{"id":351224,"date":"2025-12-16T02:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351224\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T02:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:02:10","slug":"us-suspends-technology-deal-with-britain-ft-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/351224\/","title":{"rendered":"US suspends technology deal with Britain, FT reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dec 15 (Reuters) &#8211; The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck \u200bwith Britain earlier this year, which was \u200cintended to boost ties in <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a>, quantum computing \u200cand civil nuclear energy, the Financial Times reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">British officials on Monday confirmed the U.S. suspended the deal last week, the FT \u2060said, adding \u200cthat U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration was pushing for Britain&#8217;s concessions in \u200dareas of trade outside the tech partnership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">U.S. officials were becoming increasingly frustrated with Britain&#8217;s lack of willingness \u200bto address so-called non-tariff barriers, including rules \u200cand regulations governing food and industrial goods, the FT said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The White House and British government did not immediately respond to Reuters&#8217; requests \u2060for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In September, during Trump&#8217;s \u200bvisit to Britain, both \u200bcountries agreed to a &#8220;Tech Prosperity Deal&#8221; to boost ties in artificial intelligence, quantum \u200dcomputing and \u2060civil nuclear energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The U.S. is Britain&#8217;s largest trading partner, and its big tech companies \u2060have already invested billions of dollars in their UK \u200coperations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; \u200cEditing by Christopher Cushing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 15 (Reuters) &#8211; The United States has suspended a technology deal it struck \u200bwith Britain earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,181,7676,139953,3,12422,942,2047,174859,3665,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-351224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-britain","tag-british-officials","tag-news","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-quantum-computing","tag-technology-deal","tag-the-united-states","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}