Regulation, antitrust, digital rights
American chipmakers spend 95% of their $27 billion supply budget with US, European and Japanese firms. But the minerals beneath that chain — gallium, tungsten, terbium — are overwhelmingly Chinese, and building alternatives could take many years.
It is the first penalty issued under the Outbound Investment Security Programme, which took effect in January 2025. The rules govern US investment in Chinese artificial intelligence, semiconductor and quantum computing businesses.
The Trade Desk, ID5, LiveRamp and others found their domains on a private Apple blocklist that Safari enforces automatically. The dispute is unresolved, and industry figures say the move threatens the web's advertising business model.
The draft budget for 2027–2029 is almost twice what was planned two years ago. Sanctions and soaring component prices are pushing up the cost of the equipment used to block and slow online traffic.
The money would fund output increases at at least three of Vistra's four nuclear stations without the need for new licences. It fits into Trump's goal of quadrupling US nuclear capacity by 2050.
The rules would create, in the SEC chairman's words, 'a compliant pathway where none existed before.' The move comes after the US Senate blocked broader crypto legislation in a 50-to-49 vote.
FinCEN withdrew two proposals that would have required banks and exchanges to report transactions linked to crypto mixers and wallets held directly by users. Coin Center, which had opposed both, called the withdrawals a significant gain for financial privacy.
The company filed challenges at the EU General Court in Luxembourg, warning that the orders risk irreversible harm to user privacy. The cases will test how far the EU can push data-sharing rules into a platform's core services under the Digital Markets Act.
The USDC issuer says mandatory deposit minimums add credit risk and push users toward offshore providers. Only three of the top 25 stablecoins by market value are currently regulated under MiCA.
Governor Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act after vetoing similar legislation last year. Employers must have a human independently verify any AI-led discipline or dismissal, and tell workers what data the system used.
A Washington research group estimates Chinese fabs spent over $13 billion on the tools in 2024 alone, racing to build up supplies before the Netherlands extended licensing requirements. The findings have added to US calls for a complete ban on advanced lithography exports to China.
The US Department of Justice has filed to join X's court challenge against the European Commission's ruling, arguing Brussels has overstepped its territorial reach. The EU says it is simply enforcing rules that protect its own users.
OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face are calling for international benchmarks to measure AI capabilities and risk. The Trump administration has dismissed both the idea of new regulation and a coordinated global framework.
The European Commission wants to publish annual sustainability labels for larger data centres, covering efficiency, clean energy sourcing and waste heat reuse. The move comes as EU data centre capacity is expected to more than double by 2030, and the Commission is also consulting on whether to make minimum efficiency standards mandatory.
A survey by China's state asset regulator found Broadcom equipment accounts for as much as 90% of switches in some facilities. No formal ban has been issued, but informal guidance to scale back could follow.
Tom Siegel, who founded Google's trust and safety team, has joined Common Sense Media to lead its Youth AI Safety Institute. He warned that suicide, psychosis and cognitive offloading were among the potential harms, and that companies could not tackle the risks without outside help.
The block covers seven domains and was ordered by a government copyright body, not a judge. Authorities have not named the complainant or the specific material said to be at issue.
More than 300 local moratoriums and bans have been adopted across the country, and project cancellations jumped from 6 in 2024 to 25 in 2025. Estimates suggest that a smaller share of planned power capacity faces genuine delay, but the political resistance is now active in 49 states.
Apple's executive chair met Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Apple Park in California on Sunday. Australia became the first country to ban social media for children under 16, in December.
The executive order calls for a panel to examine independent monitors for frontier AI companies, safety plans and a 'kill switch' for advanced systems. It leaves open who sits on the panel, which companies would be covered, and whether the recommendations will become law.
Jack Clark told the BBC that voluntary shutdown controls may eventually give way to formal, independently tested rules. A bipartisan bill already before US Congress would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain the ability to suspend or shut them down.
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink made the announcement at a conference on Monday, the first public confirmation by a senior Pentagon official of operational space-based weapons. He gave no details on their number, design or location, but experts believe they are likely to be communications jammers rather than kinetic strike systems.
Utility-scale solar prices fell roughly 90% between 2010 and 2024, from $408 to $44 per megawatt hour. Battery costs have dropped just as sharply, making solar-plus-storage a realistic alternative to gas and coal in much of the world.
The European Commission has designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act — the first AI chatbot to receive that label. Reddit and Roblox have also been brought into the same tier, giving all three until late November to comply or face fines of up to 6% of global turnover.
The European Commission has made ChatGPT the first AI chatbot to fall under the Digital Services Act's toughest tier of oversight. Reddit and Roblox were designated at the same time, and all three have four months to comply.
A twelve-nation consortium has invited defence contractors to help define what a successor to the Evolved SeaSparrow Missile should do. No timeline or budget has been set — for now it is a listening exercise, while the current missile remains in active production.
The president named Hyperliquid at a White House crypto summit on 19 August, saying the CFTC is crafting a regulatory path to let the derivatives platform operate legally in the US. Its HYPE token jumped 19% on the news.
DARPA has asked companies to propose designs for a scramjet-powered missile that can penetrate the sophisticated air defence networks China and Russia have been expanding. It is also pushing for something cheap enough to build at scale, not just a one-off demonstrator.
Judge James Donato's approval on 4 March 2026 converts a US-only antitrust injunction into a global commitment running to 2032, with fee reductions taking effect across the US, UK, and EEA by June.
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