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The UAE has shown it can “guarantee the safety and the security” of chips “if and when they are being deployed and used here,” Peng Xiao, CEO of UAE AI firm G42, told CNBC at a conference in Dubai on Tuesday. “I cannot read the mind of the U.S. policymakers, but in many ways, I understand their position,” Xiao told CNBC. “At the same time from our side, we've shown from the UAE side how transparent we are and how we can guarantee the safety and the security of this technology,” he added. The United States has previously warned over G42's ties to China and its work with companies in Beijing, which Washington considers a possible security threat. In February, the group sold its stake in Chinese companies including Bytedance in a bid to reassure American partners.
Persons: ” Peng Xiao, Joe Biden, , ” Xiao, Kiril Evtimov, Evtimov Organizations: United, United Arab Emirates ’, CNBC, Nvidia, AMD, Bloomberg, , Washington, Bytedance Locations: United Arab, U.S, Washington, UAE, Dubai, China, United States, Beijing
The U.S. government has restricted the export of Nvidia's most advanced chips to China since 2022, with restrictions tightening last year. "These companies have made notable progress in developing AI chips tailored to specific applications (ASICs)," Wei Sun, a senior analyst at Counterpoint Research, told CNBC. China's key challengesThe flags of China and the USA are being displayed on a smartphone, with an NVIDIA chip visible in the background. Huawei leading the packTriolo identified Huawei as one of the leaders in China with its Ascend series of data center processors. In its annual report earlier this year, Nvidia explicitly identified Huawei, among other companies, as a competitor in areas such as chips, software for AI and networking products.
Persons: Nvidia's, China's, Wei Sun, Paul Triolo, Albright Stonebridge, SMIC, TSMC, Triolo, Chip IPOs Organizations: Nvidia, CNBC, Huawei, Alibaba, Baidu, Technology, Counterpoint Research, NVIDIA, Nurphoto, Wall Locations: Beijing, wean, China, U.S, USA, SMIC
This has renewed focus on China's homegrown efforts to rival Nvidia and create semiconductors that can underpin the world's second-largest economy's own AI industry. Huawei then sells these chips as a part of servers that go into data centers to train AI models. Alibaba and BaiduAlibaba and Baidu both buy Nvidia chips but they are also designing their own semiconductors for AI processes. Inference is the process that follows the training of AI models, as it refers to the actual application of AI in the real world, such as a chatbot responding to user queries. Moore ThreadsMoore Threads, founded in 2020, is developing GPUs designed to train large AI models.
Persons: Paul Triolo, Albright Stonebridge, Baidu Alibaba, Wei Sun, Moore, KUAE, ByteDance Organizations: Istock, Getty, Nvidia, CNBC, Huawei Huawei, Huawei, Wall, Alibaba, Baidu, Counterpoint Research, Biren, Technologies, China Morning, Cambricon Technologies, U.S, Sequoia, GGV Locations: China, U.S, Beijing, Washington, Shenzhen, Biren's
"It is likely to impact many businesses, especially those developing AI systems but also those deploying or merely using them in certain circumstances." For AI applications deemed to be "high-risk," for example, strict obligations will be introduced under the AI Act. watch nowExamples of high-risk AI systems include autonomous vehicles, medical devices, loan decisioning systems, educational scoring, and remote biometric identification systems. Generative AI is labelled in the EU AI Act as an example of "general-purpose" artificial intelligence. General-purpose AI models include, but aren't limited to, OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude.
Persons: Dado Ruvic, Tanguy Van Overstraeten, Charlie Thompson, Appian, Thompson, Meta, OpenAI's, Google's, Anthropic's Claude, Jamil Jiva, Linedata, GDPR, Jiva Organizations: Reuters, European Commission, EU, CNBC, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Web Services, Big Tech, EMEA, Data, Facebook, Companies, AI Office, Commission Locations: Brussels, EU, Europe
Nvidia is working on a version of its new flagship AI chips for the China market that would be compatible with current U.S. export controls, four sources familiar with the matter said. The AI chip giant in March unveiled its "Blackwell" chip series, which is due to be mass-produced later in the year. A version of a chip from Nvidia's Blackwell series for the Chinese market would boost the U.S. firm's efforts to fend off those challenges. Expectations are high that the U.S. will continue to keep up the pressure on semiconductor-related export controls. The U.S. wants the Netherlands and Japan to further restrict chipmaking equipment to China, sources have said.
Persons: Blackwell, Inspur, Nvidia's Blackwell, Biden Organizations: MWC Shanghai, Nvidia, Reuters, Huawei, Bloomberg News Locations: Shanghai, China, Washington, U.S, Netherlands, Japan
Big Tech's phony Trumpism
  + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Before Andreessen and Horowitz formed their venture-capital firm in 2009, Andreessen was an incisive observer of Silicon Valley. Big Andreesen (meaning the current bloated billionaire model) also contradicts Little Andreessen (the earlier, leaner blogger) on the issue of regulation. The reason, he now claims, is that government used to leave Silicon Valley alone. He and his fellow Silicon Valley investor-class billionaires have been sliding rightward for years. It's that I didn't see that this is where Silicon Valley was always headed.
Persons: Marc Andreessen, Donald Trump, That's, Andreessen, Bill Clinton, Hillary, Ben Horowitz, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison —, Trump, , I've, Horowitz, It's, America's, Biden, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, they're, Dave Karpf, Hillary Clinton, we've Organizations: Democratic, Little Tech, Tech, Government, America, Justice Department, Microsoft, Trump, Little, Bloomberg Technology Conference, Netscape Locations: Silicon Valley, Silicon
Global chip stocks fell sharply, with ASML , Nvidia and TSMC posting declines amid reports of tighter export restrictions from the U.S. and a ramp-up of geopolitical tensions fueled by comments from former U.S. President Donald Trump. ASML's Netherlands-listed shares were down 11%, while Tokyo Electron shares in Japan closed nearly 7.5% lower. The moves came after Bloomberg on Wednesday reported that the Biden administration is considering a wide-sweeping rule to clamp down on companies exporting their critical chipmaking equipment to China. Washington's foreign direct product rule, or FDPR, allows the U.S. to put controls on foreign-made products even if they use the smallest amount of American technology. CNBC has reached out to the U.S. State Department, the Bureau of Industry and Security, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for comment on the report.
Persons: Donald Trump, Biden Organizations: ASML, Nvidia, ASML's, Tokyo, AMD, Marvell, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Bloomberg, CNBC, U.S . State Department, of Industry, Security, U.S . Trade Locations: U.S, ASML's Netherlands, Japan, China
CNN —The world’s first minister dedicated to developing artificial intelligence (AI) strategy is already becoming embroiled in a global power struggle for tech supremacy. The UAE is one of the world’s largest producers of fossil fuels, and Abu Dhabi sees its AI push as crucial for diversifying away from oil. Christopher Pike/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesWashington has also limited the sale of sophisticated US chips to ensure China doesn’t use Middle Eastern nations as a back door to access the newest AI technology, according to Reuters. By opening up the technology, Abu Dhabi is positioning itself as an ally to developing nations that don’t have the resources to build their own AI tools. In March, a report commissioned by the US State Department warned that the most advanced AI systems could, in a worst-case scenario, “pose an extinction-level threat to the human species.”Olama has some specific concerns.
Persons: Biden, Omar Al Olama, , Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi, , ” Olama, Al Olama, ’ ”, Christopher Pike, Olama, Abu Dhabi’s, ” James Lewis, Abu Dhabi’s Mohamed bin, Gifty Sahany, Lewis, ” He’s Organizations: CNN, Microsoft, United Arab Emirates, UAE, PwC, Commerce Department, Huawei, Etihad, United, Bloomberg, Getty, Washington, Reuters, Nvidia, Apple, Technology Innovation Institute, Google, Center for Strategic, International Studies, Washington DC, University of Artificial Intelligence, Systems, US State Department Locations: Abu Dhabi, UAE, China, United States, Dubai, Gulf, United Arab Emirates, Beijing, Washington, University, Valley
For years, U.S. officials have accused China of stealing American technology to design and build fighter planes. But while China learned how to build advanced fighters, its pilots could not fly them so well. U.S. and allied intelligence officials warned on Wednesday that Beijing was intensifying a campaign to entice former fighter pilots from Western nations to train Chinese pilots. “To overcome their shortcomings, China’s People’s Liberation Army has been aggressively recruiting Western military talent to train their aviators, using private firms around the globe that conceal their P.L.A. ties and offer recruits exorbitant salaries,” said Michael C. Casey, the director of the U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center.
Persons: , , , Michael C, Casey Organizations: Liberation Army, U.S . National Counterintelligence and Security Center Locations: China, Beijing, United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
U.S. officials have said that AI systems could pose national security risks, for example by making it easier to engineer chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. The Biden administration in October required the makers of the largest AI systems to share details about them with the U.S. government. Microsoft executives said the agreement has safeguards to protect Microsoft's technology and prevent it from being used by Chinese entities to train AI systems. The Commerce Department already requires notifications and, in several regions, export licenses to send AI chips abroad. Microsoft executives said the company welcomes a debate on a new legal framework governing the transfer of AI technology and that the deal with G42 requires the UAE firm to comply with U.S. regulations as they evolve.
Persons: Brad Smith, Smith, Biden, Michael McCaul, we're Organizations: Microsoft, United Arab, Reuters, U.S ., U.S . Department of Commerce, U.S . House, Commerce Department Locations: Madrid, Spain, United Arab Emirates, U.S, UAE
Washington — The Biden administration added 37 Chinese entities to a trade restriction list on Thursday, including some for allegedly supporting the suspected spy balloon that flew over the United States last year, heightening tensions between Beijing and Washington. Media have said state-owned China Electronics Technology Group is a top military equipment supplier. China Electronics Technology Group could not immediately be reached for comment. The trade restriction list, known as the entity list, has been used aggressively by the United States to stem the flow of technology to China amid concerns Beijing could use it to bolster its military capabilities. Being added to the list makes it harder for US suppliers to ship to the targeted entities.
Persons: Washington —, Biden, Antony Blinken, , Army’s Organizations: The Commerce Department, China Electronics Technology Group, Media, China Electronics Technology, State, Commerce Department, PLA Locations: United States, Beijing, Washington, China, overreacting, Russia
The idea triggered a full-scale revolt on the Google campus. Engineers and other Google employees argued that the company should have nothing to do with Project Maven, even if it was designed to help the military discern between civilians and militants. The uproar forced the company to back out, but Project Maven didn’t die — it just moved to other contractors. Now, it has grown into an ambitious experiment being tested on the front lines in Ukraine, forming a key component of the U.S. military’s effort to funnel timely information to the soldiers fighting Russian invaders. So far the results are mixed: Generals and commanders have a new way to put a full picture of Russia’s movements and communications into one big, user-friendly picture, employing algorithms to predict where troops are moving and where attacks might happen.
Persons: Maven Organizations: Google, Engineers Locations: Ukraine
London CNN —Microsoft will invest $1.5 billion in Abu Dhabi’s G42, an artificial intelligence group that has faced questions over its ties to China. The companies will collaborate on AI and digital infrastructure, in a move that sees Microsoft’s AI empire expand into the Middle East for the first time. G42 and Microsoft say they have committed to comply with US and international trade rules as part of their partnership. Microsoft has forged high-profile partnerships with several AI companies, in an attempt to position itself as a leader in the technology. “It’s all about this new AI era,” Smith told CNN in February.
Persons: Peng Xiao, , Xiao, Brad Smith, , OpenAI, , ” Smith Organizations: London CNN, Microsoft, Abu, Pegasus, New York Times, CNN, Mistral Locations: Abu Dhabi’s, China, Chinese, Beijing, UAE, United States, Europe, Spain, Germany
Yellen to Visit China for Top-Level Economic Talks
  + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Alan Rappeport | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen will make her second trip to China this week for high-level talks aimed at further stabilizing the relationship between the world’s largest economies as political rancor in the United States intensifies ahead of the presidential election. During four days of meetings in Guangzhou and Beijing, Ms. Yellen plans to meet with representatives from American companies, Chinese students and professors and China’s top economic officials. The trip comes as the Biden administration tries to balance a tougher stance toward China, including restricting access to American technology and retaining tariffs on billions of Chinese exports, while keeping regular lines of communication open and avoiding an economic war. The Treasury Department announced the trip as President Biden and Xi Jinping, China’s leader, held a call on Tuesday on a variety of issues. A senior Treasury Department official who previewed Ms. Yellen’s trip said that it was taking place in the spirit of responsibly managing the economic relationship between the countries.
Persons: Janet L, Yellen, Biden, Xi, Mr, Yellen’s Organizations: Biden, Treasury Department Locations: China, United, Guangzhou, Beijing, United States
"No American company, especially those receiving taxpayer funding, should be fueling its innovation," he said, referencing Intel's expected grant from the Commerce Department to expand its U.S. chip production. Republican Senator Marco Rubio called on the Biden administration to revoke Intel's license to sell to Huawei "immediately" following the Reuters report. Intel, Huawei, the Commerce Department and the White House declined to comment. Intel's share of sales of Huawei laptops containing its chips soared during the period from 52.9% to 90.7%, according to the presentation. Meanwhile, Huawei continues to rely heavily on Intel chips for its laptops, its website shows.
Persons: Patrick Gelsinger, Marco Rubio, Biden, Joe Biden, Trump, Donald Trump Organizations: Intel Corp, Intel Innovation, Intel, Huawei, Commerce Department, Republican, Reuters, AMD, Devices, White, Embassy, NPD, GfK, IRI, NIQ, U.S Locations: Intel Innovation Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, U.S, China, Washington, United States, Beijing
Nvidia's data center revenue boomed across all regions but China due to trade restrictions. The chip giant is now shipping alternatives to the country that don't require a license. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . One place Nvidia didn't grow: China, where revenue declined "significantly following the US government export control regulations imposed in October," Nvidia's CFO Colette Kress said on the company's Q4 earnings call. That's heightened shareholder worries about Nvidia's ability to keep up sales in China's massive AI chip market.
Persons: , Colette Kress, execs, Jensen Huang, Huang Organizations: Nvidia, Service, Business Locations: China
Americans who've moved to Europe often share the most shocking things about their new environments. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Americans living in Europe sometimes report relatively well-known differences as culture shocks, including siesta culture in Spain, where an afternoon nap is customary, and differences in tipping expectations . But there's at least one slightly more unexpected culture shock that many American expats can't stop talking about — hang drying clothes instead of using electric dryers. Some Americans have also filmed themselves navigating a drying rack, which they said they weren't used to using in the US.
Persons: who've, , Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Kirstin Munro, Munro Organizations: Service, Housing Survey, Engineering, European Commission, European, University of Pennsylvania, Household Technology, American Technology, BI, New School for Social Research Locations: Europe, Spain, Italy, American, Germany, Latvian, New York
In public, the company has announced its staggering growth with a steady cadence of news releases. But in classified American intelligence channels, there have been more concerning reports about the company. and other American spy agencies have issued warnings about G42’s work with large Chinese companies that U.S. officials consider security threats, including Huawei, the telecommunications giant that is under U.S. sanctions. U.S. officials fear G42 could be a conduit by which advanced American technology is siphoned to Chinese companies or the government. The intelligence reports have also warned that G42’s dealings with Chinese firms could be a pipeline to get the genetic data of millions of Americans and others into the hands of the Chinese government, according to two officials familiar with the reports.
Persons: Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, Jake Sullivan Organizations: United Arab, White House, AstraZeneca, OpenAI, Huawei Locations: United Arab Emirates, China, Silicon, U.S
Taiwan's APEC envoy Morris Chang attends a press conference during the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 17, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria Acquire Licensing RightsSAN FRANCISCO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Taiwan's APEC envoy Morris Chang said on Friday that he had informal interactions with U.S. President Joe Biden and discussions with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a summit in San Francisco, but none with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The White House has not elaborated on those conditions, but Biden asked Xi to respect Taiwan's presidential election process next year, according to a U.S. official. Taiwan's envoy Chang said he supported those U.S. export controls on China. Reporting by Michael Martina in San Francisco and Ben Blanchard in Taipei; Editing by Chris Reese, Kim Coghill and Tom HogueOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Morris Chang, Carlos Barria, Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, Xi Jinping, Chang, Kamala Harris, Xi, Biden, Blinken, Fumio Kishida, Wang Wentao, Michael Martina, Ben Blanchard, Chris Reese, Kim Coghill, Tom Hogue Organizations: APEC, Economic Cooperation, REUTERS, FRANCISCO, U.S, Japanese, Biden, China's, Thomson Locations: Asia, San Francisco , California, U.S, San Francisco, Taiwan, Taipei, Beijing, Thailand, China, United States, Washington
Biden, meanwhile, finds himself strapped with international challenges from the war in Ukraine to the latest conflict in Gaza. Chinese leader Xi Jinping, left, and US President Joe Biden. Getty ImagesXi’s agendaDespite the challenges he faces at home, the insulated Chinese leader may see himself in a stronger position relative to Biden. Xi will ask Biden to clarify and define the scope of the US approach on tech restrictions, analysts say. Liu Ranyang/China News Service/VCG/Getty Images‘Positive signals’The lead-up to Xi’s American visit has been marked with signals that China is hoping to smooth prickly relations.
Persons: — Xi Jinping, Joe Biden —, Xi, Biden, he’d, , Yun Sun, Xi Jinping, Joe Biden, , Suisheng Zhao, Stimson, Sun, Harry Moyer, Liu Ranyang, Zhong Sheng, wisecracks, Nancy Pelosi’s, Beijing’s, Shi Yinhong, Shi Organizations: CNN, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, , China Program, Stimson, Getty, Biden, Center for, Cooperation, University of Denver, Communist Party, US, Taiwan’s Democracy Progressive Party, US Flying Tigers, Kunming Foreign Language School, China News Service, “ Flying Tigers, China’s Renmin University, Republicans Locations: China, Hong Kong, San Fransisco, Bali , Indonesia, Ukraine, Gaza, Washington, Beijing, Center for China, Taiwan, California, Kunming, China's Yunnan, United States, Russia, Iran
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — European officials widened a ban on Meta’s “behavioral advertising” practices to most of Europe on Wednesday, setting up a broader conflict between the continent’s privacy-conscious institutions and an American technology giant. The decision by the European Data Protection Board represents a sharp escalation of a tussle that began in Norway, where privacy officials imposed a daily fine of 1 million kroner — roughly $90,000 — on Meta for obtaining that data without adequate consent. The latest decision “unjustifiably ignores that careful and robust regulatory process,” the company said in a statement following the European board's action. Tobias Judin, head of the international section at the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, said Meta's proposed steps likely won't meet European legal standards. “They continue with their unlawful activities to this very day, simply because breaking the law is so profitable.”
Persons: Meta, , Tobias Judin, Meta's, wouldn't, ” Judin Organizations: FRANCISCO, , Facebook, European Data Protection, Meta, Norwegian Data Protection Authority Locations: Europe, American, Norway
President Joe Biden unveiled a new executive order on artificial intelligence — the U.S. government's first action of its kind — requiring new safety assessments, equity and civil rights guidance and research on AI's impact on the labor market. Working with international partners to implement AI standards around the world. to implement AI standards around the world. It also comes ahead of the an AI safety summit hosted by the U.K.. President Biden's executive order requires that large companies share safety test results with the U.S. government before the official release of AI systems.
Persons: Joe Biden, government's, it's, Staff Bruce Reed, Biden's, Biden Organizations: Calif, White House, Commerce Department, Department of Health, Human Services, House, Staff, U.K, U.S, National Institute of Standards, Commerce, Sunday Locations: San Francisco, U.S, AI.gov
AdvertisementAdvertisementJames Neave, head of data science at Adzuna, compares soft skills to people skills. Selker said that because soft skills can be observed, they can be measured, even if somewhat subjectively. Measuring soft skills can then become more like evaluating hard skills. AdvertisementAdvertisement"It really is a shift in thinking then to say, 'Can we observe these soft skills?" The pandemic meant that many Gen Zers, as they started their careers, didn't get the face-to-face interactions at work that might have allowed them to further develop their soft skills.
Persons: , we've, Carrie Fisher, Harry Met Sally, Norman Bacal, Bacal, James Neave, Neave, Greg Selker, Stanton Chase, Selker, Zers, didn't Organizations: Service, Management, LinkedIn, KPMG Locations: American, Adzuna
In a call with reporters on Monday, a senior administration official said that the United States had seen people try to work around the earlier rules, and that recent breakthroughs in generative A.I. had given regulators more insight into how the so-called large language models behind it were being developed and used. access to advanced semiconductors that could fuel breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and sophisticated computers that are critical to P.R.C. The Biden administration has been trying to counter China’s growing mastery of many cutting-edge technologies by pumping money into new chip factories in the United States. U.S. officials describe the strategy as protecting American technology with “a small yard and high fence.”
Persons: Gina M, Raimondo, , it’s, Biden, China’s, Xi Jinping Locations: United States, People’s Republic of China, California, China, U.S
CNBC Daily Open: High rates are still haunting IPOs
  + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Yeo Boon Ping | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
This report is from today's CNBC Daily Open, our new, international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Downbeat marketsU.S. markets dipped and U.S. Treasury yields rose as investors braced themselves for the outcome of the Federal Reserve's meeting. [PRO] A revival in IPO markets? But many companies are still holding off going public because of lower valuations — which is precisely what investors are looking for in today's market, CNBC Pro's Bob Pisani writes.
Persons: Europe's, Instacart, Huawei's, Justin Trudeau, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Bob Pisani Organizations: CNBC, Treasury, Huawei, Huawei —, Canadian Locations: U.S, China, British Columbia, Ottawa, Indian, India, Canadian, today's
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