India plans $25B deep tech investment push

Five outlets report Trump ruled out cooperating with China on AI safety before the White House tech CEO lunch, framing a sharper US-China AI divide alongside India's $25B deep-tech push.

14 sources · first seen 23 Sep 2026

• thenextweb.com Trump rules out working with China on AI safety before tech CEO lunch 4h ↗
• thenextweb.com ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says 11h ↗
• techmeme.com India plans to invest up to $25B in its nascent deep tech industry, as it looks to catch up with the US and China, after investing $11.6B over the past decade (Priyanka Salve/CNBC) 14h ↗
• thenextweb.com China extends AI travel curbs to executives’ families, Bloomberg reports 29h ↗
• thenextweb.com More elite AI researchers now work in China than in the US, study finds 33h ↗
• techmeme.com Sources: China expands its foreign travel restrictions to include the direct relatives, such as spouses and children, of certain key AI and chip executives (Bloomberg) 36h ↗
• thenextweb.com China reportedly may let Alibaba and ByteDance buy new Nvidia chips 2d ↗
• techmeme.com Sources: China's government asked Alibaba, ByteDance, and others to report on their plans to buy Nvidia RTX Pro 5500, saying it intends to approve the purchases (Qianer Liu/The Information) 2d ↗
• theinformation.com China Weighs Allowing Purchases of New Nvidia Chips by ByteDance, Alibaba 2d ↗
• cnbc.com China wants in on U.S. AI data center boom. Here's why 3d ↗
• techmeme.com Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing led by Third Point ahead of its US IPO, with $2.36B available immediately and $1B from Nvidia in November (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) 4d ↗
• techcrunch.com Ahead of U.S. IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible finacing 4d ↗
• thenextweb.com Peter Thiel says the pope’s AI encyclical was ‘working for’ China 4d ↗
• thenextweb.com Nscale closed a $3.36B pre-IPO round led by Third Point, with $1B from Nvidia still to come 4d ↗