After Jensen Huang’s Mar-a-Lago visit, Trump halts new Nvidia H20 controls: Report
When the Big Tech CEOs attended President Trump’s inauguration, there was one major figure missing: CEO and cofounder Jensen Huang. But since then, Nvidia has been exposed to the chaotic forces of Tr...
Traders aren’t acting as if there’s still a trade war with China
An odd thing is happening amid frenzied buying of US stocks following President Donald Trump’s decision to water down reciprocal tariffs for 90 days for nonretaliating countries — a group which obviou...
Ives: Tariff pause “pulls stocks and the market from the edge,” but China remains the X factor for Apple
Dan Ives, the high-metabolism tech analyst at brokerage firm Wedbush Securities, is first to our inbox with a reaction to the president’s announcement that he would simultaneously hike tariffs on Chin...
Apple soars as Trump pauses tariffs — but there’s a huge China issue here
stock jumped as much as 12% today, soaring higher after the announcement that President Trump would put a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs on its trading partners. The problem for Apple is that the ...
US stocks swiftly pare gains as White House confirms 104% tariffs on China
US stocks are falling out of bed, with the S&P 500 completely retracing an advance of 4% on confirmation that an escalating trade war is indeed happening. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt ...
More Americans than ever oppose the TikTok ban, as it’s pushed back once again
On Friday, President Trump granted a 75-day extension for TikTok’s divest-or-ban deadline, giving parent company ByteDance until mid-June to find a new owner in the US — the second delay since the Sup...
TikTok gets another lifeline as Trump delays the app’s divest-or-ban deadline — again
President Trump delayed TikTok’s breakup deadline for another 75 days on Friday, giving the viral video app over two months to split from Chinese parent ByteDance or get banned in the US. The app had ...
Intel dives on China risk, downbeat analyst view on TSMC deal
Shares of struggling US semiconductor icon tumbled sharply on Friday, a day after a headline-driven surge made it one of the only bright spots in the tariff-battered US markets. On Friday, Intel succ...
Stocks swoon on a costly economic divorce between the US and China
It hasn’t always been an easy relationship. But President Trump’s announcement of a 54% tariff on Chinese goods Wednesday effectively signaled an end to the half-century economic relationship between ...
Nvidia’s chips could be banned in China for not meeting new energy standards
China’s new energy regulations for advanced chips could spell trouble for . New Chinese energy efficiency rules would ban Nvidia’s popular Chinese-market H20 GPU, which is a vastly underpowered chip c...
European companies are leaving US cloud providers
As Europe reacts to the fraying of ties with America, companies based in the EU are looking to reduce their dependence on a crucial piece of tech infrastructure: American cloud computing. Cloud comput...
The US is stepping up its campaign to keep powerful Nvidia chips away from China
Malaysia is stepping up its scrutiny of high-powered semiconductors that enter the country after receiving a pointed request from the US to monitor shipments. The nations are currently investigating ...
Wary of US Big Tech, the EU looks to build its “EuroStack”
In the two months since President Trump took office, US allies have had to rapidly reconsider their longstanding relationships with the US. In trade, defense, and diplomacy, EU countries in particular...
OpenAI: America needs to be more like China to beat China at AI
In January, President Trump signed Executive Order 14179 , titled “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.” The order echoed President Biden’s executive order to prioritiz...
French satellite company Eutelsat is getting the “GameStop” treatment amid European concerns over Elon Musk’s Starlink
Call it JeuArrêt. French-based satellite company Eutelsat is on a tear reminiscent of the short squeezes seen in GameStop in 2021 and 2024. The firm had a market cap well shy of $1 billion heading int...
FT: Chinese money is pouring into Musk’s private companies
Chinese investors have poured tens of millions of dollars into Elon Musk’s private companies SpaceX, Neuralink, and xAI, according to a report from the Financial Times. According to the FT, the invest...
Alibaba shares jump 7% as China upgrades focus on domestic consumption
Shares of Chinese e-commerce giant popped nearly 8% in early afternoon trading after China reaffirmed its 2025 economic growth target Tuesday evening. The nation stuck to its 5% growth target, defyin...
European defense stocks have soared this year. Tomorrow, EU leaders will discuss the $840 billion defense plan.
European defense stocks have jumped since Friday’s tense showdown in the Oval Office between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as European leaders scrambled to adj...
Report: Chinese buyers evading US export controls on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs
Despite strict US export controls, Chinese buyers are getting their hands on latest and most powerful Blackwell GPUs, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. Brokers are placing orders f...
Tesla may have to designate the government as a “related party”
In Tesla’s latest annual report , Musk’s position at the Department of Government Efficiency was mentioned as a risk factor, in that it was one of the ways in which the company’s leader “does not devo...