China is pushing the U.S. to loosen its export restrictions on high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, ahead of a possible summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The HBM chips are vital for advanced artificial intelligence applications and are often integrated with AI processors to maximize performance in handling the large data loads involved in AI training and inference.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the leaders of China, India and three ex-Soviet states on Friday in a flurry of calls to brief them on his contacts with the United States about the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday flexed his country’s ties with India and China ahead of President Trump’s announcement of a planned meeting with Putin in Alaska on Aug. 17. Putin held phone calls with both Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday,