Desk
Editorial Staff
The Technology Desk covers the technology industry as a business: chips, cloud, software and the rules around them. Articles under this byline draw on public records, official data and published reporting, and are checked against their sources before publication.
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China's commerce and science ministries proposed 40 AI, biomedicine and solar technologies for export controls on 16 October 2026, with comments open to 15 November.
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The EU Data Act lets customers switch cloud providers, and from 12 January 2027 providers may no longer charge for the switching process itself.
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Two former Groq engineers sued Groq's former board and CEO in Delaware, where the complaint was unsealed on Oct.
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Twenty FTC press releases dated September 9 to October 8, 2026 concern pricing, fees and refunds. None of them addresses AI labs or AI agents.
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The Committee on Foreign Investment scrutinizes deals involving critical technology.
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Greg Lui allegedly routed restricted GPUs through Malaysia and Singapore to evade export controls, exposing enforcement gaps in detecting transshipment schemes.
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AWS, Azure and Google Cloud charge $0.085–$0.09 per gigabyte to move data out. A UK regulator found these fees lock customers in and depress competition.
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Judges have twice rejected forced divestitures of Google assets, ordering behavioral changes instead. The DOJ is appealing for Chrome, arguing behavioral remedies won't fix the structural problem.
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Qualcomm's advanced 2-nanometer chips promise on-device AI, but a memory shortage forces budget phones to ship with constrained capabilities, widening market divisions.
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Surging power needs from data centers are straining electrical grids nationwide, forcing regulators and tech companies to navigate new capacity limits and raising costs for expansion.
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Why tech platforms face antitrust liability differently than traditional corporations, and how courts now evaluate market power in digital markets where network effects dominate.
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Cloud computing's complex pricing models and switching costs keep enterprise spending high even as rivals battle for market share.
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The DOJ and FTC prosecute AI companies under Sherman Act rules for coordinated pricing through shared algorithms and exclusive supply deals that lock out competitors.
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The EU's Digital Markets Act imposes sweeping compliance obligations on Apple, Google, Meta and six other tech giants. Violations carry fines up to 20% of global revenue.
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Power availability, cooling capacity, proximity to users and regulatory requirements increasingly determine where cloud infrastructure gets built—and what companies end up paying to use it.
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Cloud providers convert fixed infrastructure costs into variable pay-per-use expenses.
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A Trump executive order created a Justice Department task force to sue states over AI laws, and dozens of attorneys general are fighting the effort.
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Dario and Daniela Amodei left OpenAI to build trustworthy AI. Anthropic is now winning big business and heading for Nasdaq. Can its principles survive the scale?
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Commerce is drafting a rule to stop Chinese firms from renting U.S. AI chips through data centers in Thailand and Singapore, and lawyers say it may lack the legal authority to enforce it.
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A court blocked Trump's $100,000 H-1B fee, but DHS has proposed a $103,265 replacement fee through formal rulemaking as the visa lottery already favors higher wages.
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Crystal Yang started with an audio version of Wordle for a blind friend. Her nonprofit, Audemy, now makes learning games used in schools for the blind across the country.
