FDD's Center on Cyber & Technology Innovation

📰 via @TheRecord_Media: Three senior North Korean officials involved in IT schemes have been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department. therecord.media/us-sanctions-n…

📰 via @fedscoop: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to the General Services Administration on Friday demanding more information about how the agency is using Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI. fedscoop.com/house-oversigh…

📰 via @Reuters: China said on Saturday it wanted to create an organisation to foster global cooperation on artificial intelligence, positioning itself as an alternative to the U.S. as the two vie for influence over the transformative technology. reuters.com/world/china/ch…

📰 via @nytimes: Meta on Friday said that it would end political advertisements on its platform in European Union countries, the latest turn in the battle over regulation of its activities. nytimes.com/2025/07/25/bus…

📰 via @Reuters: Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence chips worth at least $1 billion were smuggled to China in the three months after Washington tightened chip export controls, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. reuters.com/world/china/nv…

📰 via @Reuters: U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that TikTok will have to stop operating in the United States if China does not approve a deal for the sale of the Chinese-owned short video app that is used by some 170 million Americans. reuters.com/business/media…

📰 via @Reuters: Demand in China has begun surging for a business that, in theory, shouldn’t exist: the repair of advanced Nvidia artificial intelligence chipsets that the U.S. has banned the export of to its trade and tech rival reuters.com/world/china/ch…

📰 via @Reuters: Tech firms huge and small will converge in Shanghai this weekend to showcase their artificial intelligence innovations and support China’s booming AI sector as it faces U.S. sanctions. reuters.com/business/autos…

📰 via @TheRecord_Media: A federal jury slapped five men from Nevada with varying sentences for their roles in running Jetflicks, one of the largest illegal TV streaming services to be taken down by law enforcement. therecord.media/five-sentenced…

📰 via @Reuters: Britain told Apple and Google to be fairer in how they distribute apps on their mobile platforms, setting out possible interventions as it plans to designate the U.S. tech companies with strategic market status over their duopoly. reuters.com/legal/litigati…

📰 via @Reuters: A cyber-espionage campaign centered on vulnerable versions of Microsoft’s server software now involves the deployment of ransomware, Microsoft said in a late Wednesday blog post. reuters.com/sustainability…

📰 via @Reuters: Taiwan plans to launch its “Ten Major AI Infrastructure Projects” initiative, aimed at generating more than T$15 trillion ($510 billion) in economic value by 2040 as it strives to become a global leader in artificial intelligence. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

📰 via @nytimes: Microsoft said that Chinese state-sponsored actors were exploiting vulnerabilities in one of its popular collaboration software products, SharePoint, which is used by U.S. government agencies and many companies worldwide. nytimes.com/2025/07/23/wor…

📰 via @WSJ: The Trump administration said it would slash red tape and take steps to boost exports for U.S. technology companies in a bid to accelerate the country’s use of artificial intelligence. wsj.com/tech/ai/trump-…

📰 via @TheRecord_Media: The Interlock ransomware is being used to target critical infrastructure and businesses across North America and Europe, the FBI and other federal agencies warned Tuesday. therecord.media/fbi-vigilance-…

📰 via @business: More than a dozen Iranians’ mobile phones were targeted with spyware in the months prior to the country’s war with Israel, according to new research. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

📰 via @AP: An artificial intelligence agenda that started coalescing on the podcasts of Silicon Valley billionaires is now being forged into U.S. policy as President Donald Trump leans on the ideas of the tech figures who backed his election campaign. apnews.com/article/trump-…

📰 via @Reuters: Britain plans to ban public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure, including the state-run health service, local councils and schools, from paying ransom demands to cyber criminals, it said on Tuesday. reuters.com/world/uk/uk-pl…

📰 via @TheRecord_Media: Tech manufacturer Dell said a hacker breached a product demonstration platform in a recent incident, but told Recorded Future News that no sensitive information was involved. therecord.media/hackers-hit-de…

📰 via @Reuters: U.S. tech giants Meta (META.O), X and LinkedIn have lodged an appeal against an unprecedented VAT claim by Italy that could influence tax policy across the 27-nation European Union, four sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. reuters.com/world/europe/m…