Government

Matt Clifford has stepped down as chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns. His move highlights the growing ties between AI companies and government advisors.

Policy • Techmeme

The United States government formally accused six Chinese artificial intelligence companies of systematically reverse-engineering and replicating US-developed frontier models. Washington is urging domestic firms to identify and secretly route Chinese users to less-capable versions, escalating technical decoupling and export control measures.

Geopolitics & Security • Ars Technica AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outlined projections for 70 percent revenue growth next year, attributing the expansion to sustained enterprise and government adoption of AI infrastructure. He emphasized that current hardware deployments are driven by distinct workload requirements rather than circular procurement cycles. The forecast reinforces confidence in long-term capital expenditure trends across the semiconductor supply chain.

AI Hardware & Markets • TechCrunch AI

Cohere • Unknown

Canadian AI firm Cohere is in advanced talks to raise between $2B and $3B, including financing from the Canadian government and existing backers, at a $20B valuation.