Trump hosts 33 tech titans for White House dinner, where attendees pledge billions in U.S. investments, signaling industry's warming ties with administration despite notable absences like Elon Musk and Jensen Huang.
At the SCO Summit, China's President Xi Jinping calls for strengthening artificial intelligence cooperation among members, rejects a 'Cold War mentality', proposes a new 'Global Governance Initiative', and urges peaceful coexistence without imposing rules of a few countries on others.
Breaking news: Current and former Microsoft employees occupy President Brad Smith's office, locking down a building, demanding the tech giant sever ties with Israel over human rights concerns in a sit-in protest.
In a controversial move raising security concerns, President Trump authorizes Nvidia and AMD to sell advanced AI chips to China in exchange for a 15% revenue share, redefining U.S. export control policy as a bargaining chip for economic gain.
Peter Thiel's secretive elite forum Dialog plans a D.C. campus for hosting invite-only, off-the-record meetings where global leaders discuss controversial ideas away from public scrutiny.
Trump's AI Action Plan seeks to curb chip exports to China in a bid to maintain US AI dominance, but lacks coordination with allies and companies on implementation details.
Blackstone abandons plans to invest in TikTok's US operations as uncertainty mounts over the video-sharing app's future, with ByteDance exploring options like selling or restructuring its US business amid delays in securing a deal.
Escalating trade tensions as the European Union extends suspension of tariffs on US goods until August, while US President Trump announces 30% tariffs on EU imports starting August 1, prompting the EU to warn of further countermeasures.
AI-powered impersonation scheme targets diplomats and officials worldwide as someone impersonates Secretary of State Marco Rubio using AI to contact foreign ministers, and a Russia-linked cyber actor poses as a fictitious State Department official to target think tanks, activists, and former officials.
President Trump's Middle East trip blurred lines between diplomacy and business, as CEOs joined him amid $1.8 trillion investment deals while questions swirled about his own company's interests in the region, pushing ethical boundaries.