The U.S. Commerce Department proposed new export controls to block remote access to advanced AI chips in China, targeting the compute-as-a-service loophole. This shifts U.S.-China tech competition fro…
SK Hynix broke ground on a more than $4 billion advanced packaging facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first U.S. production base for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips critical to AI systems. CEO…
The U.S. Commerce Department reported that prices rose 3.7 percent in July compared with a year earlier, unchanged from the previous month and above the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target. Inflation h…
The prospect of U.S. import tariffs could push copper prices to record highs even though there is no global shortage of the metal, analysts say, as the incentive to ship to the United States drains in…
Nvidia's H200 AI chips are quietly entering China through gray-market channels despite U.S. export controls, with volumes in the hundreds, enough for cluster bring-ups and inference optimization but n…
ByteDance and Tencent have each received roughly 10,000 Nvidia H200 AI accelerators in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the shipments cited by the Financial Times and reported by Tom's …
China has approved ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips each, with Alibaba also winning approval, marking a reversal from Beijing's earlier push toward Huawei's Ascend chips. The U…
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch warned the French National Assembly in May that Europe has roughly two years to build its own AI infrastructure or risk becoming a 'vassal state' dependent on American techno…
A June 2026 IBM Institute for Business Value study of 1,000 senior executives found that 91% do not fully understand their AI vendor dependencies, 71% said switching providers would be difficult, and …
Nvidia Corp., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Meta Platforms Inc. and more than a dozen other tech firms published an open letter urging U.S. policymakers not to ban open-source artificial intelligence mo…
The U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic on June 12 to prevent all foreign nationals from accessing its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 large language models, citing national security concerns under…
Chinese President Xi Jinping declared at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai that AI development should be a global collaboration, not dominated by a single country, and announced…
TSMC, the world's main producer of advanced AI chips and a major Nvidia supplier, pledged on Thursday to invest an additional $100 billion in Arizona, boosting its total planned U.S. investment to $26…
The United Arab Emirates has secured expanded access to advanced U.S. AI chips after aiding in military operations against Iran, with the U.S. Commerce Department moving the UAE to its highest export …
The U.S. Commerce Department is preparing new regulatory actions on artificial intelligence and semiconductors, senior official Jeffrey Kessler confirmed Tuesday, saying the Trump administration will …
U.S. Commerce Department official Jeffrey Kessler said at a hearing on Tuesday that regulatory action on artificial intelligence and semiconductors is coming, noting the Trump administration does not …
China's exports surged 27% in June to a record $412 billion, driven by a 57% jump in electronic components and AI hardware trade, the General Administration of Customs reported. The AI infrastructure …
Huawei is reportedly building a 12-inch DRAM wafer plant in Shenzhen, China, with a projected capacity of 140,000 wafers per month, in partnership with local memory chipmaker Swaysure and with support…
The U.S. Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to shut down its most powerful AI model, Claude Fable 5, to all foreign nationals, forcing the company to turn it off for all users worldwide just three …
Liberty Mutual Insurance adapted to the temporary suspension of Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model by using its internal AI resources, including LibertyGPT, after a U.S. Commerce Department directive over n…