While Silicon Valley debates regulation, China's building its AI manufacturing base in Europe's back door. Chinese companies are investing €940 million ($1.1 billion) in Serbia, focused on AI, robotics, and automotive manufacturing
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The company that trained your attention span is now training the largest AI models outside of American hands. ByteDance is planning $60-70 billion in capex over 2026-2027, primarily for AI infrastructure and chips—rivaling Meta's entire 2026 budget
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A Nobel laureate just said the quiet part loud: AI won't destroy jobs, but the companies deploying it might choose to anyway.
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Huawei just announced a chipmaking strategy that could sidestep US sanctions and rewrite the rules of AI infrastructure—if it works. Huawei unveiled a chip architecture approach called "LogicFolding" amid surging global AI chip demand from Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft
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Export controls are just maps that show smugglers where to drive. Taiwan prosecutors suspect three individuals smuggled Nvidia AI chips to China via Japan, exploiting a well-worn loophole in the U.S. export control regime
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The smartphone chipmaker is walking into Nvidia's house with ByteDance as its dance partner. Qualcomm has struck a deal with ByteDance to supply AI chips for data centers, marking a strategic pivot from its smartphone chip dominance into ASIC territory
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The man who shepherded crypto through its first regulatory awakening says prediction markets got ahead of their legal framework — and now Washington has to catch up without killing what's working.
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While China slashes arts degrees to go all-in on STEM, the CEO of the company making AI possible is telling parents the opposite.
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The Vatican just published 245 paragraphs arguing that your training data isn't yours to sell, and brought a man currently suing the Pentagon to help make the case.
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Qualcomm just got ByteDance to bet on its AI chips instead of Nvidia's, which means someone thinks the agent infrastructure race has more than one winner. Qualcomm signed a deal to supply AI data center chips to ByteDance, marking the company's push beyond smartphones into AI infrastructure
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The biggest IPO in history is a space company—and the valuation has almost nothing to do with rockets. SpaceX is raising $75 billion at a $1.75-2 trillion valuation, the largest IPO ever attempted. The company controls 51% of global orbital launches and 85% of satellites deployed in 2025.
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The world's capital just voted with its wallet: chips beat people. Taiwan's stock market surpassed India to become the world's fifth-largest, driven almost entirely by AI hardware demand
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Beijing just turned its AI researchers into flight risks who can't actually fly. China is now restricting overseas travel for top AI talent at private companies like Alibaba and DeepSeek, extending controls previously limited to state employees
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The firm that bet early on the app where millions of Americans fled when TikTok's fate looked shaky is now raising capital — and timing matters. GSR Ventures, early investor in RedNote (Xiaohongshu), is raising a new $350 million fund
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China just announced a workaround for the chip sanctions that were supposed to cripple its AI ambitions.
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The picks-and-shovels narrative just hit a $40 billion pothole, and it's not in California. Fujikura, a 141-year-old Japanese cable manufacturer, lost $40 billion in market value in a sudden selloff that rattled AI infrastructure investors globally
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When you need to multiply your infrastructure budget by seven just to keep the lights on, you're not scaling—you're chasing a runaway train. Sakura Internet may increase capital spending nearly 7x its original plan to meet AI demand in Japan
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The price war OpenAI started is now a race to zero, and a Chinese lab just made sure no one can afford to charge premium rates again.
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Australia just turned every crypto withdrawal into a paperwork exercise, and the institutional money is probably celebrating. Binance Australia will require full sender and beneficiary information for all crypto transfers starting July 1, implementing the FATF Travel Rule at the exchange level
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The world's most powerful AI companies just watched the White House blink first. Trump scrapped a planned executive order requiring government safety reviews of new AI models hours before signing, citing competition with China as justification
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