Chinese EVs are circling the US market. Detroit’s best option may be to partner with them.
Chinese EVs are circling the US market. Detroit’s best option may be to partner with them.

Chinese electric vehicles face 125% cumulative tariffs, a proposed Senate ban, and fierce opposition from lawmakers and the US auto industry. But there is a growing possibility that Chinese EVs will be sold in the US within the next few years. The rout…

Trump wants the American public to own a piece of OpenAI. Nobody knows how that would work.
Trump wants the American public to own a piece of OpenAI. Nobody knows how that would work.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will likely meet with AI companies at the White House next week to discuss what he called a federal government “partnership” that would let the American public profit from the industry’s success. “There a…

Trump officials fear a loophole let Chinese firms buy Nvidia Blackwells
Trump officials fear a loophole let Chinese firms buy Nvidia Blackwells

The gap, officials worry, let Chinese companies acquire banned chips through overseas subsidiaries. New guidance is meant to close it, after the chips may already have moved. The export ban worked on paper and leaked in practice. Trump administration o…

US officials have discussed taking government stakes in AI companies
US officials have discussed taking government stakes in AI companies

The idea is unusual enough that it took a moment to register: the United States government, owning a slice of the companies building frontier AI. According to a report by NOTUS, senior US officials have held preliminary discussions with major AI compan…

Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release
Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, ending weeks of internal White House conflict over how aggressively to regulate the technology. T…

The White House is at war with itself over who gets to regulate AI
The White House is at war with itself over who gets to regulate AI

The Trump administration is locked in an internal battle over artificial intelligence regulation that has paralysed federal AI policy at the moment it matters most. Three factions are fighting for control: the Commerce Department, which has been quietl…

Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI, naming Altman personally and calling ChatGPT a defective product
Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI, naming Altman personally and calling ChatGPT a defective product

Florida has sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in what appears to be the first lawsuit by a US state against the maker of ChatGPT. The civil complaint, filed Monday in state court by Attorney General James Uthmeier, accuses OpenAI of violating product liab…

A strike at one Michigan axle plant could choke production of GM’s most profitable vehicles
A strike at one Michigan axle plant could choke production of GM’s most profitable vehicles

Nearly 1,000 unionised workers at a Dauch Corp plant in Three Rivers, Michigan, walked off the job at midnight on Sunday after the United Auto Workers declared an unfair labour practice strike over stalled contract negotiations. The factory makes axles…

Pentagon gives Dell a $9.7bn contract to consolidate Microsoft licences across the military
Pentagon gives Dell a $9.7bn contract to consolidate Microsoft licences across the military

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,…

The Qualcomm-ByteDance ASIC deal works around US export controls by design
The Qualcomm-ByteDance ASIC deal works around US export controls by design

The TikTok parent will buy millions of Qualcomm application-specific chips for AI data centres and use Qualcomm to take its own design from blueprint to production. Qualcomm has struck a deal to supply ByteDance with millions of application-specific in…