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Japan’s ruling party named Daishiro Yamagiwa as the new chairman of its group that promotes semiconductors, as it sets up a new mechanism to boost funding for the key industry.

It’s become increasingly difficult to find new, untapped sources of high-quality, human-made training data that can be used to build more advanced AI systems.

Bloomberg The Biden administration is expected to support the first legally binding United Nations agreement on cybersecurity, despite concerns it could be used by authoritarian states to obtain data from political opponents or track dissidents overseas. The agreement could become a global legal framework for cooperation on preventing and investigating cybercriminals. From “U.S. to Support […]

Tokyo looks to keep up with global wave of spending on tech.

The Biden administration plans to support a controversial cybercrime treaty at the United Nations this week despite concerns that it could be misused by authoritarian regimes, according to senior government officials.

Bloomberg Canada has ordered ByteDance Ltd. to close its Canadian TikTok subsidiary, following a national security review and advice from Canada’s security and intelligence agencies. This comes after a bipartisan bill was passed in the U.S. in April forcing ByteDance to divest its TikTok ownership stake or face a U.S. ban. Canada’s order will not […]

The Biden administration finalized restrictions on investments by US individuals and companies into advanced technology in China, including semiconductors, quantum computing and artificial intelligence.

Current policy caps deployment of cars lacking driver controls.

Officials are reviewing U.S. AI chip policy, with a focus on the Middle East.

Researchers express concern about lack of visibility ahead of U.S. election.