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It says the move follows findings from an interagency body that such routers pose unacceptable national security risks.

That includes a severe cybersecurity risk it says could be leveraged to disrupt critical infrastructure or harm Americans.

The FCC says the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security can grant conditional approval for routers to be imported if they're determined not to pose a security risk.

John Rewich, NPR News.

The U.S.

Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York says Supermicro co-founder Willie Liao and a company contractor were arrested.

A third person is still at large.

The indictment says they conspired to violate U.S.

export controls.

The government bans the sale to China of certain cutting-edge microchips used in artificial intelligence.

The Department of Justice says the three people and co-conspirators used brokers and a company in Southeast Asia to ship banned U.S.

chips from Taiwan to China.

The Southeast Asian company bought $2.5 billion worth of servers containing the chips between 2024 and 2025.

The company says in a statement it was not named as a defendant and the conduct of the individuals alleged in the indictment violates company policies and compliance rules.

John Rewich, NPR News.

The investments include $30 billion from the chipmaker NVIDIA, another $30 billion from the Japanese investment company SoftBank, and $50 billion from Amazon.

OpenAI says in a statement the partnerships expand its global reach, deepen its infrastructure, and strengthen its balance sheet.

Concerns about disruption from AI and the profitability of AI companies have rattled stock markets in recent weeks.

Tech companies have hauled in hundreds of billions of dollars to develop AI, but some critics say the return on investment is unclear.

OpenAI says bigger is better, and the leader in AI will have scale that requires money and customers.