The FCC reopens the door to Chinese toy drones, but only the tiniest ones
The FCC reopens the door to Chinese toy drones, but only the tiniest ones

The exemption is narrower than the announcement makes it sound. On Tuesday the US Federal Communications Commission said it would again allow new models of Chinese toy drones to be imported, six months after it barred new foreign-made drones outright. …

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek and 100-plus Chinese firms
US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek and 100-plus Chinese firms

The decision had, in effect, already been made. According to people familiar with the matter, reports Reuters, a US interagency committee approved adding the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, the memory-chip maker CXMT and more than 100 other companies flag…

More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.
More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.

The US Army has commissioned three more technology executives into Detachment 201, the reserve unit that gives Silicon Valley leaders the rank of lieutenant colonel and a direct advisory line to senior military officials. Dane Knecht, chief technology …

Anthropic spent six months warning the world about AI. Then the government pulled its models.
Anthropic spent six months warning the world about AI. Then the government pulled its models.

No company in the AI industry has done more to warn the public about the technology it is building than Anthropic. No company has had those warnings turned against it quite so brutally. In the past six months, Anthropic has published a 19,000-word essa…

EU Parliament strips immunity from senior Italian MEP in Huawei bribery probe
EU Parliament strips immunity from senior Italian MEP in Huawei bribery probe

The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to lift the parliamentary immunity of Fulvio Martusciello, clearing the way for Belgian prosecutors to pursue bribery allegations linked to Chinese tech giant Huawei. The vote was 344 in favour, 234 against, wit…

The EU just passed the Turnberry trade deal. The tech fight is only starting.
The EU just passed the Turnberry trade deal. The tech fight is only starting.

The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to ratify the Turnberry Agreement, the trade deal struck at Donald Trump’s Scottish golf resort in July 2025. The final tally was 440 in favour, 151 against, with 50 abstentions. Under the deal, the EU will elim…

The US government is defending xAI’s polluting turbines as vital to the war effort
The US government is defending xAI’s polluting turbines as vital to the war effort

The US Justice Department has taken Elon Musk’s side in a pollution lawsuit, arguing that the gas turbines powering his AI data centre are too important to national security to switch off. In a filing on Monday, the department, joined by the state of M…

France’s intelligence service is dropping Palantir for a homegrown rival
France’s intelligence service is dropping Palantir for a homegrown rival

France’s domestic intelligence agency is dropping Palantir. The DGSI will replace the American firm’s data-analysis tools with software from ChapsVision, a French company, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday, framing the switch as part of …

India blocks Telegram until 22 June over medical exam-cheating rackets
India blocks Telegram until 22 June over medical exam-cheating rackets

India has temporarily blocked access to Telegram until 22 June, the government said, after concluding that cheating rackets were using the app to defraud candidates sitting a high-stakes medical-entrance re-exam. The order, invoking Section 69A of the …

Italy’s antitrust regulator opens a probe into Apple’s cloud services
Italy’s antitrust regulator opens a probe into Apple’s cloud services

Italy’s competition authority has opened an investigation into Apple over its cloud services, examined under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. The move places Apple’s cloud business under a regulator that has already become one of the company’s…