White House plan entails spinning off a US entity for TikTok and diluting Chinese ownership in the unit to below the 20% level required by US law

Baidu has struggled to gain widespread adoption for its Ernie LLM, despite claiming performance comparable to OpenAI's GPT-4

While it is not unusual for Washington to influence private deals of listed companies for strategic reasons, the White House has taken a role similar to an investment bank, analysts say

TSMC proposed setting up a firm with design giants like Nvidia to run Intel's chip fabs, but the US firm's new CEO has told employees he wouldn't split the group up

Potential buyers reportedly include Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft, the YouTube star MrBeast and Frank McCourt

Taiwanese officials maintain TSMC won’t begin producing 2nm chips the US before 2028 amid concern that the chipmaker could lose its geopolitical importance

“Us self-claiming some AGI milestone, that's just nonsensical benchmark hacking to me. The real benchmark is: the world growing at 10%"

TSMC and other chipmakers are watching Trump Administration moves closely amid reports the agency dispersing chip subsidies is set to be gutted by job cuts; Beijing says Taiwan is giving TSMC to the US like a 'souvenir'

Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance have "significantly increased" orders of a Nvidia chip after AI startup's success, and speculation on tougher export curbs; Beijing says plan for tougher curbs will backfire

Nvidia's results this week will put a spotlight on demand for its chips after low-cost AI models from China's DeepSeek raised doubts on the need for big outlays on pricey chips

The tech giant’s shares are up more than 70% so far this year after jumping nearly 90% over the past 12 months

Rumours of TSMC potential tie-up with Intel sparked concern in Taiwan about losing its 'silicon shield' while White House said it was 'unlikely' to hand over American chip facilities to foreigners