The United States on Thursday announced a pact with allies to secure supply chains for minerals needed for artificial intelligence, hoping to secure a key resource as China quickly takes a lead.<\/p>\n
The United States signed an agreement on the supply chains with key Asia-Pacific allies concerned about China’s growing clout — Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Australia — as well as Israel.<\/p>\n
Dubbed the “Pax Silica,” adapting the Latin terms for peace and silicon, a key material in AI, the partnership aims to secure supply chains and ensure that the countries are not dependent on China.<\/p>\n
“Pax Silica is a new kind of international grouping and partnership — one that aims to unite the countries that host the world’s most advanced technology companies to unleash the economic potential of the new AI age,” a State Department statement said.<\/p>\n
The United States, which said other countries would join, was vague on the practicalities but said countries would work together to ensure timely supply chains.<\/p>\n
“We believe that this gathering and grouping matters because the global system is shifting from ‘just in time’ to strategically aligned,” said Jacob Helberg, the State Department’s undersecretary for economic affairs.<\/p>\n
“Pax Silica ultimately ensures that these countries have reliable access to the inputs and infrastructure that determine AI competitiveness,” he told reporters ahead of the signing.<\/p>\n
China has quickly taken a dominant position in the race for resources in the fast-growing area of artificial intelligence, mining around 70 percent of key rare earths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States on Thursday announced a pact with allies to secure supply chains for minerals needed for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,5984,37039,172192,3,8,452,453],"class_list":["post-343945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-india-news","tag-japan-earthquake","tag-japan-earthquake-news","tag-news","tag-pm-modi","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}