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tnb tech minute for tuesday december third ird. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.

We exclusively report that Amazon's cloud computing arm says it's planning to build a massive supercomputer dedicated to artificial intelligence development.

The so-called ultra-cluster will be made up of hundreds of thousands of Amazon Web Services Traneum chips, as well as a new

server. The supercomputer is expected to be completed next year and will be one of the largest

in the world for training AI models. It will be used by AI startup Anthropic, in which Amazon

has invested billions of dollars. Microsoft is facing a $1.27 billion anti-trust lawsuit in the United

Kingdom over how it charges customers who buy rival cloud software services. The lawsuit filed with the

UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal alleges that Microsoft is unfairly charging businesses more if they

buy a Windows server, but use it with other cloud

platforms, like Google or Amazon.

Microsoft declined to comment.

Meanwhile, China is retaliating against the latest U.S. trade restrictions on chips by limiting

exports of key raw materials.

Citing national security concerns, China's Ministry of Commerce said it would in

principle ban the export of gallium, germanium, antimony, and certain other extremely hard

materials to the U.S. The ministry also said it would conduct stricter reviews of the export

of graphite and ban the export of dual-use items intended for U.S. military purposes.

And Tesla's sales in China fell in November amid intensifying competition from rivals like B.D.

Data from the China Passenger Car Association found Elon Musk's electric vehicle maker sold almost

79,000 China-made cars in November, down 4.3% compared

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