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From Tinder to running apps: Cellphones become a front for recruitment, spying, and sabotaging the enemy

22 September 2026 at 14:34

The alarms raised by the relationship between a Spanish NATO commander and a woman of Russian origin he met on Tinder, the dating app, are the latest chapter in a new espionage battleground: web applications. Sharing content on social media, posting your morning run, or looking for love online has become a latent risk for militaries around the world.

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A Polish soldier checks his cellphone in Kraków on August 5.

You fear it, I love it: the Trump–Xi summit will address AI with opposite mindsets

22 September 2026 at 14:33

Artificial intelligence will be one of the central subjects at the White House summit on Thursday between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the leaders of the two most powerful countries in the world and the ones that have made the most progress with that technology. Both governments view advances in these models as crucial to their economic and military competitiveness. The differences are not only geopolitical, but also in their nations’ mindsets. Their populations hold very different perceptions about the risks and benefits of AI: while a majority in the United States regard them with concern, in China they are embraced with enthusiasm.

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An engineer inspects robots at a training data center of AI company Spirit AI in Beijing
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