The Trump administration is considering adding several major Chinese semiconductor companies to a U.S. export blacklist, a move that could further escalate tensions with Beijing and complicate ongoing trade negotiations. According to
China’s ByteDance is developing its own artificial intelligence chip and is in discussions with Samsung Electronics to manufacture it, according to people familiar with the matter, in a move that underscores intensifying
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Japan is facing mounting pressure to reduce its heavy reliance on rare earth imports from China as political tensions between Tokyo and Beijing continue to deepen. The challenge has taken on new
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Global financial markets are proving to be sensitive to political rhetoric and international conflicts once again, in an age where geopolitical processes can rapidly outweigh economic fundamentals. January 20, 2026, was not
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei delivered a blistering critique of the U.S. administration and leading chipmakers at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, denouncing the decision to approve the sale of
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Danish shipping company Maersk said on Friday that one of its vessels has successfully navigated the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait for the first time in nearly two years, though
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Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek is said to have relied on Nvidia Corp. chips that are banned from sale in China to develop an upcoming AI model, according to a report by
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Mexico’s Congress is set to vote this week on a proposed slate of tariffs targeting imports from China, part of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s broader strategy to shield domestic producers and ease trade
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America has already lost the chip war with China, and the origin story explains why: the semiconductor stack was built as an instrument of state power—an architecture that fixed roles and chokepoints
More A severe worldwide shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence developers, cloud providers and consumer-electronics manufacturers into fierce competition for rapidly shrinking supplies, according to a detailed investigation by Reuters. The
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The West’s effort to establish a domestic rare earth magnets supply chain, heavily supported by the U.S., is hitting a critical obstacle: a shortage of heavy rare earth elements, according to multiple
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