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Trump Executive Order Rescinds Goal for Zero-Emission Vehicles

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

In his first 36 hours in office, President Trump went on an Executive Order signing spree, with several fundamentally reshaping the EV landscape. Amongst these was revoking Biden’s August 2021 Executive Order titled “Strengthening American Leadership in Clean Cars and Trucks,” which set unofficial manda

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01/27/2025

White House Issues Strict Rules on AI Systems and Chip Exports

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

The Biden Administration has just issued draconian restrictions on the export of advanced AI systems (and the chips to enable them) – restrictions that, by the time you read this, could be well on their way to being overturned. The Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion aims to “enhance U.S. national security a

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01/20/2025

AI Predicts Behavior of 1,000+ Humans After 2-Hour Interviews

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

This is…terrifying. We already have generative AI systems that can closely imitate the look and sound of real people. We have AI rewriting (or in many cases, writing) term papers, composing creative arts, and they’ve long-since passed the Turing Test. But now we have “novel agent architecture” th

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01/13/2025

China to Place Export Restrictions on Battery Components and Critical Minerals

Jason Lomberg, North American Editor, PSD

President Trump won’t be the only one placing heavy restrictions on items originating in China – China, itself, is set to join the party, but instead of tariffs, the PRC will institute outright bans and constraints on battery components and minerals like lithium and gallium. As Reuters points out, these m

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Date:

01/06/2025