across all sectors of our economy and society. During the Cold War, the U.S. bolstered its commitment to freedom by developing the world’s most vigorous, thriving businesses and technological advancements. Early government investment in Silicon Valley laid the groundwork for the breakthroughs that continue today. National defense was a public/private partnership that built strong institutions and secured our national interests.

Winning will not be about defeating a common enemy but building a new American future that improves economic and civic life. While a strong national defense was critical, it was only part of our victory in the last Cold War.

Winning means empowering the next generation of scientists and researchers who can create breakthroughs that are only possible through the deep research and scale that AI provides. Winning can bring about long-sought modernization and reformation of our institutions to make them more efficient and responsive. The White House must prioritize a bold yet principled approach to empowering those building the AI breakthroughs of tomorrow.

Containment won’t win the war

Too much of our current AI strategy has been defensive. The DeepSeek story shows that relying on export controls is a fool’s errand. An elaborate black market with underground distributor networks, shell companies, and clandestine shipping routes has allowed Chinese companies to move fast. China’s domestic capacity at building new AI models, even if not at the highest levels of what those using the best Nvidia can offer, has given the nation near parity.

China’s managed economy gives it the advantage of rapidly mobilizing industries to reach a common goal. Our Cold War strategy must account for a competitor with a different model of government and economic incentives who can only be slowed, not stopped.

Relying on export controls to achieve permanent superiority in AI development is wishful thinking. We must make a national commitment to building the infrastructure and systems that will create winners across our economy and institutions.

Adoption and integration must be our focus
The U.S. won the Cold War by out-innovating, outproducing, and outorganizing its adversaries. We must take the same approach with AI. First, we must rapidly reskill our workforce for an era when many jobs will look dramatically different in just a few years. Federal policy must prioritize fostering talent pipelines that ensure the next wave of applications and use cases starts here.

Building a national effort behind AI is also the right way to ensure safety is a priority. AI moves too quickly for organizations to decide in silos when there are risks to mitigate. We need national consensus on best principles without the rigidity that would stifle new development.

Building infrastructure for transformation
Another helpful way to think about AI is how electrification transformed American life in the late 1800s. Initially a niche innovation, powering a few industrial applications and the homes of the wealthy, electricity expanded through government incentives, private investment, and, most importantly–a national vision to improve everyone’s life.

It took time for electricity to move from a select few to cities across America’s rural lands. But as it took hold, it changed life for the better–powering new industries, improving productivity, and lifting communities into a modern era.

AI has the same potential. Adversarial nations are making the AI Cold War a national priority. We must do the same—not with a regressive approach, but instead with a market-driven and coordinated strategy that will foster a new generation of economic, social, and defense benefits for all.

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LYKSTAGE Launches Patented Video Platform That Pays Creators and Viewers — Now Live Across Five Countries

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MUMBAI, India, April 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LYKSTAGE, a video-sharing platform owned by LYK Inc., a Delaware-based entity, and founded by New York-based entrepreneur Adris Chakraborty, is redefining how the creator economy works — with a patented monetization model no other platform can legally replicate.

Built by a technology team in India under Manhattan Tech Ventures, LYKSTAGE runs on a patented Watch-Time Monetization Model that fundamentally changes who earns from video content. Creators earn whenever their content’s watch time gets monetized — no subscriber minimums, no waiting periods, and no thresholds to cross before earning begins.

What makes the model unprecedented is that viewers earn too. Logged-in viewers are rewarded whenever their watch time gets monetized — when they watch content uninterrupted and the ad served during viewing is fully consumed. When that happens, the creator earns, the viewer is rewarded, and the platform earns. Every reward is funded by actual ad revenue — not venture capital subsidies. The model is entirely self-sustaining.

The platform serves both skippable and non-skippable ads, determined by an ad server algorithm that optimizes based on viewing patterns and content traction. For advertisers, impressions are served intelligently — matching the right ad format to the right moment, delivering higher completion rates and genuine attention.

LYKSTAGE is now live across five markets — India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the UAE — and available on Samsung TV, LG TV, Roku, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, desktop, mobile web, and native apps on both the App Store and Google Play Store.

Adris Chakraborty, a Kolkata-born Columbia Business School alumnus based in the US since 2003, co-founded Mediamorphosis Advertising & Technology Inc. in New York in 2006 with his spouse and business partner Poulami Mukherjee. The company expanded to the UK in 2012, followed by Manhattan Communications in India — building a multicultural advertising group spanning five countries with over 100 clients, providing LYKSTAGE with built-in advertiser relationships and market intelligence.

The platform has crossed over one million users across all markets, with more than 20,000 creators on board and growing across all five countries — achieved with minimal paid marketing.

LYKSTAGE is a transparent, patented system where the people who create the value are the ones who earn from it.

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Towngas and Tencent forge strategic partnership to drive “Energy + Tech” smart digital transformation

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HONG KONG, April 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas) and Tencent have signed a strategic partnership agreement in Hong Kong. The two companies will collaborate extensively on unified cloud resource management, digital platform development, large artificial intelligence (AI) models and applications, customer engagement enhancement, and R&D tool synergy. Together, they aim to drive the smart digital transformation of the energy sector.

The partnership dates back to 2020, when Towngas Lifestyle, the extended business division of Towngas, first teamed up with Tencent Cloud. In 2021, Towngas Energy, the Group’s renewable energy arm, worked with Tencent Cloud to build a smart energy ecosystem, which currently supports over a hundred integrated energy projects for the business segment. In 2023, Towngas Lifestyle and Tencent Cloud entered into a comprehensive strategic partnership spanning cloud platforms, big data, AI, and customer engagement, delivering one-stop lifestyle solutions to 46 million household customers across Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. This latest agreement marks a comprehensive, group-level strategic partnership between Towngas and Tencent. It is designed to pool their resources, achieve cross-divisional synergy, drive quality and efficiency gains, and accelerate AI innovation.

Over the past six years, this collaboration has yielded remarkable results. Powered by Tencent Cloud, Towngas Lifestyle has upgraded the digital foundation and driven application innovation for its Towngas Lifestyle Cloud (TLC) platform. Furthermore, leveraging Tencent Cloud’s TBDS (Tencent Big Data Suite), it built the Towngas Analytics Platform (TAP), which currently supports big data applications for over 70 affiliated city-gas companies as well as its Hong Kong operations.

In terms of AI applications, Towngas Lifestyle has capitalised on Tencent’s AI computing power and large model technology to launch innovative tools such as smart safety inspections and AI service agents, significantly boosting the efficiency of frontline staff at gas companies. To better serve its customers, the company has deeply integrated Tencent’s WeCom to improve customer outreach. On the R&D front, Towngas Lifestyle has widely adopted Tencent’s AI development tools to streamline workflows. Moreover, the partners have successfully replicated their mainland successes in Hong Kong, completing the cross-border deployment of the TAP platform and advancing the upgrade of the city’s business systems.

Mr Peter Wong Wai-yee, Managing Director of Towngas, said: “Tencent’s leading position in AI and digital technology is obvious to all. Since 2020, the two parties have established a strong partnership, expanding from Towngas Lifestyle’s extended business to cooperation on the smart energy platform for the renewable energy segment, and gradually extending from the mainland to Hong Kong. As an enterprise with a 164-year history, Towngas has grown to possess a customer base of over 120 million since entering the mainland gas utility business in 1994. Facing such a massive number of customers, data security is of paramount importance. How to build a secure and efficient system for management and service has become a critical issue for business development. We are confident in joining hands with Tencent to co-build a secure and efficient digital system, comprehensively elevate the customer service experience and operational efficiency, and jointly pioneer more possibilities for ‘Energy + Tech’.”

Mr Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent and CEO of Tencent Cloud and Smart Industries Group, stated that as a household brand in Hong Kong, Towngas’s “customer-centric” service philosophy aligns closely with Tencent’s corporate mission of “Value for Users, Tech for Good”. Over the past six years, Tencent has engaged in deep collaboration with multiple segments under Towngas, empowering businesses with technology to achieve precise operations. Tencent looks forward to taking this exchange as a new starting point, further consolidating the “Cloud + AI” technological foundation based on existing cooperation, and deeply integrating Tencent’s digital capabilities with Towngas’s rich application scenarios. Through technological innovation, the goal is to achieve better customer service delivery and enhance operational efficiency, exploring a new path to sustainable development for the smart upgrade of the energy industry while ensuring data security and user privacy.

Looking ahead, the two companies will continue to deepen their collaboration in migrating core businesses to the cloud, co-building digital platforms, deploying large models and AI applications, and enhancing customer engagement. This will not only deliver a superior experience for gas customers but also set a benchmark for the high-quality transformational development of the energy industry.

 

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DMEGC Solar Achieves EcoVadis Gold Medal, Underscoring Its Commitment to ESG Excellence

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JINHUA, China, April 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On April 15, DMEGC Solar, a global leader in magnetic materials and renewable energy solutions, achieved a milestone breakthrough in sustainable development. With outstanding performance in environmental protection, social responsibility, and other key areas, the company earned a Gold Medal from the internationally recognized rating agency EcoVadis, scoring 82 points. This places DMEGC Solar in the top 3% of all rated companies worldwide, surpassing 97% of participants.

EcoVadis is a globally leading sustainability assessment platform, having rated over 150,000 companies across more than 250 industries and 185 countries. Its evaluation framework covers 21 indicators across four core themes: Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement. The platform aims to assess the sustainability performance and social responsibility of companies within global supply chains.

DMEGC Solar participated in the assessment at the group level rather than as a single factory, demonstrating outstanding strength across all four dimensions. In the Labor & Human Rights dimension, the company has established a comprehensive employee rights protection system, strictly implemented occupational health and safety standards, and promoted employee development and career growth, ranking in the top 1% of its industry.

In the Sustainable Procurement dimension, the company has built a full-chain green supply chain management mechanism, collaborating with core suppliers to create a “cooperative carbon reduction” ecosystem. Initiatives such as packaging material recycling, green electricity usage, and localized collaborative production have enabled a low-carbon, traceable supply chain, also ranking in the top 1% of the industry.

Coupled with strong performances in environmental governance and business ethics, the company achieved an impressive score of 82, surpassing 97% of evaluated companies and earning the Gold Medal. This distinction places DMEGC Solar at the top in the global solar module manufacturers to receive such recognition.

This Gold Medal rating will for sure strengthen the company’s competitiveness in overseas markets. On one hand, its industry-leading ESG performance helps meet policy requirements related to sustainable supply chains, enhancing both the premium pricing of its products in international markets and its ability to secure orders. On the other hand, this recognition will boost customer and partner trust in the company’s brand, supporting the expansion of market share for its core products—such as photovoltaic modules, residential energy storage systems, and magnetic materials—while consolidating its market leadership.

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