US President Donald Trump has announced a deal allowing American chip designers AMD and Nvidia to export advanced chips to China in exchange for a 15% cut of the sales revenue, which analysts warn could lead to conflicts of interest and create a "pay-to-play" foreign trade policy. The US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggests this model could be applied to other industries, raising concerns about American investors and exporters' ability to do business in China's large economy.
US President Donald Trump's plan to charge companies 15% of their revenues from Chinese AI chip sales may provide a path for US companies to enter the Chinese market despite severe export controls and tariffs. The deal, struck with Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., has raised concerns among experts that the US government will find new ways to charge companies for business activities with other countries. Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, described the plan as "truly bizarre" and warned of its potential expansion.
TestingXperts' specialist AI and Digital Engineering division, TxMinds, has launched its cutting-edge platforms and solutions at Ai4 2025 in Las Vegas. The company's CEO, Manish Gupta, described TxMinds as a "high-impact innovation engine" that combines advanced AI capabilities with engineering expertise to help enterprises transform faster and smarter. TxMinds offers AI advisory services, including readiness assessment and roadmap design, and has partnered with leading Agentic AI platforms to deliver industry-ready capabilities. The company showcased live demonstrations of its EmotIQ sentiment analysis agent, A11Y accessibility agent, and multi-agent orchestration solutions that enable real-time decision-making across functions.
US authorities have reportedly secretly placed trackers in some high-risk AI chip shipments to catch illegal diversions to China as part of the escalating battle over semiconductor exports. The move is aimed at detecting and preventing the diversion of sensitive technology to Chinese companies, with Dell and Nvidia denying any involvement in the practice. According to a Reuters report, the US has embedded location tracking devices in selected shipments of advanced chips and AI servers, revealing a covert tactic in the ongoing struggle to control the flow of semiconductor exports.
Zifo has launched an AI-Powered Protein Models platform on the Snowflake Data Cloud, enabling biopharma companies and research institutions to design and optimize therapeutic antibodies faster, potentially shortening drug discovery timelines, with its cloud-native GenAI application available on the Snowflake Marketplace.
More than 1,000 customers worldwide, including BMC Software, Box, Caterpillar, General Motors, The New York Times, Schneider Electric and Zoom, use Zuora's technology to transform their financial operations. Zuora is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices globally. AI-native Accounts Receivable Software Growfin empowers brands like Air Comm, Greenhouse, Elise AI, MedUS, Mindtickle, among others, to streamline Order-to-Cash processes and improve cash flow through intelligent automation and collaborative tools.
AI agents have the potential to accelerate humanity's shift from scarcity to abundance by operating autonomously, continuously learning, and collaborating with humans to identify untapped resources and streamline production. They can democratize expertise, enabling individuals in remote villages to access strategic insights previously available only to CEOs, and empower communities to participate fully in economic and scientific activity. By linking human cognitive capacity with technological capability, AI agents can translate ideas into implementable solutions at unprecedented speed, assisting in sustainable resource mapping, equitable distribution systems, and governance transparency.
Researchers from the UK and Italy tested popular AI-powered browsers, including ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, and Merlin AI on Google Chrome, for data collection and profiling of users. They found that most assistants, except Perplexity AI, may be collecting user data to personalize services, potentially violating data privacy rules.
Anthropic's new approach to its AI chatbot Claude aims to address issues with memory retention by allowing users to correct mistakes before widespread adoption. The company plans to implement a rollout strategy that enables this correction, and will also compare its method to other long-term context-building approaches like ChatGPT and Gemini, considering user preferences for on-demand memory versus building long-term context.