US chip giant Qualcomm has agreed to pay China's Huawei Technologies to license patents for the first time as part of a multi-year agreement covering 5G, artificial intelligence, computing, and networking technologies. The deal marks a reversal from the previous one-way licensing relationship where Huawei paid Qualcomm, and will require US regulatory approval.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has publicly open-sourced software development tools created in partnership with Huawei Technologies for programming the company's Ascend AI chips. The release marks a significant step in China's effort to build alternatives to Nvidia's dominant hardware and CUDA software ecosystem.
Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies is standing trial in Brooklyn federal court on criminal charges including racketeering and defrauding banks over its business dealings with Iran. The case, originally brought during the first Trump administration, comes to trial after nearly a decade of legal proceedings, just weeks before a scheduled meeting between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
China's Huawei Technologies has submitted a proposal to the Egyptian government to build AI data centers for military, surveillance, and public sector applications. The move has drawn alarm in Washington, where officials are working to assemble a counter-offer.
