Investigation: some Chinese companies approved by the US Commerce Department to handle Nvidia's H200 chips have empty offices and ties to firms under sanctions
The Commerce Department has approved dozens of Chinese companies to handle Nvidia's H200 chips, some of which have ties to firms under sanctions over national security.
US Treasury moves to cut crypto exchange MEXC off from the US financial system, alleging $16B+ in illicit flows, including Russian and Iranian sanctions evasion
The U.S. Treasury is moving to cut off crypto exchange MEXC from the U.S. financial system, alleging that it handled …
Global tablet shipments fell 23% YoY to 32M units in Q3 2026, their lowest level in nearly three years; Apple's iPad shipments fell 27.5% YoY to ~11.58M
The global tablet market fell 23% year-over-year (YoY) to 32 million units in Q3 2026, marking its lowest shipment level in nearly three years …
Censys finds 800+ publicly exposed copies of ARTEX, a Chinese-made, AI-powered, open-source penetration testing tool linked to several cyberattacks since July
Security researchers have discovered hundreds of copies of a Chinese-made AI hacking tool publicly exposed to the internet for anyone to access …
Binance says CFO Kaiser Ng is leaving to “pursue a new venture” days after a $6.3B hack, citing a six-month transition plan, and names Justin Yek as CFO
Kaiser Ng, the chief financial officer at Binance Holdings Ltd., the world's largest crypto exchange …
How a small, wealthy AI-safety network that organized in Signal chats grew into a coalition that beat the $100M super PAC Leading the Future in the midterms
For years, the policy debate over artificial intelligence belonged to those who counted progress in decades.
Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof “shocking news”; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption
A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly.
Apple says the App Store has over 100K apps built for the iPhone Duo and “thousands of optimized apps are being added to the store each day”
Nous Research unveils Arete-27B, a post-trained Qwen3.8-27B model that reinforces Western values, saying the underlying Chinese model's bias layer is shallow
We post-trained over Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B to reinforce Western values on a Chinese-trained model. We call this new model Arete-27B.
Public records appear to show SpaceX building a “Starbase supercomputer” in TX, but Gina Hinojosa's election as governor may delay some of the data center plans
Elon Musk moved early to build AI data centers in Tennessee and Mississippi and reaped the rewards.
Chicago-based data analytics company Ocient raised a $100M Series C co-led by Boka Capital and OCA Ventures to grow its agentic AI analytics business
Ocient Inc., the maker of a speedy data analytics platform, today said it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding to expand …
Report: SEA makes up ~50% of APAC data center capacity being built, led by Malaysia and Thailand, which paused 49 and delayed approvals of 117 projects in Sept.
Power and water constraints are pressuring what seemed like a juggernaut of growth for the region just months ago
Democratic wins could slow AI investment and safeguard the US economy against a downturn by pacing it over time, as Deutsche Bank sees “shaky” projects killed
Guardrails against data-center expansion in states won by Democrats may help spread investment over time.
Meta introduces specialized versions of its existing models, trained using Muse Wonder, bringing Active Memory and Active Focus to all Muse and Meta AI users
Axon invests $1.2B in Skydio, whose autonomous drones are used by public safety agencies, the US military, and 32 allied nations, at a $5.2B pre-money valuation
Sources: US intelligence concluded that Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was recruited by China's top spy agency MSS to collect intelligence on Jensen Huang
because the administration knew what was going on and did nothing.Scott Stedman /@scottmstedman:This is the spy story of the decade.Chris McGuire /@chrisrmcguire:So now we know that the IC asses not o...
Beijing-based GenRobot AI, which develops equipment and software for collecting human demonstrations that can be used to train robots, raised a $100M Series A+
GenRobot AI, a Beijing-based company providing data infrastructure for robot development, has completed a $100 million Series A+ funding round.
Internal documents leaked by Cisco workers angry over the company's ties to Israel's military show how it expanded its business as the war in Gaza dragged on
Tech giant leaped to shore up relationship even as company was roiled by worker protest over its role in the warForums:r/geopoliticsForums:r/geopolitics:A ‘customer success story’: leaked documents sh...
The crypto industry is bracing for a reckoning after Democrats won the US midterms and vowed to investigate the Trump family and its ties to the industry
Democrats have vowed to start investigation into president's family after sweeping victory in midterms
Nasscom President Rajesh Nambiar warns AI could make it harder for fresh Indian engineering graduates to find jobs, urging an immediate CS curriculum overhaul
BENGALURU — Recent college graduates in India could struggle to land technology jobs as companies automate entry-level coding …Forums:r/worldnewsForums:r/worldnews:India's IT lobby chief warns grads c...
How differences in economics, public policy, and cultural patterns could explain greater pessimism about AI in the West than in Asia and emerging economies
Filings: Apple saved $2.7B in taxes this year by routing up to $50B in profits through Singapore, exceeding the $2.6B in tax savings it achieved via Ireland
City-state overtakes Ireland as iPhone maker's biggest tax shelter according to new disclosures — Apple shaved $2.7bn off …
Major environmental groups are embracing AI to analyze climate data, track forest fires, and more, even as they warn of the environmental impact of data centers
Environmental groups worldwide are using artificial intelligence to analyze climate data, track forest fires and count endangered wildlife …Forums:r/neoliberalForums:r/neoliberal:Environmental groups ...
Sources: OpenAI has closed on new funding of roughly $11B at a $1.25T valuation; the round could increase to as much as $20B in total
Sources: US officials believe Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Alice Huang, who they allege was recruited to spy for China's top spy agency, MSS
American intelligence warned the tech boss was involved with executive recruited by China to gather information on US group
Huawei unveils HarmonyOS-powered Qinyun HM650 series desktop PCs for enterprise and government users, saying they use “100% domestically made” components
Beijing-based Sand.ai, an AI startup specializing in video generation, raised a $200M Series A+, bringing its total funding over the past 10 months to $300M
Shenzhen, home to tech giants and an illicit trade of smuggled chips and stolen iPhones, is clearing out its illegitimate markets ahead of the APEC summit
Anthropic-backed AI safety super PAC Public First spent $63M+ in the 2026 midterms, and 10 of the 17 congressional candidates it backed won their elections
Candidates who favor stricter oversight of artificial intelligence racked up wins in key congressional races, aided …