Microsoft says its new $30bn (£22bn) investment in the UK's AI sector - its largest outside of the US - should significantly boost Britain's economy in the next few years.

The world’s most valuable company was dragged further into the U.S.-China trade war after Beijing’s top cybersecurity regulator urged big tech firms not to buy one of its newest chips.

Top U.S. tech firms, including Microsoft, Nvidia and Google, have unveiled billions of dollars’ worth of new AI investments in the United Kingdom amid President Trump’s state visit.   Microsoft

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Artificial intelligence (AI) investing is a remarkably broad field, as there are numerous ways to profit from this trend. Two of the most popular are Nvidia ( NVDA -1.55%) and Palantir ( PLTR -0.58%), which represent two different sides of AI investing.

China's internet regulator has instructed the nation's biggest technology firms to stop buying all of Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips and terminate their existing orders, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

KEY TAKEAWAYS CoreWeave said Monday it has signed a $6.3 billion initial order with Nvidia with a condition that the AI chip star buys unsold capacity, sending shares in the cloud computing platform surging.