The US Commerce Department closes a major loophole that allowed Chinese AI firms to secretly acquire advanced Nvidia and AMD chips through overseas subsidiaries, tying export restrictions to a company's headquarters nationality rather than physical location — though hundreds of thousands of chips may have already slipped through during a …
China is restricting overseas travel for top AI professionals at Alibaba and DeepSeek, requiring government approval before traveling abroad as Beijing moves to protect strategic tech assets amid its intensifying race with the U.S.
AMD CEO Lisa Su predicts massive CPU market growth over the next five years, driven by an unprecedented and unanticipated global surge in AI infrastructure demand that is rapidly reshaping the entire semiconductor landscape.
Pope Leo XIV issues a landmark 44,000-word encyclical demanding a ban on lethal AI weapons, limits on Big Tech power, and protections for children online, framing AI development as a defining moral crossroads between profit-driven dominance and human dignity — with even Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah attending the Vatican presentation …
DeepSeek slashes V4 Pro prices by 75% to $0.87 per million output tokens, dramatically undercutting rivals like GPT-5 and Claude Opus 4.7, igniting an AI price war while geopolitical tensions and accusations of unauthorized training data theft from Anthropic continue to cloud the Chinese AI company's rapid market expansion.
Reflection AI lands a landmark Department of Energy partnership to serve as the AI model provider for the Genesis Mission, deploying quantum-powered AI research tools across 17 national laboratories while simultaneously expanding its government reach with Pentagon and South Korea deals.
Manus co-founders are racing to raise $1 billion to buy back their AI startup from Meta Platforms after Beijing ordered the $2 billion acquisition unwound, with plans to restructure the company as a Chinese joint venture and pursue a Hong Kong IPO.
Chinese AI models are seizing over 60% market share on developer platforms, with costs up to nine times cheaper than American rivals like Anthropic, threatening the massive $800 billion-plus valuations OpenAI and Anthropic are counting on ahead of their upcoming IPOs.
Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu M890 AI chip with triple the performance of its predecessor, announces a multi-year chip roadmap, and launches a new AI model and server system, backed by a massive 380 billion yuan infrastructure investment as China races to reduce reliance on U.S. chips.
Over 60 MAGA allies, including Steve Bannon, are pushing President Trump to require mandatory government testing and approval of powerful AI models before public release, directly clashing with the White House's current hands-off regulatory approach and warning that unchecked frontier AI could enable bioweapons, infrastructure attacks, and financial market manipulation.