Amid live coding sessions and Silicon Valley optimism, the UN's AI for Good summit wrestled with an increasingly urgent question: Can global governance catch up before the technology races beyond its control? Dodge past the live onstage coding sessions, AI refresher courses, an obstacle course of gizmos, round people walking round with glowing green silent-disco-style headphones blaring UN panel discussions into your ears, and you can take a pause for breath. But you might find yourself in the Networking Zone, on a rotating seating contraption called UFOTECH that looks more like the kind of lazy Susan you'd encounter at a Chinese restaurant than the networking bench it is designed to function as. This is the AI for Good summit, organized by the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU), where representatives from the private and public sectors try to discuss how to harness the technology for the benefit, rather than the detriment, of humanity. While Silicon Valley execs and AI lab leaders are testifying to lawmakers in Washington about the risks of superintelligence, and the White House slaps export controls on chips, the UN AI for Good Summit--now in its 10th year--is focused on much more idealistic goals.

AI maker Anthropic says the US government has lifted an export ban on its powerful Mythos and Fable systems. AI maker Anthropic says the US government has lifted an export ban on its powerful Mythos and Fable systems. Anthropic has said the US commerce department has lifted export controls on its Fable and Mythos AI models, less than three weeks after the company was ordered to suspend access to its most advanced AI models over national security risks. "We'll begin restoring access tomorrow," Anthropic said in a statement on X late on Tuesday. US authorities blocked access to the models on national security grounds several weeks ago, but in a letter to Anthropic seen by Reuters, US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, said the export controls were withdrawn and that a licence was no longer required for their export.

The Trump White House Is Over Anthropic's Dario Amodei At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Anthropic's CEO--a weirdo, per one official--has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown. The Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately, according to people familiar with the matter: They don't have to deal with CEO Dario Amodei anymore, because he's been replaced in meetings about re-releasing the Claude Fable 5 AI model by his cofounder Tom Brown. "Tom Brown is not being a weirdo like Dario and can actually engage," said one person directly familiar with the calls. The administration has not yet lifted the export controls that took Anthropic's most powerful models offline on June 12 after the National Security Agency affirmed there were ways to disable guardrails and access the more powerful capabilities of the company's restricted Mythos model. But the administration has had multiple calls with Anthropic in recent days, encouraged by the fact that Brown and Anthropic's public policy chief, Sarah Heck, have been leading the outreach.

Samples of rare earth luminescent materials displayed at an exhibition on China's manufacturing achievements at the National Museum in Beijing in March | REUTERS China's tightening export controls on dual-use materials and strategically important rare earths are beginning to disrupt Japanese industry -- including the defense sector. Chinese customs data tell the sharpest part of the story. Exports of dysprosium oxide to Japan ceased after October 2025, and shipments of terbium oxide ended a month later. No shipments of either material have been recorded since. The halt matters because dysprosium and terbium -- both heavy rare earth elements -- are among the most critical inputs for high-performance permanent magnets used in advanced military systems, electric vehicle motors, aerospace applications and industrial robotics.

This is how America loses the AI race. In theory, Donald Trump has a consistent position on AI. On the first full day of his second term, the president declared that he would use his full authority to speed the AI industry along and, in particular, to beat China in the AI race: "We have an emergency," he said. "We have to get this stuff built." If AI is poised to become the most important technology ever made, the thinking goes, whichever country commands the most powerful bots will dominate the rest of the century and beyond. The government, it seemed, would just get out of Silicon Valley's way.

A trio linked with a US technology supplier have been charged over a ploy to smuggle American artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China, the Department of Justice said on Thursday. The individuals allegedly conspired to sell billions of dollars' worth of technology to buyers in China by faking documents and using dummy equipment to slip past audits, according to the DOJ. The goods in question included Nvidia-made semiconductors, highly coveted AI chips which are subject to export controls. In August 2025, two Chinese nationals were also arrested and charged with illegally shipping millions of dollars' worth of Nvidia chips to China. The DOJ said in a statement on Thursday that it had arrested US-citizen Yih-Shyan Wally Liaw and Taiwanese citizen Ting-Wei Willy Sun, while Ruei-Tsang Steven Chang, a Taiwanese citizen, remains a fugitive.

Jensen Huang was riding high. The name of the company he runs, Nvidia, is a play on the Latin word for . But when asked last month, Huang could not think of a single thing he is envious of. "I have a pretty great life," he said toward the end of a 75-minute interview with TIME, before tallying a list of things he is grateful for: his happy marriage, his adult children, and his two dogs, who earlier that day both received the all-clear on their ultrasounds. Then, of course, there was his professional life: running the world's most valuable company, worth some $4.3 trillion.

What are the implications of Trump's Somali'garbage' comments? What happens if the US attacks Venezuela? Does'America First' make the US weaker? What we know about the DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. US President Donald Trump has cleared the way for tech giant Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 chip to China, in a significant easing of Washington's export controls targeting Chinese tech. Trump said on Monday that he had informed Chinese President Xi Jinping of the decision to allow the export of the chip under an arrangement that will see 25 percent of sales paid to the US government.

China's AI is quietly making big inroads in Silicon Valley China's AI models are quickly gaining traction in Silicon Valley, becoming integral to the operations of American companies and earning the praise of a growing list of tech leaders. Their rapid ascent has highlighted the competitive edge that Chinese developers such as Alibaba, Z.ai, Moonshot, and MiniMax have been able to gain by offering so-called "open" language models at much lower costs than their rivals in the United States. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky generated headlines in October when he revealed that the short-term rental platform had opted for Alibaba's Qwen over OpenAI's ChatGPT, praising the Chinese model as "fast and cheap". Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya revealed the same month that his company had migrated much of its work to Moonshot's Kimi K2 as it was "way more performant" and "a ton cheaper" than models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Programmers on social media also recently highlighted evidence that two popular US-developed coding assistants, Composer and Windsurf, were built on Chinese models.

Is the US eyeing its next Latin American target? Why is Trump tearing down parts of the White House? Trump-Xi meeting: What's at stake and who has the upper hand? United States President Donald Trump expects "a lot of problems" will be solved between Washington and Beijing when he meets China's President Xi Jinping in South Korea for a high-stakes meeting on Thursday, amid growing trade tensions between the two. Relations between the two world powers have been strained in recent years, with Washington and Beijing imposing tit-for-tat trade tariffs topping 100 percent against each other this year, the US restricting its exports of semiconductors vital for artificial intelligence (AI) development and Beijing restricting exports of critical rare-earth metals which are vital for the defence industry and also the development of AI, among other issues. On the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Wednesday, Trump said an expected trade deal between China and the US would be good for both countries and "something very exciting for everybody".