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…

Anthropic is briefing the Financial Stability Board on what Mythos has been finding
Anthropic is briefing the Financial Stability Board on what Mythos has been finding

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, who chairs the global financial-risk watchdog, has invited the company to present to G20 finance ministries and central banks. The model that worried him is the model now being explained. Anthropic is preparing t…

Trump calls Taiwan arms deal a “negotiating chip” after three days with Xi in Beijing
Trump calls Taiwan arms deal a “negotiating chip” after three days with Xi in Beijing

  Donald Trump flew home from Beijing on Friday having told China’s Xi Jinping that a $14 billion arms package for Taiwan is “a very good negotiating chip,” a remark that reframes American security commitments to a democratic ally as a bargaining token…

Musk’s X commits to UK regulator on hate speech, with Grok probe still open
Musk’s X commits to UK regulator on hate speech, with Grok probe still open

Elon Musk’s platform has agreed to review illegal hate and terrorism posts within a day on average, restrict UK-proscribed groups, and report quarterly to the regulator. A separate Ofcom investigation continues. X has agreed to a set of commitments on …