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China sanctions US drone maker Skydio in ongoing trade war


China has sanctioned Skydio, America’s largest drone maker, for providing unmanned aerial vehicles to Taiwan’s national fire service

“A few weeks ago, China announced sanctions on Skydio for selling drones to Taiwan, where our only customer today is the National Fire Agency,” Bry wrote in a blog post. Although the company manufactures its drones in the US and sources many of the components that go inside of them from outside of China, Skydio had been wholly dependent on a single Chinese provider for batteries before October 11, when the country’s government imposed the embargo. The biggest news stories this morning: Nothing's first community-designed smartphone glows in the dark, X’s Community Notes feature has one job, and it’s failing to do it,, Meta AI has more than 500 million users.

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