Sylvia Varnham O'Regan

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that President Donald Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, could this week “consummate” a long-anticipated deal to keep TikTok operating in the U.S., as the leaders prepare to meet Thursday in South Korea.President Trump recently signed an executive order approving the proposed deal, which involves selling some of TikTok’s U.S. business to a new

White House officials discouraged President Donald Trump from raising the topic of exporting Nvidia’s advanced AI chips to China during a recent meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang had lobbied the president directly to allow access to the Chinese market, with a goal of selling Nvidia’s advanced Blackwell chip to

This spring, Google AI leader Noam Shazeer posted a comment in one of the company’s internal discussion forums, in response to a post about how Google employees could support their transgender and nonbinary colleagues on International Transgender Day of Visibility. “I do not believe that humans ...

The White House is pausing plans for an executive order over state AI regulation while it waits to see if Republicans can get a provision included in the National Defense Authorization Act to block state AI regulation, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.A draft copy of the executive order, which was first reported by The Information on Wednesday, directed Attorney General

A group of people concerned about safety issues around artificial intelligence are forming a network of super PACs to back candidates from both parties in the midterm elections, The New York Times reports. The effort, led by Democratic former Congressman Brad Carson, is a response to the work of Leading the Future, a recently formed network of PACs—backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI

The Trump administration has launched a new program, dubbed “Tech Force,” to recruit engineers to work on artificial intelligence inside federal agencies.People who sign up for the two-year program will “work in teams reporting directly to agency leadership” and will collaborate with partner tech companies including Google, Meta, Apple, OpenAI and xAI, according to a government website .

The Trump administration has threatened to impose penalties on European technology companies in response to a pattern of what it says are “discriminatory and harassing lawsuits, taxes, fines, and directives” against American tech companies.In a post on X , the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative pointed to several European firms, including Mistral, Spotify and Accenture, arguing these

The engineers who wreaked havoc on Washington are ready for their second act.