Abigail Avery

Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war

Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma visited Washington this week to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and members of Congress to oppose the MATCH Act, a bill that would bar Chinese chipmakers from accessing Western semiconductor equipment, and one that would hit ASML especially hard. ASML, based in the Netherlands, is Europe’s most valuable company…

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Prime Day, day 2: We personally vetted 100+ live Amazon deals from Apple, Lego, Sony, and more

Table of Contents Table of Contents Table of ContentsBest Prime Day Apple dealBest Prime Day headphones dealBest Prime Day Amazon device dealsBest Prime Day Kindle dealsBest Prime Day laptop dealBest Prime Day DJI dealBest Prime Day home and kitchen dealBest Prime Day speaker dealBest Prime Day power station dealsBest Prime Day TV dealsBest Prime Day…

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AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient

Whether AI is already replacing jobs is the subject of fierce debate. Tech layoffs hit their highest single month total in years in May, and AI was the most-cited reason, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Software engineering, in theory, is the professional field most vulnerable to automation, given the rapid adoption of AI-powered coding…

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I Met With China’s Top AI Experts. They’re Freaking Out, Too

Just over a week ago, I attended a major artificial intelligence conference in Zhongguancun, Beijing’s bustling high-tech district. It was packed with fascinating sessions touching on everything from recursive self-improvement—the idea that models can tweak their own code and advance indefinitely—to humanoid robots. And it featured a few legends of computing, including Whitfield Diffie, co-inventor…

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