Huawei unveils ‘Tau Scaling Law’ as China’s workaround for US chip sanctions
Huawei unveils ‘Tau Scaling Law’ as China’s workaround for US chip sanctions

He Tingbo used a Shanghai keynote to argue that cutting signal-propagation time, not shrinking transistors, is the new frontier, and that Huawei has been quietly building chips around the idea for six years. Huawei used the opening day of the IEEE Inte…

Two Amazon data centres in the UAE were hit by drones. The Gulf’s AI ambitions are being tested.
Two Amazon data centres in the UAE were hit by drones. The Gulf’s AI ambitions are being tested.

Two Amazon Web Services data centres in the UAE were targeted early in the Middle East war. Nearly three months later, oil prices remain around $100 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The Gulf’s ambition to become a global AI hub is faci…

The US blacklisted Anthropic as a security threat. Its spy agencies are using Claude anyway.
The US blacklisted Anthropic as a security threat. Its spy agencies are using Claude anyway.

The US government has a problem it cannot publicly resolve. The Pentagon has officially blacklisted Anthropic as a national security supply chain threat. The NSA is using Anthropic’s AI anyway because there is no alternative. White House chief of staff…

South Korea’s deputy PM says AI wealth must benefit the public. The Samsung strike showed why.
South Korea’s deputy PM says AI wealth must benefit the public. The Samsung strike showed why.

South Korea’s Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon said the wealth created by artificial intelligence must benefit the wider public, warning that the labour tensions that nearly shut down Samsung Electronics this week are not an isolated event but a pr…

Wingtech sues Nexperia in Chinese court over Dutch government’s semiconductor seizure
Wingtech sues Nexperia in Chinese court over Dutch government’s semiconductor seizure

Wingtech Technology has filed a lawsuit against its own subsidiary, Nexperia, in a Chinese court. The case, lodged at the Dongguan Intermediate People’s Court, seeks at least 8 billion yuan, roughly $1.1 billion, in damages. It is the first major legal…

Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund objects to John Elkann’s reappointment to Meta’s board
Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund objects to John Elkann’s reappointment to Meta’s board

Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, has withheld its vote on the reappointment of John Elkann to Meta’s board of directors. The fund said it believes the Stellantis chairman and Exor CEO does not have eno…

Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts
Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts

Operazione Tutto Chiaro hit more than 100 sites across Italy, France, and Germany, targeting a system that rebroadcast legitimate subscription codes every three minutes. Italy’s Guardia di Finanza said on Friday it had dismantled an audiovisual piracy …

HHS launches AI initiative to detect fraud and waste in federal health programmes
HHS launches AI initiative to detect fraud and waste in federal health programmes

The Department of Health and Human Services is moving from “pay and chase” to real-time AI screening across Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP and the Marketplace. The US Department of Health and Human Services has launched an artificial intelligence initiative …

UN draft protocol would expand nations’ right to tax tech giants
UN draft protocol would expand nations’ right to tax tech giants

A May 5 draft, due to be discussed in New York in August, takes aim at where digital revenue is taxed and by whom. A new draft protocol circulating inside the United Nations tax process would let countries tax companies like Google, Amazon and Meta bas…

IBM lands $1bn as US backs nine quantum companies for $2bn
IBM lands $1bn as US backs nine quantum companies for $2bn

Nine CHIPS Act letters of intent, $1bn for IBM, and a government cap table that now includes most of the publicly traded quantum names. The US Department of Commerce has signed nine letters of intent to provide $2.013bn in CHIPS Act funding to quantum …