#us-national-security

#us-national-security

Driving the news: Trump said on Truth Social that he'll allow Nvidia to sell H200 chips - the generation of chips before its current, more-advanced Blackwell lineup - to China, with the U.S. government pocketing a quarter of the revenue. He said he would apply "the same approach to AMD, Intel, and other GREAT American Companies." State of play: It's not dissimilar to a deal from earlier this year in which Nvidia and AMD agreed to give the U.S. 15% of the sales of its less-advanced H20 chip to China in exchange for export licenses.

In his final days at the White House, Dick Cheney proposed an epitaph. His, he suggested, had been "a consequential vice presidency." It was an understatement, and characteristically oblique. Consequential might describe Lincoln or Lenin, Gandhi or Genghis Khan. Cheney was speaking of influence, and for once he acknowledged his own. He knew he had changed the nation's course, and he professed to have no regrets. After all this time, I'm still not sure whether to believe that.

Hours later, the president took questions from reporters at the White House, where one journalist asked if the administration has the legal authority to carry out the strikes. Yes, we do, Trump said. We have legal authority. We're allowed to do that, and if we do by land, we may go back to Congress. But we have this is a national security problem.

With the U.S. government confirming that it has the framework for a TikTok sell-off deal in place, ahead of this week's deadline for such a an arrangement to be brought into effect, more information is now coming to light as to how, exactly, TikTok will continue to operate in the region, in alignment with the Which may not quite meet the specifics of the TikTok sell-off act, which includes qualifiers relating to the operating systems of such platforms,

In an affidavit, police indicated that Soliman had planned for over a year to execute a targeted attack on a pro-Israel peace demonstration.

Waltz created the 'Houthi PC Small Group' chat and added top Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, revealing serious breaches of government operational security protocols.