Topic: Xfort Ai

A Chinese tech company, Xfort AI, won a global competition sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for facial recognition technology that works even when subjects are wearing masks. This technology is already widely used in China's Xinjiang region to monitor the Uyghur minority. The U.S. government's sponsorship of such technology is criticized as a step toward a permanent biosecurity state.