HHS launches AI initiative to detect fraud and waste in federal health programmes
HHS launches AI initiative to detect fraud and waste in federal health programmes

The Department of Health and Human Services is moving from “pay and chase” to real-time AI screening across Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the Marketplace. The US Department of Health and Human Services has launched an artificial intelligence initiative …

UN draft protocol would expand nations’ right to tax tech giants
UN draft protocol would expand nations’ right to tax tech giants

A May 5 draft, due to be discussed in New York in August, takes aim at where digital revenue is taxed and by whom. A new draft protocol circulating inside the United Nations tax process would let countries tax companies like Google, Amazon and Meta bas…

IBM lands $1bn as US backs nine quantum companies for $2bn
IBM lands $1bn as US backs nine quantum companies for $2bn

Nine CHIPS Act letters of intent, $1bn for IBM, and a government cap table that now includes most of the publicly traded quantum names. The US Department of Commerce has signed nine letters of intent to provide $2.013bn in CHIPS Act funding to quantum …

Taiwan moves to detain three over alleged illegal high-end AI server exports to China
Taiwan moves to detain three over alleged illegal high-end AI server exports to China

The investigation is the island’s first formal semiconductor-smuggling crackdown and ties back to the wider Supermicro-linked diversion network that has been routing Nvidia Hopper systems into Chinese customers through Hong Kong and third-country relay…

Trump administration moves to underwrite US AI exports with billions in EXIM financing
Trump administration moves to underwrite US AI exports with billions in EXIM financing

EXIM has more than $100bn of unused statutory lending capacity that the White House wants channelled into US-built, full-stack AI export packages, with the Commerce Department running a public solicitation for industry-led consortia. The Trump administ…

Trump to sign an AI oversight order this week as MAGA security pressure mounts on frontier-model labs
Trump to sign an AI oversight order this week as MAGA security pressure mounts on frontier-model labs

The draft executive order, expected as early as Thursday, sets up a voluntary 90-day pre-release model-disclosure framework with the federal government, with critical-infrastructure providers including banks brought in early. Steve Bannon and Amy Kreme…

Fairplay and NCSE ask the FTC to investigate Roblox over child safety and ‘unfair and deceptive’ marketing
Fairplay and NCSE ask the FTC to investigate Roblox over child safety and ‘unfair and deceptive’ marketing

The complaint accuses the gaming platform of misleading the public about its safety and pressuring young users to spend. Roblox ‘strongly disputes’ the claims; the FTC has declined to comment. Two children’s advocacy groups, Fairplay and the National C…

AMD’s Lisa Su meets China’s vice premier in Beijing as chip diplomacy intensifies
AMD’s Lisa Su meets China’s vice premier in Beijing as chip diplomacy intensifies

  AMD CEO Lisa Su sat down with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday, a meeting that underscores how US chipmakers are scrambling to protect their foothold in the world’s second-largest semiconductor marke…

The US is building a 4,000-acre AI hub in the Philippines, and the sovereignty questions are already piling up
The US is building a 4,000-acre AI hub in the Philippines, and the sovereignty questions are already piling up

  The United States and the Philippines are moving “very, very quickly” on a planned 4,000-acre artificial intelligence and supply chain hub in New Clark City, north of Manila, according to Jacob Helberg, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affai…

Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address
Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address

  Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe’s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving the world toward what he called a “spiral of annihilati…