Taiwan authorities are considering much stricter export controls on AI chip sales to China to further align with US measures, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort to address semiconductor smuggling that risks drawing a rebuke from Beijing. The idea is to give authorities more legal tools to address diversion of advanced hardware, like AI servers with Nvidia Corp. chips, from Tai...
Taiwan authorities are considering much stricter export controls on AI chip sales to China to further align with US measures, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort to address semiconductor smuggling that risks drawing a rebuke from Beijing. The idea is to give authorities more legal tools to address diversion of advanced hardware, like AI servers with Nvidia Corp. chips, from Taiwan to China. Such sales are already banned under US regulations unless companies get Washington’s permission, per curbs the US first imposed in 2022 to prevent Beijing from using advanced Nvidia processors to gain a military edge. Taiwan, however, doesn’t consider unauthorized AI chip exports to China to be a crime. While Taiwan authorities do warn the potential sellers that they may be breaking US rules should they proceed, the only legal recourse through the island’s courts is to charge suspected smugglers with violations of other, existing local laws. This can be a harder bar to meet, narrowing the scope of cases Taiwan can currently pursue. Taiwan authorities made their first known detentions of alleged chip smugglers last month, on charges of falsifying documents. Read More: Taiwan Seeks to Detain Three in Nvidia Smuggling Crackdown But now, as part of ongoing trade talks with the US, Taipei officials are considering imposing much stronger AI chip controls that would restrict sales to all customers in China, not just specific companies on an export blacklist that includes the likes of Huawei Technologies Co. , said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. That would enable Taiwan to prosecute AI chip smuggling to China as a criminal violation for the first time. If implemented, the controls would be among the most far-reaching measures so far from President Lai Ching-te ’s administration to safeguard Taiwan’s technological and national security interests, as Taipei tests its own comfort levels with more assertive policies — and manages pressu...
Live Championship updates from 11am UK time Email Tanya | MCC apologises for Lord’s pitch The government has announced £3m of funding, to be matched by the ECB, to build five all-weather cricket domes in areas currently lacking those facilities: Birmingham, Bolton, Derby, Newcastle and Nottingham. The domes will be cricket-led, all five sites but will support a range of sports and activities to ke...
Live Championship updates from 11am UK time Email Tanya | MCC apologises for Lord’s pitch The government has announced £3m of funding, to be matched by the ECB, to build five all-weather cricket domes in areas currently lacking those facilities: Birmingham, Bolton, Derby, Newcastle and Nottingham. The domes will be cricket-led, all five sites but will support a range of sports and activities to keep people active. Continue reading...
50/50 Women on Boards™, the leading global nonprofit advancing the business case for diverse boards, today announced featured speakers for the 2026 Breakfast of Corporate Champions, including leaders from Dow, S&P Global, Costco Wholesale, AMD, Nasdaq, Mastercard, Wells Fargo, Edelman, and SoFi.
50/50 Women on Boards™, the leading global nonprofit advancing the business case for diverse boards, today announced featured speakers for the 2026 Breakfast of Corporate Champions, including leaders from Dow, S&P Global, Costco Wholesale, AMD, Nasdaq, Mastercard, Wells Fargo, Edelman, and SoFi.
Britain ’s merger watchdog has opened a probe into Paramount Skydance Corp. ’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. The Competition and Markets Authority set an initial deadline of August 7 to rule on the deal to unite two Hollywood studios behind films from Casablanca and Harry Potter to Mission: Impossible; two major news networks in CNN and CBS; the streaming powerhouse HBO and ...
Britain ’s merger watchdog has opened a probe into Paramount Skydance Corp. ’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. The Competition and Markets Authority set an initial deadline of August 7 to rule on the deal to unite two Hollywood studios behind films from Casablanca and Harry Potter to Mission: Impossible; two major news networks in CNN and CBS; the streaming powerhouse HBO and dozens of cable networks. While the move was expected, the London-based agency has come under pressure from public-interest groups, unions and film-industry groups to take a tough stance on the takeover. “The film and TV industries contribute billions to our economy, so it’s important we assess whether deals between studios may harm competition,” the CMA said. The UK’s scrutiny is one of the last hurdles Paramount Chief Executive Officer David Ellison must overcome after outmaneuvering rival suitor Netflix Inc. with multiple bids over more than five months, visits to Washington, meetings with shareholders and President Donald Trump and the personal backing of his billionaire father Larry Ellison . The deal, if approved by regulators, would give the Ellison family control of one of the most powerful media empires in the world. An initial investigation from the UK’s CMA gives the agency 40 days to decide whether a merger raises any competition concerns. After that, companies can offer remedies to allay those fears, if that’s not enough then an in-depth probe will begin lasting 24 weeks. The European Union ’s antitrust authority has already set a July 7 deadline to rule on the tie-up, and Paramount is open to selling some children’s TV assets, if necessary, to clinch approval in the 27-nation bloc, people familiar with the deal said last week. Meanwhile, Paramount has submitted suggested terms to resolve an antitrust investigation by California and other states into the transaction, Bloomberg has reported. A Paramount spokesperson said the CMA move was expected and that the co...
Wei Li, chief global investment strategist at BlackRock, says there is a “healthy debate to be had” about the durability of Artificial Intelligence earnings and sees the AI trade as a “space to be selective and active.” (Source: Bloomberg)
Wei Li, chief global investment strategist at BlackRock, says there is a “healthy debate to be had” about the durability of Artificial Intelligence earnings and sees the AI trade as a “space to be selective and active.” (Source: Bloomberg)