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AMD is reporting record numbers this quarter, with overall revenue hitting eleven point five billion dollars, up fifty percent year over year. But buried in that headline is a telling detail: gaming revenue dropped thirty one percent, as consumers pull back from high-end hardware spending. The data center business is carrying the company now, and that shift says a lot about where the money in chips is actually flowing.
That hardware story connects to a broader question Foreign Policy is raising about America's AI strategy. The piece asks what happens if the United States bets everything on a winner-takes-all AI race with China and comes up short. With figures like Elon Musk and the major labs deeply entangled with policy, the stakes are political as much as they are technological.
And the costs of that AI acceleration are already visible in a troubling INTERPOL report out of Africa, where artificial intelligence now fuels more than half of all cybercrime across the continent. Deepfakes, automated phishing, synthetic fraud — the same tools being celebrated in boardrooms are being weaponized against some of the world's most vulnerable populations. The trade-off is real, and it's happening now.
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