US-China tech competition, export controls, and the intersection of geopolitics and technology
Bitcoin is entering March after five consecutive months in the red, its longest losing streak since 2018, according to CoinGlass . is not acting as a safe haven the way gold has after the US launched ...
President Trump said he has ordered all federal agencies to “IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology” as the AI startup and the federal government disagree over safety guardrails. Anthropi...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is working with the Pentagon to negotiate safety guardrails for AI models used in the battlefield, which comes as one of its top competitors, Anthropic, is at a ...
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Anthropic faces a difficult decision by Friday after a tense meeting this week between CEO Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon. After...
Chinese drone maker DJI has filed a lawsuit against the FCC challenging the December 2025 decision that effectively bans all foreign drones and components from the US market. DJI and all other foreign...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been summoned to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon on Tuesday, according to a report from Axios. Tensions are running high between the Trump admin...
President Trump on Thursday said “bad things will happen” if a “meaningful deal” is not reached between the US and Iran, escalating tensions between the two countries as well as the threat of a possib...
The Russian government has fully blocked WhatsApp, the country’s most popular messaging app, over what a Kremlin spokesman called the company’s “unwillingness to comply with Russian law.” In a statem...
Ahead of their appearances Wednesday at a Senate committee hearing on the future of self-driving , the two biggest names in the sector , and Waymo, are talking the same book.
The signs are there: the French government has restricted the use of for its employees. In Germany, the state of Schleswig-Holstein is ending the use of Teams among its workers. As US-EU tensions ri...
A new Chinese safety rule will require every vehicle sold in the country to have mechanically operable external and internal door handles that work even without power by 2027. The move would effective...
Apple just posted record quarterly revenue and iPhone sales — and China, a sore spot for years, was a big reason why. For the quarter ended December 2025, Apple’s total revenue rose 16% year on year t...
rose around 1.6% in premarket trading Wednesday after Reuters reported that Chinese authorities have approved ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to collectively buy more than 400,000 of the company’s H20...
A year ago this week, Chinese startup DeepSeek shook the AI world with the release of its DeepSeek-R1 model. Since then, everything has changed. Before the release of DeepSeek, pretty much all of the ...
Last year, President Trump’s erratic trade policies served as a wake-up call for European leaders. As US Big Tech companies aligned themselves close to President Trump and an ongoing global AI race st...
The “will Xi, won’t Xi?” of quest to send AI chips to China got some positive news, reversing a string of recent negative reports. Per Bloomberg , Chinese officials told leading domestic tech champio...
The saga of Nvidia’s H200s has more confounding twists and turns than a house of mirrors. On Friday evening, the Financial Times reported that suppliers for Nvidia’s H200 chips have halted production ...
Satellite services stocks , , and all notched closing records as geopolitical instability continues to push them higher. Planet Labs President and CFO Ashley Johnson presented at the Needham Growth C...
As the Commerce Department delivers the equivalent of a ribbon-cutting ceremony for H200 sales to China, officials in the world’s second-largest economy are throwing up more red tape. Reuters reports ...
US President Donald Trump’s call for Nvidia and its peers to be able to sell advanced AI chips to Chinese customers has evolved from the realm of social media posts to official policy paperwork. The ...