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Trump officials fear a loophole let Chinese firms buy Nvidia Blackwells

The gap, officials worry, let Chinese companies acquire banned chips through overseas subsidiaries. New guidance is meant to close it, after the chips may already have moved. The export ban worked on paper and leaked in practice. Trump administration officials are worried that a gap in US rules allowed Chinese companies to legally buy servers […]

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US officials have discussed taking government stakes in AI companies

The idea is unusual enough that it took a moment to register: the United States government, owning a slice of the companies building frontier AI. According to a report by NOTUS, senior US officials have held preliminary discussions with major AI companies about exactly that, the federal government acquiring shares in the firms at the […]

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Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, ending weeks of internal White House conflict over how aggressively to regulate the technology. The order, titled “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security,” was signed privately without the usual livestream or public ceremony, a […]

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The White House is at war with itself over who gets to regulate AI

The Trump administration is locked in an internal battle over artificial intelligence regulation that has paralysed federal AI policy at the moment it matters most. Three factions are fighting for control: the Commerce Department, which has been quietly building civilian testing partnerships with AI companies; national security officials who want intelligence agencies to evaluate frontier […]

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Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI, naming Altman personally and calling ChatGPT a defective product

Florida has sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in what appears to be the first lawsuit by a US state against the maker of ChatGPT. The civil complaint, filed Monday in state court by Attorney General James Uthmeier, accuses OpenAI of violating product liability laws, engaging in deceptive trade practices, and releasing ChatGPT while knowing it […]

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A strike at one Michigan axle plant could choke production of GM’s most profitable vehicles

Nearly 1,000 unionised workers at a Dauch Corp plant in Three Rivers, Michigan, walked off the job at midnight on Sunday after the United Auto Workers declared an unfair labour practice strike over stalled contract negotiations. The factory makes axles for the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks, two of General Motors’ most profitable vehicles, […]

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Pentagon gives Dell a $9.7bn contract to consolidate Microsoft licences across the military

The five-year deal consolidates scattered Microsoft 365 and cloud subscriptions for the Defense Department, intelligence community and Coast Guard. Dell, not Microsoft, is the prime contractor. The US Department of Defense has awarded Dell a five-year, roughly $9.7bn contract to consolidate Microsoft software licensing across the entire US military, the intelligence community and the Coast […]

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The Qualcomm-ByteDance ASIC deal works around US export controls by design

The TikTok parent will buy millions of Qualcomm application-specific chips for AI data centres and use Qualcomm to take its own design from blueprint to production. Qualcomm has struck a deal to supply ByteDance with millions of application-specific integrated circuits, the chip designer’s most prominent commitment yet to compete in the AI data-centre market it […]

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Wall Street is paying $25,000 a day for AI trainers who used to work there

Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, two ex-bankers, are booked out for the next two months teaching financial institutions to actually use the AI tools they have already bought. Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang, two former investment bankers, are charging banks and investment funds up to $25,000 a day to teach senior staff how to use […]

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SpaceX wants the Pentagon to pay five times more for Starlink in the Iran war

With US strike drones over Iran relying on Starlink for guidance, SpaceX has told the Defense Department the current $5,000-per-terminal rate undervalues what the network is actually doing. SpaceX has told the US Defense Department that it should be paying around $25,000 per terminal for the Starlink links guiding American strike drones over Iran, rather […]

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