In his first post on “AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country,” Huang wrote in X. “Open models strengthen security and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.” On Friday, Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral and others signed an open letter urging US policymakers not to crack down
The Trump administration on Thursday finalized new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners as it seeks to reconstitute sweeping tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court in February. The new tariffs, ranging from 10% to 12.5%, follow a five-month investigation into trading partners’ efforts to remove products made with forced labor from their
Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to cut off access to open-source Chinese AI models or risk crippling the next generation of American startups. On Wednesday, the newly formed Little Tech Association sent letters to President Donald Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and other members
Chris Fall, the Trump administration’s top AI security official, has left after just three months on the job, according to a Commerce Department spokesperson. Fall, who was director of the AI Standards and Innovation Center, has been at the center of the federal government’s voluntary review process of frontier AI models. CAISI is a Department
Vance worked at Mithril Capital, a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel, in 2016. A former coworker previously told Business Insider that Vance was often away from work promoting his book, “Hillbilly Elegy.” Thiel ended up playing an instrumental role in Vance’s rise to power in politics, donating $15 million to his Senate campaign
as cases of With the diarrhea-causing cyclospora parasite on the rise in the United States, former employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the country’s response is being severely hampered by staff cuts at the agency. Amid massive government layoffs implemented last year by President Donald Trump and his so-called Department of