The Trump administration announced a 25% tariff on certain advanced AI semiconductors produced outside the U.S. that pass through the U.S. before being exported, including Nvidia’s H200 chips destined for China. The move formalizes a key element of the Commerce Department’s decision to allow H200 shipments to vetted Chinese customers and extends to certain chips from other companies as well.
Sen. Todd Young and Sen. Maria Cantwell are introducing bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the National Quantum Initiative for five years. The plan would restart programs that lapsed in 2023, fund federal research activity, and aim to strengthen supply chains and workforce development as the U.S. competes with China in advanced computing.
U.S. standards and security agencies are pressing ahead with efforts to strengthen hardware and operational safeguards as AI expands into critical systems. NIST is holding a hardware security workshop on January 28, 2026, while recent federal guidance emphasizes governance, risk awareness, and failsafe practices for deploying artificial intelligence in operational technology environments.
Nvidia has unveiled a suite of open-source AI models for weather forecasting under its Earth-2 effort, aiming to deliver forecasts far faster than traditional physics-based simulations. The announcement, reported by Reuters and summarized by Tech Startups, underscores AI’s expanding role in scientific computing and disaster preparedness.
Nvidia unveiled an open-source set of AI models designed to accelerate weather prediction, positioning AI as a complement—or alternative—to slower physics-based simulations. The move targets governments, researchers, and disaster-response planners.
Micron says it has started construction on a major new wafer fabrication facility in Singapore, part of an approximately $24 billion, 10-year investment meant to support NAND demand tied to AI and data-centric growth. Wafer output is targeted for the second half of 2028, with thousands of jobs tied to the broader expansion plan.
Nvidia unveiled an open-source set of AI models aimed at speeding up weather prediction workloads, betting that domain-specific AI will move from research demos to infrastructure used by public agencies and commercial risk managers.
Micron says it has begun building a new advanced wafer fabrication facility in Singapore, committing about $24 billion over 10 years as it targets AI-driven demand for NAND and broader memory and storage needs.
Nvidia is pitching AI models for weather prediction as a way to deliver faster forecasts and scale simulations that traditional physics-based methods struggle to compute cheaply. The move reflects a broader industry shift toward domain-specific AI systems designed for infrastructure, climate risk, and disaster response.
European regulators have opened an investigation into X connected to concerns about AI-generated sexual deepfakes linked to the platform’s Grok system. The move underscores increasing scrutiny of generative-AI features as regulators demand faster detection, stronger reporting, and clearer enforcement.
Microsoft announced a new AI accelerator, Maia 200, aimed at powering large-scale model training and inference and competing with similar chips from Amazon and Google. The company says the hardware improves performance-per-dollar and will be deployed in Azure as part of a broader push to control AI infrastructure.
Under Armour said it is investigating a data breach that appears to have exposed tens of millions of customers’ email addresses and other account profile details. The company said there is no evidence passwords or payment data were affected, but cybersecurity researchers flagged the scale of the dataset.
