Axios

China accused the U.S. violating the trade deal that the world's two largest economies signed last month and vowed to take "resolute and forceful measures," per a briefing on Monday morning local time.

Why it matters: It's the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the two nations since their Switzerland meeting last month led to a deal to lower tariffs on each other for 90 days while they negotiated on trade.

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday is launching an agencywide generative AI tool aimed at helping scientific reviewers, investigators and others streamline their work, according to details shared with Axios.

Why it matters: The model, dubbed "Elsa," is being rolled out weeks ahead of schedule and is designed to help with tasks such as summarizing adverse events to support drug safety profiles, and to generate code for databases.

President Trump's Truth Social account is full of jarring juxtapositions: major trade policy announcements and presidential nominations broken up by bizarre conspiracies and personal boasts.

Why it matters: The president's words matter, whether he's moving markets with tariff threats or spreading unfounded conspiracies about his political rivals, and the White House has mimicked Trump's bellicose online persona.

Former Microsoft and BP execs are launching a startup to quickly deploy data centers with on-site power — and very high efficiency.

Why it matters: Rapidly building and powering data centers — and doing it without straining grids or spiking emissions — is key to the global AI race.

The two most durable and decisive geopolitical topics of the 2020s are fully merging into one existential threat: China and AI supremacy.

• Put simply, America either maintains its economic and early AI advantages, or faces the possibility of a world dominated by communist China.

Why it matters: This is the rare belief shared by both President Trump and former President Biden — oh, and virtually every person studying the geopolitical chessboard.

The AI-fixated tech industry is rapidly dismantling the old web, with no game plan for how to replace it.

State of play: Chatbots have already begun to intercept web traffic and drain publishers' revenue. Now tech giants and startups aim to remodel the devices and browsers we use to access web pages, using AI to summarize or pre-empt the content that people and publishers post online.

Apple filed an appeal to the European Commission's specifications around how the company complies with its interoperability requirements, which compel it to share user information with outside developers as part of the Digital Markets Act, per a source familiar with the situation.

Why it matters: Apple continues to push back forcefully against requirements imposed by the DMA, which the company has said forces it to give up its intellectual property and compromise user privacy.