The Gate Became a Market
After years of U.S.-China controls, the contest has moved from chip access to model distribution. Three Chinese hard-technology funds, each worth more than $7.1 billion, show the substitution system forming behind the restrictions.
Researchers say Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches latest US models at finding security bugs, as critics question the US' lax approach in restricting Chinese open models
Clampdown on top U.S. artificial intelligence is fueling concern that Washington is handing Beijing a cyberwarfare advantage
Netflix has been gradually requiring each profile under a Netflix subscription to use a unique email address; the rule doesn't apply to children's profiles
Recently, my father called me in a panic. — There were just a few minutes until Netflix would start streaming a live MMA event, and he couldn't get into my account.
Masayoshi Son questioned Musk's orbital AI data centers, noting electricity is just 7% of costs and the AI race will be won on Earth within a few years
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son thinks the math doesn't support space-based data centers — Some people have expressed skepticism …
Australian government says it plans to double the maximum penalty for any social media company breaking its minimum age law and grant more powers to enforcers
The fine can now potentially hit 99 million AUD, or $68 million. — After becoming the first in the world to implement …
President Trump threatens to impose a 100% tariff on any country that imposes a digital services tax on US companies
The rapid pace of AI progress has created a pervasive fear of missing out across Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders, executives, employees, and VCs
Claude Code is cutting into sleep time. — Matt Van Horn, a serial entrepreneur and father of four, never turns his laptop off anymore.
An analysis of US payroll data across 730+ occupations: employment among workers ages 22 to 25 in highly AI-exposed jobs is now shrinking by 3.8% per year
Last August, a team led by Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson published a deep look at the impact of AI on jobs, boosted by a …
Letter: Austria is pushing the EU to consider hosting Anthropic within its borders, highlighting EU efforts to boost bloc independence from US and Chinese tech
Austria is pushing the European Union to consider hosting Anthropic PBC within its borders to counter US efforts to block foreigners …
A profile of Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old former Snap exec leading Microsoft's consolidated Copilot team efforts to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic
Andreou, who once led product at social media firm Snap, is head of Microsoft Copilot. — Early this year, Jacob Andreou had a crucial goal.
Sports clips' rise on platforms like YouTube has left broadcasters debating whether to use them to attract younger viewers or protect their subscription revenue
As the New York Knicks clinched their first championship in 53 years and the NBA notched its highest Finals series ratings since 1998 …
Sources: Russian hackers were behind a 2025 ransomware attack on Jaguar Land Rover that used “mind-blowing” encryption and cost UK's economy an estimated $2.5B
Australia-based Firmus partners with Nvidia to build its first data center in Batam, Indonesia; the 360 MW Nvidia DSX AI factory campus is developed with DayOne
Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd. will build its first data center project in Indonesia as part of a partnership with US chip giant Nvidia Corp. …
Brazil, which has struggled to standardize soccer talent scouting, is embracing AI-powered scouting apps that assess players by analyzing video clips and more
Recruitment apps powered by artificial intelligence are gaining ground in Brazil, promising to even the playing field and find more soccer talent.
Sources: Google told Meta around March it couldn't offer all the Gemini capacity Meta wanted to buy, disrupting and delaying some of Meta's internal AI projects
Surging appetite for advanced models is turning computing power into the tech industry's scarcest commodity
Sources: Salesforce staff worry Anthropic's Claude Tag could cannibalize Slackbot and give the AI firm more leverage over the enterprise software industry
When Anthropic on Tuesday launched a high-profile AI product for businesses that use Slack, some employees at Salesforce, which owns Slack, were confused.
A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including “transfer station” sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users
As Anthropic tightens restrictions on access to Claude in China, users keep finding new workarounds, from proxy services to fake identities sourced on Telegram.LinkedIn:Zeyi YangLinkedIn:Zeyi Yang:Des...
Sources: Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin Technology plans a Hong Kong IPO at a $50B target valuation, asking investors to buy chips worth 3-7x their IPO investment
In China, chip companies may have found a new clientele for their semiconductors: IPO investors.
How AI is shaping the 2026 US midterms, as public anger grows against data center expansion and the AI industry emerges as one of the biggest financial backers
From data center backlash to boundless cash from tech billionaires and concerns about deepfaked campaign ads, AI is everywhere in the 2026 US elections.
A look at South Korea's four vocational “meister” schools that train students to work in semiconductor manufacturing, leading to jobs at Samsung and SK Hynix
Chungbuk Semiconductor High School in Eumseong County, South Korea, is the oldest vocational high school …
Apple's appeal to a London Court of Appeal ruling begins Monday at the UK Supreme Court; the ruling required it to pay $502M for using Optis' wireless patents
Battle over licensing of mobile connection protocols could shape global rates for other technologies
AI executives and lobbyists say they are seeking regulatory clarity from the Trump administration but are wary of pressing for answers, fearing retaliation
Streaming services must comply with a California law that bans playing ads louder than the content being watched from July 1, but its implementation is unclear
GPT-5.6 system card indicates Sol is well below the level of most worrisome Mythos use cases, suggesting all GPT-5.6 versions could be released without delay
While we wait for a general release, the system card is the best hint as to what is going on with the new candidate for America's Next Top Model, GPT-5.6.
Polymarket says its annualized revenue is now $1B+; Dune Analytics: daily volume on Polymarket's US platform rose from ~$50M in mid-May to $200M+ by June 20
Source: the Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to Fable 5; limits could be lifted as soon as this coming week
The Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to its powerful Fable 5 model, which has been offline for 15 days …
Anthropic says the US government is allowing Mythos 5 to be redeployed to critical infrastructure operators, and is working to restore general access to Fable 5
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LSEG: tech companies have raised $3.1B from mainland China stock market listings YTD, up 5x+ from a year earlier, as AI and chip companies drive onshore IPOs
China's onshore technology IPOs are on track for their strongest year since 2023 as Beijing seeks to bolster listings of chip …
Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own
Tokyo-based Sakana AI's Fugu and China-based 360's cybersecurity model Tulongfeng claim to rival Anthropic's banned Mythos and Fable 5 amid the US export ban
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