nations like britain and germany arent yielding to american pressure to block huawei from building nextgeneration 5g wireless networks over national security riskspoorer countries are likely to be won over by price huawei is one of the leading and cheapest developers of 5g technology for some countries wanting to jumpstart economies with fast wireless networks siding with china may be the only optionsuch fragmentation may affect consumers ms fu points out that in a globalized economy manufacturing takes place in the most efficient locationa move to protectionism would prompt china and the united states to relocate production domestically or at least to ally nations which could drive up prices of devices and the development and deployment of 5g in a fragmented environment could lack economies of scale afforded by globalism mr segal said that could potentially delay its rollout and increase costwelcome to techs cold warqualcomms court lossgeopolitics isnt the only force of change in the smartphone industry so is the tech industrys new obsession antitruston tuesday judge lucy koh of united states district court in san jose calif ruled that qualcomm had suppressed competition in the smartphone chip market and charged onerous fees for the use of its patentsqualcomms licensing practices have strangled competition she wrote it must now strike new licensing agreements and be monitored for seven years to ensure compliancephone makers particularly apple had bristled at qualcomms royalties which could be as high as 5 percent of a handsets wholesale price apple turned the other cheek and settled its royalty case with qualcomm last month sacrificing 27 billion in damages and making a payment of at least 45 billion to use qualcomms 5g chips so the ruling could reduce costs for smartphone makers and consumersit also undercuts qualcomms business model which is largely based on profits from patent fees it could also complicate efforts by the united states to assert itself in the creation of 5g networksamericas first ai rulesthe organization for economic cooperation and development announced a set of principles on wednesday to guide the development of artificial intelligence conspicuous by its presence on the list of nations backing the rules the united statesthe trump administration long shied away from such policies but as my colleague steve lohr reported in april it was spurred into action by a wave of tech regulation particularly europes new general data protection regulation the realization regulations that would affect the nations tech industry were coming and federal officials needed to participate if they were to shape themso the administration decided to collaborate with the organization for economic cooperation and development and this is the first time that it has formally endorsed a set of international ai guidelinesthe guidelines which suggest that ai should benefit people and the planet and be designed to respect the rule of law and human rights among other things arent legally bindingbut jack clark the head of policy at openai an artificial intelligence lab in san francisco said it was quite significant that the united states