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 year-long enforcement gap.
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.
A new UCL survey reveals Chinese workers are embracing AI with remarkable confidence, with less than 10% fearing job losses, 96% using AI weekly at work, and a third believing the technology will actually create more high-skilled opportunities.
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.
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.
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.
The Trump White House is preparing to release an executive order as soon as this week on AI safety and cybersecurity, requiring developers to share advanced AI models with the government 90 days before public release, amid growing alarm over cyber-capable AI models like Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber.
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.