President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday (September 16) that the United States and China have struck a deal that will allow TikTok to continue operating in America, potentially ending a months-long standoff over the app’s ownership. The agreement would transfer TikTok’s US assets from its Chinese parent, ByteDance, to American owners. Trump did not disclose…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that he expected a final agreement on the ByteDance-owned short-video app TikTok to be reached when US President Donald Trump speaks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday. China had a long list of demands during talks in Madrid this week, Bessent said. He described the negotiations…
Nvidia’s RTX6000D, its newest artificial intelligence chip tailored for the Chinese market, has seen only lukewarm demand with some major tech firms opting not to place orders, two people with knowledge of procurement discussions said. The RTX6000D, designed mainly for AI inference tasks, is seen as expensive for what it does, according to the two…
The Donald Trump administration confirmed on Monday that it has reached a framework agreement with China to keep TikTok operational in the United States. The deal comes after years of tense negotiations and political wrangling over national security concerns tied to TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, that began during Donald Trump’s first term as US…
US President Donald Trump said on Monday (September 15) that trade talks with China had “gone very well” and suggested that a deal had been reached to resolve US concerns over TikTok’s ownership. In a post on his social media platform, Trump said the ongoing trade meeting in Europe between American and Chinese officials was…
The Trump administration is expected to again extend a September 17 deadline for China’s ByteDance to divest the US assets of short-video app TikTok or shut it down, sources told Reuters as the US-China talks entered second day. If allowed, it would be the fourth reprieve granted by US President Donald Trump from federal enforcement…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng are set to meet in Madrid next week, keeping alive high-level talks on trade, security and economic flashpoints, both Washington and Beijing confirmed on Friday. The talks will run for four days, starting on Sunday, according to China’s Commerce Ministry. “The two sides will…
An abrupt decision by American artificial intelligence firm Anthropic to restrict service to Chinese-owned entities anywhere in the world has cast uncertainty over some Claude-dependent overseas tools backed by China’s tech giants. After Anthropic’s notice on Friday that it would upgrade access restrictions to entities “more than 50 per cent owned … by companies headquartered…
China is making progress in artificial intelligence “agentic frameworks”, the tools required to make AI agents, as the country’s tech giants begin to take on US players such as AutoGen and OpenAI Swarm. Tencent Holdings was the latest to join the fray after the Shenzhen-based company open-sourced its new Youtu-Agent agentic framework on Tuesday. Developed…
The law, which was issued in March, requires explicit and implicit labels for AI-generated text, images, audio, video and other virtual content. Explicit markings must be clearly visible to users, while implicit identifiers – such as digital watermarks – should be embedded in the metadata. The country’s top internet watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration of China…