The US officially gave NVIDIA the go ahead to sell the company’s H200 AI chips to China

Presiden Donald Trump akhirnya membenarkan cip kecerdasan buatan (AI) NVIDIA H200 dijual kepada China dengan Amerika Syarikat akan menerima potongan 25% daripada setiap jualan

Blackwell and Rubin kit remain off limits US President Donald Trump has signalled he will allow Nvidia to resume sales of its H200 accelerators to China.

Nvidia had been at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war between the US and China in recent months.

The Trump administration will allow Nvidia to resume selling H200 chips to China, but only if the U.S

The U.S government will take a 25% cut, according to the president.

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday called a fine imposed on Elon Musk's social media company X by European Union tech regulators "a nasty one" and said he did not understand how they could justify the move

Dec 8 (Reuters) - The developer of the most popular app used to share information about sightings of federal immigration agents sued the Trump administration on Monday, alleging free speech violations after Apple removed ICEBlock from its online store

Trump vows to sign AI executive order this week.

Nvidia and chip rival Advanced Micro Devices agreed over the summer to share 15% of the revenue from China chip sales with the U.S

ICEBlock creator sues to protect apps that are crowd-sourcing ICE sightings.

Suit argues forcing Apple to remove app, and threatening dev with legal action is a First Amendment violation Does the first amendment allow citizens to track law enforcement activity? After publishing an iOS app that shows where ICE agents have deployed, ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron saw the Trump admin pressure Apple into pulling the software and threaten him with prosecution

According to CNBC , Paramount executives believe that the company's smaller size and cozy relationship with the Trump administration will help streamline the regulatory process. Over the weekend, President Donald Trump said that Netflix's bid for WBD has "got to go through a process, and well see what happens

A MAGA rift?

ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron claims that the removal is a suppression of free speech

If the AI industry crashes, NVIDIA will be one of the first victims. Devindra Hardawar, Senior reporter Tech billionaires US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk (L) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 30, 2025

The EPA has revised its assessment of the health risks posed by the carcinogen, less than a year after the Biden administration issued its own verdict.

The makers of ICEBlock , the community-based reporting app for ICE sightings and activity, are suing the federal government, alleging "unlawful threats" made by Trump administration officials led to the app's removal from app stores

Dec 8 (Reuters) - Netflix's $72 billion Warner Bros deal led to several price target cuts by Wall Street analysts as U.S. President Donald Trump warned of market-share concerns, underscoring the tough scrutiny that the acquisition is likely to face

After Netflix announced that it was acquiring Warner Bros

The planned deal would cement Netflix in its position as the world's biggest subscription streaming service.

United States President Donald Trump has shown strong interest in Kei cars (compact cars) during his visits to Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea

Will we even remember this absurdity in a few days?

Plus: The Trump administration declines to issue sanctions over Salt Typhoons hacking spree, officials warn of a disturbingly stealthy Chinese malware specimen, .

sinij shares news of the Trump administration surprising the auto industry by granting approval for "tiny cars" to be built in the United States. Bloomberg reports: President Donald Trump, apparently enamored by the pint-sized Kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, has paved the way for them to be made and sold in the U.S., despite concerns that they're too small and slow to be driven safely on American roads

The idea sounds similar to Trump's "freedom cities" first pitched in 2023.

Netflix's $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros

Donald Trump, The Village People, Shaq the 2026 World Cup draw will have everything

SoftBank proposes building multiple industrial parks across the U.S

Dec 5 (Reuters) - Netflix pitched its $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery's studios and streaming divisionas aligned with the priorities of President Donald Trump's competition enforcers on Friday, but intense antitrust scrutiny is all but guaranteed amid bipartisan criticism

BRUSSELS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Europe is forging ahead with its crackdown on Big Tech, levying fines on Alphabet's Google and Elon Musk's X and opening new investigations, asserting its sovereign right to enforce its laws in defiance of U.S. President Donald Trump

A bipartisan group so Senators in the US have unveiled a bill that would block the Trump administration from further loosening rules currently in place, restricting China from gaining access to its advanced AI chips for the next two and a half years

Netflix is in exclusive talks to acquire Warner Bros

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A Donald Trump-backed push has failed to wedge a federal measure that would block states from passing AI laws for a decade into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

Nvidias Jensen Huang successfully lobbied Trump and lawmakers against a proposed AI chip export rule and issued a warning about fragmented state regulation of AI

By rolling back auto industry fuel efficiency goals, US president Donald Trump hopes to make new cars cheaper

The Trump administration might think regulation is killing the AI industry, but Anthropic president Daniela Amodei disagrees.

15, 2024 in Concord, Mass. ASSOCIATED PRESS Elon Musk and Donald Trump's bromance wasn't the only fallout from the latter's second term

Even the first Trump administration had tougher fuel economy targets

Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Car and Driver: [T]he Trump administration announced less stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in an effort to bring down the price of new vehicles

The Department of Transportation under President Donald Trump is moving to reverse more of the climate policies that had been enacted by President Joe Biden

Dec 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump met with chip giant Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday to discuss export controls, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: Five months after releasing a plan to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is turning to robots

Letting AI firms train on copyrighted data will end up helping China, conservative groups argue A group of conservatives allied with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, including former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, has asked the Justice Department and the White House to stop protecting Big Tech against copyright claims.

"Today, we're taking one more step to kill the 'Green New Scam,'" Trump said.

Istari CEO Will Roper was assistant secretary of the Air Force under President Donald Trump's first term and worked with Space Force.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told reporters on Capitol Hill that he had just met with President Trump, and the two "talked in general about export controls."

Widespread and powerful movement keeps Trump from blocking state AI laws.

A first-in-the-nation heating and cooling network in Massachusetts is set to double in size.

Trump says state-level AI regulations are hampering US growth as Chinese competition intensifies

AT&T accused of "financial play to curry favor" with Trump administration.

The Trump administration has been virtually begging immigrants in the US to self-deport, even offering money

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The San Francisco city attorney filed on Tuesday the nation's first government lawsuit against food manufacturers over ultraprocessed fare (source may be paywalled; alternative source), arguing that cities and counties have been burdened with the costs of treating diseases that stem from the companies' products

The last Trump official in the position left amid allegations of petty revenge

This year has been big for air taxi technology companies, which have seen a boost from President Donald Trump's pilot program to develop the sector.

The donation will help seed new Trump-branded investment accounts.

Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion to boost participation in the new "Trump Accounts" child investment program

Isaacman backs Texas relocation amid warnings that costs could top $150M US President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, is "committed to move the Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston," according to the office of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX).

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million into a startup (source paywalled; alternative source) trying to develop more advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques in the U.S., its latest bid to support strategically important domestic industries with government incentives

A key driver of US renewable energy research is now the National Laboratory of the Rockies.

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The system, dubbed the "Michelangelo Dome" in a nod to Israel's Iron Dome and U.S. President Donald Trump's plans for a "Golden Dome," will integrate multiple defense systems to detect and neutralize threats from sea to air including missile attacks and drone swarms..

Despite an August release announcement and the collection of US$100 (RM413) deposits for the US$499 (RM2,060) device, there is still no evidence that the product presented in gold colour and with the American flag on the back is actually ready for the market

European leaders have spent years warning that the continent risked falling behind the U.S., China and Russia in the global contest for economic, technological and military dominance, and officials now believe they have reached that point

An anonymous reader shares a report: The Pentagon concluded that Alibaba Group, Baidu and BYD should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military, according to a letter to Congress sent roughly three weeks before Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to a broad trade truce

"Stop this boring insider trading," one X user complained.

The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers

"Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys," said Trump.

DOE told to build a unified research platform linking federal compute, datasets, and national labs US President Trump has ordered the launch of the "Genesis Mission," a national effort to use AI to drive scientific discoveries, with the aim of strengthening America's technological leadership and global competitiveness.

President Donald Trump has issued a new Executive Order that launches the Genesis Mission , an AI-focused initiative that will be led by the Department of Energy

There's a real plan here, of sorts.

BrianFagioli writes: President Trump has issued a sweeping executive order that creates the Genesis Mission, a national AI program he compares to a Manhattan Project level effort

(Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to launch a government-wide effort to build an integrated artificial intelligence platform to harness federal scientific datasets to train next-generation technologies

The PAC is mobilizing as President Donald Trump's White House and congressional Republicans are working to suppress states' ability to implement AI laws.

Is it located in the same place as the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare?