Qualcomm, the king of the smartphone modem, is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance. The move would help it escape a shrinking phone market. It also shows US chipmakers will not give up on China. Qualcomm wants to be a chip designer for the AI…
A supercomputer in Shenzhen just topped the world rankings for the first time since 2017. The headline is the speed. The real story is the silicon: it runs without a single chip from Nvidia, AMD or Intel. China has taken back the supercomputing crown. …
A 2,000% rally has handed Beijing’s Zhipu a rare fundraising window, and Anthropic’s vanished Fable 5 widened it. The harder question is whether a deeply unprofitable lab can turn the moment into a durable business. Six months ago, Zhipu was a Chinese …
Alibaba has taken the US Department of Defense to court over a label the company insists it does not deserve. In a complaint filed on Tuesday in the federal court in San Jose, California, the Hangzhou group asked a judge to strike its name from the Pen…
Legion LegalTech says the export directive that shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide has done “immediate, irreparable, and existential” harm to its business. US legal-technology company has sued the federal government over the directive that, two w…
A presidential adviser says AI demand could pull forward the next phase of fab construction by more than a decade, and that the country needs somewhere to put it. South Korea’s government is in talks with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix about the next…
The Federal Communications Commission has raised about $3.5 billion from an auction of mid-band wireless spectrum, with most of the proceeds earmarked to fund the removal of Chinese-made telecom equipment from US networks. The agency’s long-running “ri…
The Trump administration has been pressing Meta to submit its most capable AI models for federal security review, leaving the company the only major US developer that has not agreed to do so, according to a New York Times report. The push, the paper sa…
Seven of Europe’s largest technology companies have created a permanent dialogue with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, pressing the bloc to deregulate faster and let European firms consolidate. The group, which calls itself the Europ…
The European Commission is preparing preliminary findings that accuse Facebook and Instagram of exploitative design that hooks children. The Meta addictive design probe could end in a fine worth up to 6% of global sales. Brussels is about to turn up th…