The Department of Commerce announced this week it will distribute $874 million in federal funding to seven semiconductor companies and receive a minority ownership stake in each in return, reviving a practice that has drawn pushback from within the Republican Party.
The Federal Communications Commission is taking strides to ban the import of foreign-made robots and humanoids, as well as power inverters, that it believes pose national security concerns.
A top White House official has accused a Chinese startup of covertly stealing technology from American artificial intelligence company Anthropic and accessing restricted Nvidia chips to power its newest model, with the Trump administration now warning sanctions could follow.
The Trump administration dedicated $5 billion to the expansion of the Genesis Mission, a national effort developing artificial intelligence for scientific discovery.
