The exemption is narrower than the announcement makes it sound. On Tuesday the US Federal Communications Commission said it would again allow new models of Chinese toy drones to be imported, six months after it barred new foreign-made drones outright. The relief is real, but it has been defined so tightly that the word ‘toy’ […]
The decision had, in effect, already been made. According to people familiar with the matter, reports Reuters, a US interagency committee approved adding the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, the memory-chip maker CXMT and more than 100 other companies flagged as national-security risks to the Commerce Department’s Entity List last year. What has not happened, and […]
The US Army has commissioned three more technology executives into Detachment 201, the reserve unit that gives Silicon Valley leaders the rank of lieutenant colonel and a direct advisory line to senior military officials. Dane Knecht, chief technology officer of Cloudflare, Sam Pullara, CTO and managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures, and Serkan Piantino, a […]
No company in the AI industry has done more to warn the public about the technology it is building than Anthropic. No company has had those warnings turned against it quite so brutally. In the past six months, Anthropic has published a 19,000-word essay on civilisational risk, weakened its own safety pledge, been designated a […]
The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to ratify the Turnberry Agreement, the trade deal struck at Donald Trump’s Scottish golf resort in July 2025. The final tally was 440 in favour, 151 against, with 50 abstentions. Under the deal, the EU will eliminate most tariffs on US industrial goods. In return, the US caps tariffs on […]
The US Justice Department has taken Elon Musk’s side in a pollution lawsuit, arguing that the gas turbines powering his AI data centre are too important to national security to switch off. In a filing on Monday, the department, joined by the state of Mississippi, asked a court to dismiss the case the NAACP brought […]
France’s domestic intelligence agency is dropping Palantir. The DGSI will replace the American firm’s data-analysis tools with software from ChapsVision, a French company, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday, framing the switch as part of a wider push to put sovereign technology at the centre of the French state. The timing is the part […]
India has temporarily blocked access to Telegram until 22 June, the government said, after concluding that cheating rackets were using the app to defraud candidates sitting a high-stakes medical-entrance re-exam. The order, invoking Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, ties a national app block to a single, fraught testing event. The exam is NEET-UG, […]
Florida has sued TikTok, accusing the app of breaking the state’s law restricting minors’ access to social media and of misleading parents about what their children would find there. Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the suit on 15 June, filing it in St. Lucie County Circuit Court. The complaint alleges TikTok illegally let minors onto the platform, […]
The Canadian government introduced legislation on Monday to overhaul the country’s private-sector privacy laws, including new restrictions on businesses that use personal data to charge individual consumers higher prices. Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, would replace the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, a law first enacted in 1998 that […]
