Tag: Donald Trump

US calls EU fines on Apple and Meta ‘economic extortion’

Posted on   |  by Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh
The White House said on Wednesday that fines on Apple and Meta Platforms by the European Union were a “novel form of economic extortion” that the United States will not...

Aussie scientists plot US ‘brain gain’ as a Trump dividend

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian scientists have hatched a plan to recruit and repatriate US-based counterparts fleeing President Trump’s multi-billion-dollar research purge with competitive relocation packages. The Australian Academy of Science on Thursday...

Chris Krebs resigns from SentinelOne following Trump pressure

Posted on   |  by Raphael Satter
Christopher Krebs, whom President Donald Trump fired as head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in 2020, has announced he is leaving cybersecurity company SentinelOne following pressure...

South Korea unveils US$23b support package for semiconductors

Posted on   |  by Hyunsu Yim and Jihoon Lee
The South Korea government has increased its support package for the country’s semiconductor industry to ₩33 trillion (US$23.25 billion), up about 25 per cent from a ₩26 trillion package...

Trump says chips from China to face national security, new tariffs

Posted on   |  by Doina Chiacu, Nathan Layne and Jeff Mason
US President Donald Trump says his administration’s latest message that the exclusion of smartphones and computers from his reciprocal tariffs on China will be short-lived, and has pledged a...

Cybersecurity industry silent as Trump turns on SentinelOne

Posted on   |  by Raphael Satter
The cybersecurity industry has gone mostly quiet after President Donald Trump took action against one of its prominent members. President Trump on Wednesday ordered the cancellation of security clearances...

White House orders expansion in US government use of AI

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Donald Trump’s Executive Office has ordered federal agencies to name a chief AI officer, develop strategies for expanding their use of artificial intelligence, and to make the purchase of...