A mining machine is seen at the Bayan Obo mine containing rare earth minerals, in Inner Mongolia, China. China Stringer Network | Reuters In April 2025, China imposed new export controls on seven rare earth elements and the permanent magnets derived from them — materials that form the foundation of modern life and modern warfare….
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the NVIDIA GTC Paris keynote, part of the 9th edition of the VivaTech technology startup and innovation fair, held at the Dôme de Paris in the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 11, 2025. Mustafa Yalcin | Anadolu | Getty Images Insiders at artificial…
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks to reporters as he leaves the Senate floor in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 13, 2025. Bill Clark | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, N.C., will not run for re-election when his term is up, he announced Sunday, hours after he voted against advancing…
U.S. President Donald Trump is greeted by Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney, as he arrives at the G7 leaders’ summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada June 16, 2025. Stefan Rousseau | Via Reuters Canada has walked back on its digital services tax “in anticipation” of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement with the United States,…
Workers producing garments at a textile factory that supplies clothes to fast fashion e-commerce company Shein in Guangzhou in southern China’s Guangdong province. Jade Gao | Afp | Getty Images China’s manufacturing activity contracted for a third straight month in June, an official survey showed on Monday, despite Beijing’s stimulus efforts helping to stabilize certain…
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on April 4 that he would again postpone enforcement of a law banning TikTok unless its Chinese owner ByteDance divests from the platform. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News in an interview aired on Sunday that he has a group of…
The logo of British oil major BP. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images For weeks, market tongues have been wagging about a potential merger between Britain’s oil giants — until, ending weeks of speculation, Shell on Thursday denied reports that it’s in talks to acquire BP. But how did we get to the point…
With Meta successfully hunting for many of its senior researchers, an OpenII executive on Saturday assured the team members that the company’s leadership is “not useless.” Chief Research Officer Mark Chen wrote, “I just feel a sense of intestine, as if someone is broken in our house and stole something.” A sluggish memorandum received by…
According to President Donald Trump, a group of “very rich people” is set to buy short-form video app Tikktok. “We have a buyer for Tikokok, by the way, Trump Said in a fox news interview Sunday morning. “I think I will probably need China’s approval. I think President Xi [Jinping] Perhaps it will be done….
One Open letter From writers, including Lauren Groff, Lev Grosman, RF Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Jeffrey Maguire, pledge to promise book publishers to limit their use of AI Tools, for example to pledge to hire human audiobook narrators. The letter argued that the authors’ work has been “stolen” by AI companies: “A small percentage of…
