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The Pittsburgh startup’s AI platform will create digital twins of Pacific Fleet vessels, starting with 18 ships, as the Navy races to fix a maintenance crisis costing up to $20 billion a year. Roughly 40% of the United States Navy’s fleet is unavailable at an…
Summary: US petrol prices passed $4/gallon for the first time in four years (+30% YoY), driven by the Iran conflict and Strait of Hormuz disruption. Tesla delivered 358,023 vehicles in Q1 2026, up 6% against a weak comparison quarter but missing estimates by …
The Nvidia CEO accepts a seat on Tsinghua’s School of Economics and Management board alongside Musk, Dell, Nadella, Zuckerberg, Dimon and Fink, days after travelling to China with Trump. Jensen Huang has accepted an invitation to join the advisory board of Ts…
The five-year deal consolidates scattered Microsoft 365 and cloud subscriptions for the Defense Department, intelligence community and Coast Guard. Dell, not Microsoft, is the prime contractor. The US Department of Defense has awarded Dell a five-year, roughl…
Trump Media & Technology Group, TAE Technologies, and Texas Ventures Acquisition III have decided not to proceed with a planned spinoff of Truth Social and other media assets. The three companies said in a statement on Wednesday that Trump Media and TAE remai…
India has effectively frozen the approvals Starlink needs to begin commercial operations in the country. Security agencies under India’s Ministry of Home Affairs withheld final clearances after SpaceX allowed Starlink access inside Iran despite not having a l…
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 eliminate m…
The one everybody covered went to Speaker Mike Johnson. CNBC’s Megan Cassella reported it first. House Democrats want public hearings on the AI security incidents of the past month, and they want the chief executives of the largest AI companies in the witness…
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent of Truth Social, reported a net loss of $238.1m for the second quarter of 2026, a figure that dwarfs the $20m loss it posted a year earlier and turns the company’s slow drift from social network to crypto holding veh…
Tesla exhausted its share of California’s MyFirstEV rebate between August 3 and August 8. The $50,000 price cap is waived for California-headquartered EV-only makers like Rivian and Lucid, but not Tesla. Tesla used up its entire allocation of California’s new…
President Donald Trump has signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum authorising US federal law enforcement to conduct offensive cyber operations against transnational criminal organisations operating abroad. Washington, in short, is giving itself fo…
Government software is usually bought by asking several companies to bid. A department writes down what it needs, suppliers compete, and the file records why the winner won. A memo drafted inside the US Defense Department on 4 August did something different. …
Donald Trump signed the proclamation on 13 August. It carries the title Adjusting Imports of Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Unmanned Aircraft Systems Components into the United States. It rests on Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the national se…
Donald Trump signed the memorandum on 12 August and the White House published it that night. It runs to five sections. A National Coordination Center creates and manages the programme. Two Program Executive Directors oversee it. The Attorney General designate…
The commerce secretary made the comments to The Wall Street Journal on 14 August, in a piece by Rolfe Winkler, Raffaele Huang and Amrith Ramkumar. “The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said. There have to be “other solutions to the memor…
A crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family is helping to bankroll a platform that resells artificial intelligence from Chinese companies the US government has blacklisted, an arrangement that sits awkwardly beside the administration’s own campaign…
The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz. At issue is whether partners at the venture capital firm improperly sit on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies. Bloomberg reported the investigation on Monday, citing people…
China is removing a government version of Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies, earlier than planned. The Ministry of State Security recently told some state-linked entities to uninstall the customised software, Bloomberg reported, citing people familia…
After eight months of export licences that moved almost nothing, Nvidia’s H200 accelerators have started arriving at Chinese technology companies. ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 of the processors in recent weeks, according to the Financ…
TikTok is working on a way for users to send each other money inside direct messages, according to Bloomberg. The feature would run on TikTok Pay, the app’s existing payment system, Bloomberg reported. Natalie Lung and Alexandra Levine wrote that references t…
The Securities and Exchange Commission spent Tuesday proposing the friendliest set of crypto rules an American regulator has ever put on paper. On Wednesday, the industry that would benefit from them was at the White House, having lunch with the president. Do…
The US Department of Justice has stepped into a court fight on the side of Elon Musk’s xAI. It is backing the company’s challenge to a Minnesota law that bans AI “nudification” tools. A federal judge heard arguments on Wednesday and said he would rule soon, a…
Big Tech is pouring money into local PR campaigns to win support for the data centres it needs. Opposition to the buildings is spreading across the United States. They are holding town halls, dropping tax demands and sponsoring community groups. That is accor…
The United States conducted 178 orbital launches and re-entries last year, but the White House now wants at least a thousand a year by 2030. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday directing federal agencies to clear the path to that number, la…
Disney asked a federal judge to hold an emergency hearing by Tuesday over the Federal Communications Commission’s move to review the licences of its eight ABC-owned stations. The Justice Department told the court on Thursday that there is no hurry. The govern…
The Dutch data protection authority has decided to fine Uber €825mn, or about $966mn, for shutting down driver accounts by automated systems without telling the drivers properly. It is the second-largest penalty ever issued under the General Data Protection R…
The US Department of Homeland Security proposed a rule on Monday. It would charge employers $103,265 for a new H-1B visa. Daniel Wiessner reported the filing for Reuters. A federal judge blocked a similar fee in June, calling it unlawful. H-1B visas let US em…
OpenAI has asked California to toughen the AI safety law it once fought. The company published the request on Friday, and Chase DiFeliciantonio reported it for Politico. It is the first major AI lab to call for changes to the transparency law. That law was th…
Donald Trump bought up to $50,000 of SpaceX stock on 23 June, roughly a fortnight after the company completed the largest initial public offering in history, according to a financial disclosure reported this week. The purchase places the sitting president on …
Texas governor Greg Abbott says data centre companies brought the backlash on themselves. “They basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them,” he told ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday. “And that’s why they got the backlash they deser…
Huawei has bid to build AI data centres for the Egyptian government. The US State Department is now trying to assemble a rival consortium from Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. The tender offer proposes exporting 1,408 of Huawei’s top-end Ascend 950-series chips for…
Amazon expects package volume in Canada to rise by more than 40% between 2026 and 2029, outpacing its US growth every year, according to internal documents reviewed by Business Insider. One of the more striking details is a March planning document recording t…
A federal judge has voided the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, finding that the label was punishment for the company’s public criticism of the Trump administration rather than a security assessment. US District Ju…
Google Maps now labels Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the United States, following an update to the US Geographic Names Information System, while Canadian users see the old name and everyone else sees both. Google Maps has been a designated very la…
Donald Trump Jr is a partner at the fund leading Polymarket’s new funding round. He is also a strategic adviser to Kalshi, Polymarket’s principal competitor. 1789 Capital is putting about $300m into a round of roughly $1bn that values Polymarket at $21bn, For…
John Ternus became chief executive of Apple on Tuesday. The first public decision of his tenure was to rename a Canadian lake. It was also not his decision to make. Apple Maps now shows Lake Ontario as “Lake America” to users in the United States. Mark Gurman…
A German chemicals company is considering closing the American plant that Washington’s new polysilicon tariffs were supposed to protect. Wacker Chemie has lost its last two customers for the material since the measures were announced and is weighing the futur…
Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald Trump in mid-August, Politico reports. The two options still on the table are a FINRA-style body funded by the firms it would oversee and an MPA…
Executives at Abu Dhabi’s G42 have held exploratory talks about selling a majority stake to American companies, Bloomberg reported on Friday, as the firm races to guarantee access to advanced chips beyond next year. Alex Dooler, Zainab Fattah and Dinesh Nair …
The rogue-agent stories of the past two months have arrived somewhere nobody planned for. They are on the agenda for a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The United States will raise AI safety with China when Xi visits the White House on 24 Septembe…
Malaysia is leaning towards Huawei silicon to run its national AI project, according to Bloomberg. No foreign government has openly chosen Chinese AI accelerators over American ones before. Washington told the world last year that buying these particular chip…
The United States has asked Britain to abandon a plan to make social platforms promote trusted news. Its central argument is not about Britain at all. The submission sits on the US Embassy website in London, dated 2 September. It answers a consultation on the…
China’s foreign ministry has rejected the joint US intelligence advisory accusing Chinese developers of extracting capabilities from American frontier models at industrial scale, calling on Washington to stop making unfounded accusations and smears. Mao Ning,…
US President Donald Trump has no concerns about AI leading to human extinction. “No, I don’t have any,” he told reporters on Thursday, as he left Dallas. Jeff Mason reported the exchange for Bloomberg. Trump said his worry was losing the race. “I have concern…
Donald Trump was watching golf at his Doonbeg resort in Ireland on Sunday when reporters asked him about the AI industry’s sudden appetite for slowing itself down. He said the United States leads China, that he wants to keep it that way, and that “whoever win…
Dario Amodei’s essay on Saturday made the case that the AI industry must slow itself down. It also asked Washington to “not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China” and to crack down on smuggling and on remote access to data c…
Senate negotiators are drafting a bill that would let the US government stop the release of an AI model. Courtney Rozen reported the terms for Reuters. Her sources are two Senate aides, a person familiar with the deliberations and a lobbyist involved in the t…
Donald Trump has called fears about AI a “HOAX” in a string of Truth Social posts. The US president also asked why AI industry leaders want to be regulated. The posts came a day after his remarks in Ireland, where he called people asking to slow AI down a neg…
Kamala Harris posted a four-paragraph statement on X on Monday night setting out what she wants Washington to do about AI. She asked Congress to pass new laws and “establish a new federal entity to provide oversight and independent testing” for frontier model…
Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook are expected at the state dinner Donald Trump is hosting for Xi Jinping on 24 September. The same executives were on the Beijing trip in May, where AI safety was discussed, nothing was signed and the US trade representati…
President Donald Trump posted twice about artificial intelligence on Saturday. The first post asked his followers to vote on a new name for the technology. The second called the campaign against it a hoax and promised an AI Force and an AI czar. The rename ha…
Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday to give artificial intelligence a new name. From now on, he said, US government documents would call it ‘super intelligence’, because ‘artificial’ made the technology sound fake. …
The United States Justice Department has requested that a federal judge dismiss the emergency application submitted by CNN, Politico, and MS NOW to get their reporters readmitted to the White House. In a court document filed on Tuesday evening, the government…
The United States is rejecting any global governance of advanced AI, telling the UN Security Council in New York today that each country should regulate the technology itself. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Poli…
US President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet tech chief executives to discuss artificial intelligence on Tuesday, 29 September, Axios reported the plans on Thursday, citing a source familiar with them. A source also confirmed the date to…
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday that the US and China can continue their dialogue on artificial intelligence. The two sides can also jointly prevent its misuse and abuse, according to China’s foreign ministry read…
Chinese President Xi Jinping left Washington on Friday at the end of a state visit that extended the US-China trade truce but produced no major new agreements. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two countries had agreed to extend their trade truce to 1…
President Donald Trump plans to host Anthropic boss Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening. Maria Curi and Marc Caputo broke the news for Axios, citing people familiar with the matter. It would be the first one-on-one meeting between t…
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei had dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday night, Semafor confirmed. It was the first one-on-one meeting between the two, which Axios first reported and TNW covered on Sunday. Hours before the di…
The US and China will hold a regular dialogue on super intelligence and set up a channel for incidents. The White House announced the deal in a fact sheet on Xi Jinping’s state visit. Both leaders agreed to call the technology “super intelligence” rather than…
President Donald Trump left a White House lunch with more than two dozen tech leaders on Tuesday, still set against the backdrop of new AI safety rules. He told reporters the executives had agreed that companies should police themselves, NBC News reported. “T…
US President Donald Trump has said he does not want to cooperate with China on AI governance, arguing that it would help Beijing catch up with American companies. He spoke on Tuesday in Washington shortly before hosting AI executives for lunch at the White Ho…
US President Donald Trump is set to meet the heads of several major AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, according to Reuters, amid mounting pressure on the government to establish regulations for the technology, with House Speaker Mike Johnson also at…
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are joining other business leaders at the White House on Tuesday for a lunch event on artificial intelligence. The event will be hosted by President Donald Trump, together with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House. …
House Speaker Mike Johnson said he hopes safety guardrails for AI will be “voluntary”, speaking to CNBC on Tuesday. Johnson spoke on the channel’s “Squawk Box” hours before a meeting with AI leaders and President Donald Trump in Washington. “I hope it’s volun…
Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce a bill that would ban AI models that improve themselves until federal safeguards exist, Garrett Downs reported for CNBC on Monday. Khanna, a Democrat from California, shared a summary of the Human Control Over AI Act with CNB…
The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be a single front door to federal services. On its first day, it contradicted President Donald Trump. Within hours, some of its answers had changed. Trump signed an executive order at the…
President Donald Trump has now renamed a gulf, a lake, and a technology. On Tuesday, he signed an executive order telling every federal agency to stop saying ‘artificial intelligence’ and to call it ‘super intelligence’, or SI, instead. Also, on his Truth Soc…
Elon Musk has told reporters at the White House that AI and humanoid robots will most likely make everyone better off. He spoke on Tuesday outside the West Wing, beside President Donald Trump, after the president’s lunch with tech leaders. He began by praisin…
The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over the risks their technology poses to consumers. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the probe on Wednesday to CNBC and CBS News. The New York Post first reported the probe earl…
President Donald Trump has said that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton would make a good AI czar, Axios reported on Tuesday. Trump has said he wants to name a czar within three or four days. Maria Curi of Axios asked Trump who he wanted for the ro…
President Donald Trump has ruled out nationalising America’s leading AI labs. But the US might still take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic, he told TIME in an interview published on Thursday. Eric Cortellessa and Sam Jacobs interviewed Trump at the White House…
Mark Zuckerberg came up with the AI safety accord that President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday, Semafor and Politico reported. He also circulated the draft. Microsoft and Amazon did not sign it. Satya Nadella and Jeff Bezos both attended the White House lunc…
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot confirm that IT equipment it left in four closed offices is secure, a watchdog has found. J.J. McCorvey reported the audit for Bloomberg. The bureau ended the leases on its New York, Chicago, San Francisco an…
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange. Amodei replied that…
The AI industry’s new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor. “Companies are going to have to make it more specific, on how they’re going to operationalize it,” said …
Anthropic has warned that the US government’s view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firm’s IPO prospectus, which Reuters reported on Friday after seeing the docume…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked Donald Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese companies building Russia’s answer to Starlink, the Financial Times reported. He has raised it with Trump several times, including at a recent meeting in New Yor…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remarks in an interview with Axios published on Saturday. “This alarmism without solutions by some of the AI community, that’s not leadership,” …
US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on Wednesday…
Trump named the intelligence director Jay Clayton, the FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson, the Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael and the personnel director Scott Kupor to lead a Super Intelligence Force with no statutory authority or budget. Europe took the op…
Slovenia’s domain registry recorded 20,276 new .si web addresses in the 24 hours to Monday afternoon, the live counter on Register.si shows. The .si country code matches the initials of “super intelligence”, the name President Donald Trump has told US agencie…
Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX’s artificial intelligence unit, SpaceXAI, will change its name to SpaceXSI. The plan follows an order from US President Donald Trump directing federal agencies to drop the term “artificial intelligence.” Musk confirmed the…
Anduril will invest $3.7bn in a new shipyard near Baltimore to build parts for the US Navy’s Virginia-class submarines, the defence company said on Tuesday. The Navy has also awarded Anduril a contract worth up to $2.9bn, with payments tied to demonstrated pr…
Five American technology companies are pledging $2.4B in AI tools and compute credits to federal science at a White House summit, with Nvidia giving $1B and Google the smallest share at $150M. The same administration suspended Microsoft from a residency progr…
The US Department of War has offered chipmaker Wolfspeed a conditional loan of up to $1.5bn over 30 years. In return, Wolfspeed would give the department warrants to buy up to 7.5% of the company. Wolfspeed filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2025. The de…
US President Donald Trump wrote on Truth that the White House sees anyone who says “artificial intelligence” instead of “super intelligence” as “THE ENEMY”. “The White House considers anyone that uses the term, “Artificial Intelligence,” as opposed to the hig…
Six technology leaders received the country’s highest honours for science and technology from President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House said. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang and Lisa Su got the National Medal of Science. Michael Dell and Satya …
Sam Altman said the superintelligence accord that President Donald Trump signed with AI executives is “a good start”, but that the industry will need more. He said it in the second of two interviews with Vanity Fair, recorded in San Francisco on 2 October. Th…
The Trump administration is betting that the threat of lawsuits will keep AI companies honest. But it is far from clear who would pay when an AI agent goes rogue, Maggie Eastland reported for Bloomberg. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and former White House …
Salesforce is renaming its AIForce agent platform to SIForce, chief executive Marc Benioff said on Friday, as Katherine Li reported for Business Insider. “The era of Super Intelligence is here. AIForce is officially SIForce,” Benioff wrote on X. The change co…