China Maps AI Dominance in $70B Five-Year Plan
China's National People's Congress opens this week with a 15th Five-Year Plan that puts $70 billion in semiconductor subsidies and AI-plus manufacturing at the center of its tech race with the West.
Articles Tagged "AI Policy"
Trump's Plan to Kill State AI Laws Splits the GOP
Trump's executive order threatens to sue any state that regulates AI, but Republican governors, Heritage Foundation allies, and grassroots conservatives are pushing back hard - with Florida's AI Bill of Rights as the test case.
Trump Orders Every Federal Agency to Stop Using Anthropic - Pentagon Brands Company a National Security Risk
President Trump directed all U.S. government agencies to immediately cease using Anthropic's technology after the company refused to drop AI safety guardrails for the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Hegseth designated Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security.
Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Lobby Against Foreign Data Sovereignty Laws - Citing AI and Cloud Risks
A State Department cable signed by Secretary Rubio directs U.S. embassies worldwide to oppose data localization mandates, calling the EU's GDPR 'unnecessarily burdensome' and framing unrestricted cross-border data flows as critical AI infrastructure.
Seven Tech Giants Will Sign Trump's 'Ratepayer Protection Pledge' to Build Their Own Power for AI Data Centers
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will meet at the White House on March 4 to sign a voluntary pledge to build, bring, or buy their own electricity supply for AI data centers - but the agreement has no enforcement mechanism.
IBM Shares Plunge 11% as Anthropic's Claude Code Threatens Its COBOL Empire
IBM suffers its worst single-day drop in years after Anthropic announces Claude Code can automate COBOL modernization. Combined with Trump's 15% global tariff and DOGE contract cancellations, IBM is down 26% in February.
