Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says Donald Trump is a president-elect who for all of his aggressive talk is afraid to let America compete with the rest of the world, responding instead with tariffs and curtailing immigration.

Chinese hackers accessed over 400 computers and over 3,000 unclassified files when they infiltrated the U.S. Treasury.

Tuesday’s award means that 18 tech hubs have now received a total of $720 million in federal funding, though there are 31 tech hubs in all, which were first unveiled back in October 2023. The 31 hubs have received more than $6 billion in public and private investments, according to the Commerce Department.

The United States is going to ban Russian and Chinese software in vehicles, according to the Department of Commerce, due to national security concerns.

The so-called AI diffusion rule from Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security faced swift pushback from industry.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has begun producing advanced four-nanometer chips for U.S. customers in Arizona, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Reuters, a milestone in the Biden administration's semiconductor efforts.

The United States unveiled new export rules Monday on chips used for artificial intelligence, furthering efforts to make it tough for China and other rivals to access advanced technology in Joe Biden's final days as president.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has announced the production of advanced 4nm chips for U.S. customers at TSMC's new Arizona fab. The company was granted US$6.6 billion dollars through the Biden administration's CHIPS Act to produce advanced microchip technology in the United States.

T SMC has started producing chips at its Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, using its 4nm-class process technology, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Reuters. This marks the first

Beijing on Wednesday said it "firmly opposes" a United States move to effectively bar Chinese technology from smart cars in the American market, saying alleged risks to national security were "without any factual basis".

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