Elon Musk’s platform has agreed to review illegal hate and terrorism posts within a day on average, restrict UK-proscribed groups, and report quarterly to the regulator. A separate Ofcom investigation continues. X has agreed to a set of commitments on illegal hate speech and terrorist content with Ofcom, Britain’s communications regulator said on Friday, after […]
Greer told Bloomberg TV the bilateral did not address chip controls, even as Reuters reported the Trump administration cleared Nvidia H200 sales to several Chinese firms after the Xi meeting. Semiconductor export controls were not a major topic at this week’s US-China bilateral meetings in Beijing, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg TV on […]
Washington has approved Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, JD.com, and six others to buy Nvidia’s H200, with each licence good for up to 75,000 units. Beijing has told its tech sector to wait, and Jensen Huang has now been added to Trump’s Beijing trip to try to break the deadlock. The US has cleared roughly 10 Chinese […]
Beijing’s foreign ministry hit the MATCH Act on the eve of the Xi summit, with a 150-day alignment deadline for Japan and the Netherlands at the heart of the legislation Beijing has sharpened its criticism of US legislation that would tighten controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, on the morning Donald Trump arrived in the Chinese […]
Digital transformation minister Óscar López says ‘the profit of four tech companies cannot come at the expense of the rights of millions’ as Madrid’s regulatory package moves through parliament. Spain’s digital transformation minister, Óscar López, said on Wednesday that Madrid would press ahead with a slate of rules targeting social media platforms and high-risk artificial […]
The European Commission president said an EU age-verification app is technically complete and that bloc-level rules on minimum social-media ages are next. France, Spain, and several others are already moving alone. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday set out the EU’s plan to extend protections for children online, telling MEPs the bloc’s […]
The US Commerce Department has removed from its website the details of an agreement under which Microsoft, Google, and xAI agreed to submit new AI models to government scientists for security testing before release, Reuters reported on Monday. The original page, posted on 5 May, said the three companies would hand over their frontier AI […]
The Nvidia CEO is not on the list of US executives travelling to Beijing for the Trump-Xi summit. Apple’s Tim Cook and Tesla’s Elon Musk are among those attending; the trip’s focus is reportedly agriculture, manufacturing, and aviation. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will not join President Donald Trump’s business delegation to China this week, Reuters […]
An entry-level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid at least $162,000 a year to qualify for an H-1B visa under a Trump-administration proposal published in March, The same role in Dallas would jump to about $113,000; in New York, $132,000. The increases run nearly 30% above the current minimums in each […]
After two failed trilogues, Parliament and Council finally landed a compromise that pushes the high-risk compliance deadline to December 2027, lightens paperwork for smaller firms, and writes a long-promised ban on non-consensual intimate imagery into Europe’s flagship AI law. The European Commission confirmed on Wednesday that negotiators from the Parliament and the Council had finally […]
