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Here's your T&B Tech Minute for Wednesday, January 15th.

I'm Bell Lynn for the Wall Street Journal.

General Motors has signed a multi-billion dollar deal with Norway's Vianode

for the delivery of a material critical for electric vehicle batteries.

Vianode will supply synthetic anode graphite that will be used in next-generation EV batteries produced by ultium cells, GM's battery joint venture with LG Energy Solution.

The Norwegian company will build production facilities in North America and be ready to start shipping the material in 2027, with the deal running through 2033.

The companies did not provide further financial details.

The Biden administration is rolling out a flurry of new restrictions on Chinese companies

and their access to advanced chips.

It's part of the administration's last ditch effort to clamp down

on China's ability to harness artificial intelligence for its military and tech sector. The latest

rules tighten oversight on chipmakers that ship advanced semiconductors to China, requiring them to seek

licenses for transactions unless the chip's performance falls

below a certain technical threshold. The restrictions also put more than two dozen new entities

on a trade blacklist. China's Commerce Ministry spokesperson said in a statement before the release of

the latest rules that China was, quote, strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposed

to the recent trade restrictions by the Biden White House. And the European Union will

fully enforce its own laws designed to regulate big tech, according to the European Commission.

The comment came in a press conference today from its executive vice president

in charge of technological sovereignty, security, and democracy. Tech executives in recent days

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