Trump charges ‘key money’ on TikTok takeover
Orders sale then demands billions for letting it happen
The Trump administration forced TikTok to change hands in the US and wants a fat fee from the investors who are stepping in to buy it.
Trump slaps a price tag on tech visas
Tech firms shafted as H-1B costs hit $100,000
US King Donald Trump has decided that if foreigners want to work in the US, they had better be rich. And if tech companies want skilled labour, they can pay through the nose for them.
Trump threatens tariffs after Google slapped with €2.95 billion fine
Brussels tells search giant to flog off part of ad business
US president Donald Trump is rattling sabres again after Brussels fined Google €2.95 billion (£2.52 billion) for its advertising antics.
Big Tech bosses bow before Trump’s AI circus
Kissing the ring while Musk is left out in the cold
The biggest names in US tech have lined up at the White House to show how much they adore Donald and Melania Trump, apparently believing fawning public displays will save their companies from regulators.
AMD freezes China GPU wafers despite fresh licences
MI308 stays on ice
AMD, chief financial officer, Jean Hu, slammed the breaks on China GPU production on 3 September 2025, even after getting licences from the Trump administration.
Applied Materials boss says US chip incentives barely register
Shrugs at Washington’s pricey patriotism push
Despite a flood of government cash designed to drag chipmaking back to the US, one of the industry's key suppliers seems distinctly unimpressed.
Trump’s stake deal was all about locking Intel into foundry
Real countries have fabs
Intel has been strong-armed into holding on to its bleeding foundry business after Donald Trump’s administration tied subsidies to an equity grab.
Nvidia’s profits sparkle but China chip freeze spooks traders
AI darling’s data centre growth slows as H20 blacklisting bites
Nvidia has blown past earnings expectations again, but that wasn’t enough to satisfy the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street.
Intel warns about Trump’s partial nationalisation
US government stake could be a poisoned chalice
Troubled Chipzilla has admitted that the US government’s shiny new 9.9 per cent stake in the firm might be more of a liability than a lifeline.
Glorious people’s government secures ten per cent of Intel
10 per cent of capitalist chipmaker Intel brought into public ownership
In a heroic triumph of state planning over market chaos, the United States people’s government has secured a 10 per cent ownership stake in the formerly unaccountable capitalist chip monopoly, Intel, transforming it into a partially nationalised asset under the watchful guidance of President Donald Trump and Secretary of Commerce Comrade Howard Lutnick.