Washington declined — for now — to add China's DeepSeek to its export blacklist even as it flagged more than 100 other firms as national-security risks, a sign of how tangled the AI-and-trade fight has become.

Ben Thompson and Michael Morton work through what AI does to online retail: why the bear cases are often unfalsifiable, how distribution beats referral, and where grocery and autonomous vehicles fit.

A newer AGESA firmware quietly removed transparent memory encryption from consumer Ryzen parts, leaving owners exposed to cold-boot-style attacks — and AMD engineers have gone quiet when asked why.