Viola Zhou

2 weeks ago | restofworld.org | Viola Zhou

Stephen Witt’s new book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip, is out this week, just as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have prompted fears of a global trade war and raised questions around the future of the world’s leading companies, including Nvidia. Nvidia’s graphics processing units, or GPUs, are the most powerful tools used to train artificial-intelligence models.

3 weeks ago | restofworld.org | Viola Zhou

President Donald Trump’s administration last week added 80 companies — mostly Chinese — to a list of firms barred for national security reasons from acquiring U.S. technology. The move expands a crackdown on Chinese companies that provide cloud computing services and servers powered by American chips.  U.S. officials said the restrictions aim to prevent China from developing high-performance computing capabilities, such as quantum technologies, for military use.

1 month ago | restofworld.org | Viola Zhou

In the spring of 2024, Chuck Thelen came to an unpleasant conclusion: He would have to eat part of a battery. It was, he figured, maybe the only way to solve his problem.  Thelen, 59 at the time, has broad shoulders, graying short hair, and an assertive way of speaking that seems to come naturally to American executives. He was a vice president at the U.S. subsidiary of Gotion, a Chinese battery company that was trying to outcompete its peers by betting on overseas markets.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Viola Zhou

NowNew Delhi Reuters — The Dalai Lama’s successor will be born outside China, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says in a new book, raising the stakes in a dispute with Beijing over control of the Himalayan region he fled more than six decades ago. Tibetans worldwide want the institution of the …

1 month ago | scroll.in | Viola Zhou |Khadija Alam

This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West. After US President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in January, some digital maps quickly made the change, at least for American users. “People using Maps in the U.S. will see ‘Gulf of America,’ and people in Mexico will see ‘Gulf of Mexico.’ Everyone else will see both names,” Google said in a blog post.