Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited the White House on Thursday to discuss how the company can support Trump administration efforts to strengthen US tech leadership, company spokesman Andy Stone said in a post on social media. The Facebook co-founder has repeatedly said in recent weeks that he is optimistic that US President Donald Trump…
A senior U.S. lawmaker says representatives of Elon Musk were granted “full access” to a U.S. Treasury payments system used to disperse trillions of dollars to Americans each year, and warned that Musk’s access to the system poses a “national security risk.” Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon and ranking member of the…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Gov is a new tailored version of ChatGPT designed to provide US government agencies with an additional way to access OpenAI’s frontier models. In the blog post, the company said that by making ChatGPT available to the US government, OpenAI aims to ensure “AI serves the national interest and the public good, aligned…
US government faces a “Fork in the road,” just as Twitter did when Musk bought the company in 2022. Musk’s Twitter job cuts were partly driven by the need to save money for big debt payments. US government debt has also soared, leaving annual interest payments over $1 trillion. President Donald Trump‘s administration has launched…
China has pledged to defend its ‘national interests’ against US sanctions, as Donald Trump plans to impose tariff hike on China, Mexico and Canada, as part of his strategy to combat the flow of illegal drugs, including fentanyl, to the US. US President Donald Trump has relaunched the trade war with China, by threatening to…
China is “not dreading” Donald Trump’s return to the White House and might actually benefit in several ways despite fears of “rockier” times ahead, a noted Chinese political scientist has said. How the rivalry turns out will depend on reforms at home and whether China can “do a better job” of it, according to Yan…
The US government has launched a national-security investigation into TP-Link, the China-founded router maker whose equipment now dominates the American market and has been targeted in repeated Chinese cyberattacks, people familiar with the matter said. The investigation opens a new front in the US push to crack down on China-linked technology firms deemed a possible…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned there will be no winner in a tariff or tech war between China and the US and vowed that Beijing would firmly safeguard its interests. The comments came after US president-elect Donald Trump told US broadcaster NBC on Friday that he and Xi “have been communicating with each other…
The mother of Austin Tice, the American journalist abducted in Syria in 2012, told reporters Friday that her son is believed to be alive and is being “treated well,” without providing further details. The mother of Austin Tice, the American journalist abducted in Syria in 2012, told reporters on Friday that her son is believed…
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China and economy stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Mainland China sanctions 13 US companies over weapons sales to Taiwan Mainland China has slapped sanctions on 13 US defence companies, along with executives of other firms,…