Deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars, involving a vast number of advanced AI chips, plus data centres in US, were unveiled in the Middle East this week, despite long-held fears about Gulf nations ties to China

President pushes Tim Cook to build iPhone plants in the US; says Delhi offered to drop tariffs on US exports in their push for a trade deal

US senators have introduced a bill to stop batteries being purchased from six Chinese companies, amid concern domestic power grids could be destabilised, after rogue devices were found in Chinese solar power inverters

Trump administration officials are looking to dump the tiered approach to access to advanced chips and shift to a global licensing regime with government-to-government agreements, sources say

US Treasury hits a militia linked to Myanmar's military regime for enabling huge scam operations in its region, days after announcing a ban on dealings with a financial group in Cambodia

Lawmaker says technology to track chips is readily available, while there is bipartisan support for requiring companies like Nvidia to build location-tracking into their high-powered AI chips

Japan says tariffs imposed on autos, steel and aluminium cannot be excluded from trade talks, because the auto sector is a core national industry

Huawei has approached some Chinese tech companies about testing the technical feasibility of its new chip, the Ascend 910D

Lawmakers are concerned about 3 Chinese firms despite bans on them providing telecom services, as they still run equipment, software and cloud-based systems in the US

Large-scale scam centres have expanded from Southeast Asia to regions all across the world, according to a new UN report

Top chip designer takes a $5.5 billion hit from US security clampdown, curbing sales of its H20 AI chip to cloud giants in China

The orders for Nvidia's H20 chip - the most advanced semiconductor the group is permitted to sell to China – came in the first three months of this year, a report by The Information said