Senator claims Trump may open US market to Chinese EVs in Xi deal
Senator claims Trump may open US market to Chinese EVs in Xi deal

Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) says she’s hearing rumors that President Trump is preparing to let Chinese cars be sold in the US as part of a broader deal with China.

She raised the claim Wednesday, tying it to Trump’s upcoming meeting with Chinese P…

US intelligence advisory names six Chinese AI firms and lists the US models each one targeted
US intelligence advisory names six Chinese AI firms and lists the US models each one targeted

Three US agencies have jointly named six Chinese AI companies as having systematically extracted capabilities from American frontier models since late 2024, in an advisory detailed enough to list which model each firm went after and how the requests we…

China put a 99.2% duty on a chemical chip fabs need
China put a 99.2% duty on a chemical chip fabs need

China has imposed a cash deposit of up to 99.2% on imports of a Japanese chemical that chip fabs use to build the films inside logic and memory chips. The rate is close to prohibitive. It took effect on Tuesday. China’s Ministry of Commerce published t…

China’s answer to ASML runs on Zeiss lenses, Financial Times reports
China’s answer to ASML runs on Zeiss lenses, Financial Times reports

China’s effort to build its own chipmaking machines finally has a coordinator. It is Huawei. And the flagship machine it is coordinating still runs on German lenses. Eleanor Olcott and Zijing Wu reported the arrangement for the Financial Times, citing …

China has 70% of a material AI needs, IQE’s CEO warns, Bloomberg reports
China has 70% of a material AI needs, IQE’s CEO warns, Bloomberg reports

A Welsh chipmaker has just posted a 40% jump in revenue. Its shares are up 849% this year. And its chief executive has told an interviewer that the industry has a supply problem it cannot fully solve. Sofia Gerace reported the interview for Bloomberg. …

EU trade chief will ask CEOs how much decoupling from China they can afford
EU trade chief will ask CEOs how much decoupling from China they can afford

The European Commission has a plan to loosen China’s grip on the supply chains that feed European industry, and before it proposes the plan formally, it wants to find out how much of it companies are prepared to pay for. Trade commissioner Maroš Šefčov…

Huawei faces a US racketeering trial in New York this week
Huawei faces a US racketeering trial in New York this week

Huawei goes on trial in New York this week, seven years after the United States charged it. Jury selection begins on Tuesday. The company is accused of racketeering, stealing trade secrets, wire fraud and bank fraud, and it denies all of it. Larry Neum…

Malaysia weighs Huawei chips for sovereign AI, Bloomberg reports
Malaysia weighs Huawei chips for sovereign AI, Bloomberg reports

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 particul…

Belgian chip researcher held since May over secrets allegedly sent to China
Belgian chip researcher held since May over secrets allegedly sent to China

Belgian prosecutors have held a 52-year-old man in pre-trial detention since 10 May on suspicion of passing chip-making secrets to China. He holds Belgian and Chinese nationality. Police arrested him at Brussels Airport as he was about to board a fligh…

Xiaomi launches four SkyNomad SUVs in China from $31,275
Xiaomi launches four SkyNomad SUVs in China from $31,275

Xiaomi launched its SkyNomad SUV family in China today, a lineup of four extended-range models that starts at RMB 209,900, or about $31,275.

It’s Xiaomi’s first move into extended-range vehicles, and the entry price lands below China’s established E…