They're desperately trying to keep the Chinese models out, but I doubt they'll be successful. Chinese AI is mostly outcome-based, they train a bot to wash dishes, a drone to recognize an insect infestation, or mining machinery to find and follow a vein, and equipment purchased from China is going to come with their AI baked in. Sure, they'll play with chatbots and AGI, but most of their work is devoted to actually accomplishing something besides stock manipulation. Once Chinese AI is seeded throughout the economy in machinery and devices more advanced systems are going to follow.

A lot of Asimov's subsequent stories were about end runs around the Three Laws, enabling robots to do things they shouldn't.

That's the normal outcome of a legal system run by and for lawyers. I was once added (without my permission) to a class action suit against Seagate. We "won" a coupon for $15 off our next Seagate drive of 500 mb or less (a month after Seagate had stopped producing 500mb drives). The lawyers made $5,000,000.

Ticket scalpers are overcharging for tickets? Say it isn't so! Inconceivable! /s

At that point decent emergency healthcare in remote locations like the upper Andes, remote mining camps, container ships, and antarctic research stations becomes possible. Parachute the robot surgeon in to the site, set up the mobile operating theater, and carve away. For that matter, it would make sense to send one along on lunar and deep space missions, both as surgeons and general fetch-and-steps.

I had a friend who knew both Spanish and French. She decided to take up Portuguese because it was similar to both. At one point she got so confused she couldn't use any of the three!

A lot, if not most, gold trades never involve metals physically changing hands, any more than stock trades involve you handing over paper certificates. Generally if you're a large buyer you purchase the gold from an exchange and it sits in their vault where the neighborhood meth head can't get to it.

They also claim:

They're not going to be the first, China already will sell any friendly country advanced modern nuclear reactors which go into production only six years after ground breaking. The US, not being a friendly country (to anyone but billionaires, anyway), still relies on 70 year old technology for ours.

Oh? Didn't know that. They still make spring steel in Switzerland?

The info out of the Ukrainian MOD is even less reliable than that from the Kremlin, which isn't reliable at all. Both sides lie with abandon.

And Baba Yaga drones are mostly used on resupply missions for trapped troops.

And don't forget to include "board memberships for the family members of generals and admirals" among those incentives.

Middle-range drones are in use because anti-aircraft measures have gotten so good. Once they've been depleted you'll see single-use drones replaced by reusable aircraft dropping dumb bombs again, which Iran did during the height of the Usrael attacks and Russia occasionally does in lapses of NATO weapons shipments.

Pretty sure he means "made in" like a new VW can say "Made in the USA", but all the components were made in Germany, Mexico and China and it's just assembled here.

Of course, they're dedicated devices. Drones are cheap and easy to customize.