Global tech leaders recently packed Europe’s annual Web Summit held in Lisbon, Portugal, to talk artificial intelligence, robots and startups. The Web Summit 2025 takes place under the shadow of global tensions over cutting-edge hardware and software and the resources needed to build them. The four-day event is called “Davos for geeks” and is likely…
US President Donald Trump on Sunday said that Nvidia’s advanced Blackwell chip for artificial intelligence (AI) would not be available to “other people,” Reuters reported. Nvidia dominates the AI chip market and recently hit a $5 trillion market capitalisation. Since August, questions have arisen over whether Donald Trump would permit shipments of Blackwell chips to…
Discussions with the White House to allow American AI chip company Nvidia to sell a less advanced version of its next-generation GPU chip to China will take time, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday. When asked about White House talks on Blackwell chip sales to China in a Fox Business News interview, Huang said…
Chinese officials have summoned domestic companies, including major tech firms Tencent and ByteDance, over their purchases of Nvidia’s H20 chips, demanding explanations and expressing concerns about information risks. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and other agencies have also held meetings in recent weeks with Baidu and smaller Chinese tech companies. According to sources speaking…
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had personally negotiated a deal with Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, letting the tech company sell a lower-end chip in China in exchange for part of those sales revenues being paid to the US government. The highly unusual deal was first reported on Sunday by the…