Senate Democrats Press Bessent on Oversight of China Investments

Senate Democrats Press Bessent on Oversight of China Investments

Senate Democrats are pushing the Trump administration for more information on US efforts to prevent American private equity and venture capital firms from bankrolling advances by China and other adversaries in key technologies including artificial intelligence and quantum computing. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, five Democratic senators demanded a update on plans…

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Riyadh and Beijing Push Ahead With Tech Cooperation as Saudi Firms Distance From Huawei

Riyadh and Beijing Push Ahead With Tech Cooperation as Saudi Firms Distance From Huawei

Saudi Arabia and China are moving to deepen their already sizeable cooperation across a range of advanced technologies. The kingdom’s National Industrial Development Center held a meeting on Wednesday with a delegation comprising leaders of 30 leading Chinese companies. Led by the Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Alkhorayef, they talked … Source link

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Pony.ai debut, Hong Kong, WeRide, AI stocks

Pony.ai debut, Hong Kong, WeRide, AI stocks

Hong Kong Skyline Nikada | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets rose Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains after AMD’s third-quarter earnings beat lifted artificial intelligence stocks. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 1.45%, while the Topix index climbed 1.11%. Japanese artificial intelligence-related companies rose: Advantest, which supplies testing equipment to Nvidia, was up 3.73%,…

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‘China is going to win the AI race,’ FT reports

(Reuters) -Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that China will beat the United States in the artificial intelligence race, ​the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. “China is going to win the AI ‌race,” Huang told the newspaper on the sidelines of the Financial Times’ Future of ‌AI Summit. The artificial intelligence chip leader’s chief in…

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AI is not in a bubble says VC founder

AI is not in a bubble says VC founder

Whether or not markets are getting ahead of themselves over artificial intelligence is a hot topic for investors right now. Last week, billionaire investor Ray Dalio said his personal “bubble indicator” was relatively high, while Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell described the AI boom as “different” from the dotcom bubble. For Magnus Grimeland, founder of…

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