The Trump administration's new AI safety assessment framework, shared with industry leaders in a closed-door White House briefing on Tuesday, applies only to proprietary AI models and exempts open mod…
The Trump administration is preparing restrictions on imports of Chinese optical transceivers used in data centers supporting AI workloads, with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) developing …
Shares of China's leading optical-module makers rebounded on Wednesday after analysts downplayed the impact of proposed US restrictions that could block future American AI data centre sales. Zhongji I…
The Trump administration's voluntary AI testing framework, created after President Trump signed an executive order in June, excludes open models and fails to define 'state-of-the-art' or 'national sec…
The S&P 500 rose 1.8% Tuesday to a record closing high of 7736.52, led by tech shares after Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet reported strong quarterly results, with Palantir Technologies soaring 29.5% …
The Trump administration met with tech leaders on Tuesday to finalize a security review process for advanced AI models before release, but it will reportedly apply only to closed models from developer…
Mistral released Shieldstral, a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that treats content moderation as question-answering, allowing operators to define policies at inference time without retra…
Intel shares jumped 10% on August 4, 2026, to close at $99.74, lifting the broader chip sector and increasing the paper value of the U.S. government's 10% stake in the company to more than $40 billion…
National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross said at the Black Hat 2026 conference in Las Vegas that the Trump administration's AI executive order aims to balance security and innovation without new regula…
The Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new Chinese optical transceivers for data centers, according to four people familiar with the matter. The Federal Communications Commissio…
The Trump administration told AI developers on Tuesday that it will not put open-weight AI models through voluntary safety tests, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. The decision, …
Enrollment in Affordable Care Act plans fell by nearly 3 million to about 19.2 million in 2026, and the Trump administration credits its fraud control efforts, but policy experts say the drop is due t…
The Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of Chinese-made optical transceivers, a critical component in data centers powering AI, according to Reuters. The Federal Communications Comm…
The Trump administration finalized a voluntary AI oversight framework on August 4, 2026, but will keep the evaluation rubric confidential, sharing it only with companies like Anthropic, Google, Meta, …
Five Senate Democrats, including Kirsten Gillibrand, Adam Schiff, Mark Warner, Christopher Coons, and Mark Kelly, sent a letter on Monday demanding the Trump administration explain its policies on acc…
PJM Interconnection accepted 715 of 811 proposed power projects into the first cycle of its reformed interconnection process, with energy storage leading at 314 projects and 60.0 GW, followed by natur…
The Trump administration discussed sanctions and cloud bans targeting Chinese open-source AI models, according to the New York Times, but backed off after pushback from Nvidia, Google, and Meta, while…
The Federal Trade Commission issued a sweeping ban on foreign imports of advanced robots, including humanoids, quadrupeds, and wheeled robots, marking an expansion of the Trump administration's AI pro…
A new nonprofit, the Technology Freedom Cooperative, is building human rights computing infrastructure in Puerto Rico, the EU, Canada, and Mexico to help Americans and others escape reliance on US tec…
The Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new models of Chinese data center components, specifically optical transceivers, according to four sources familiar with the matter. The F…