US President Donald Trump on Thursday declared that a deal for TikTok satisfied the requirements of the US’ sale-or-ban law for the Chinese-owned short-video app, punctuating months of deliberations and years of angst in Washington over the app’s security implications. “I have determined that the proposed divestiture would allow the millions of Americans who enjoy…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has issued a warning in relation to the US AI chips. Speaking at the Axios AI+ DC Summit, the Anthropic CEO has urged the US government to again consider its plans to allow chipmakers Nvidia and AMD to continue selling their advanced AI chips to China. Amodie’s AI startup is backed…
Shares of chip-design software maker Synopsys plummeted in extended trading after warning that US export restrictions are contributing to a slowdown in China, the largest market for semiconductors. As part of the company’s quarterly report on Tuesday, CEO Sassine Ghazi said that a push to develop its own intellectual property (IP) was not achieving the…
India’s lobbyist in Washington DC Jason Miller met with US President Donald Trump this week. Miller, a former Trump aide, was hired by India as a lobbyist in April this year, with an annual contract to the tune of $1.8 million. Jason Miller shared a photo from the White House saying that he had a…
Hong Kong’s eight public universities have the capacity to take in more non-local students and the quota can be raised further without undue delay, the city’s education minister has said, revealing some have already hit the 40 per cent threshold in the new academic year. In an exclusive interview with the Post, Secretary for Education…
Nvidia (NVDA) is working with the US government to bring a follow-up to its H20 chip to China, CEO Jensen Huang told reporters while traveling in Taiwan. The new chip would be based on Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture but not as powerful as the B200 AI processor the company sells to US companies and abroad. “I’m…
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…
A United States government employee has been barred from leaving China while on a personal visit, the US State Department said on Monday, marking the latest flashpoint in the strained relations between Washington and Beijing. The employee, who works for the US Patent and Trademark Office under the Department of Commerce, was reportedly subjected…
An American citizen who works for the US government has been blocked from leaving China for months, possibly on national security grounds, after travelling there recently, the South China Morning Post has learned. A source familiar with the matter said that a naturalised US citizen, originally from China, was detained by authorities upon landing in…
The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday ruled that the US Defence Department’s finding that Hesai contributes “to the Chinese defence industrial base” is supported by substantial evidence reflecting lidar’s military application, national security concerns around Chinese lidar makers and Hesai’s cooperation with Chinese agencies. Hesai, whose lidar sensors help self-driving…