A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan's subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, leading Meituan to a big Q3 loss and internal debate over global expansion
Competition from Alibaba and JD.com for fast-growing instant retail market has hit the Beijing-based group
Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency
but will Beijing want them? Taylor Herzlich / New York Post : China to restrict access to Nvidia's advanced H200 chips — as Trump looks to lift export curbs: report Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder ...
GPT-5 hands-on: it exudes competence but doesn't feel like a dramatic leap ahead of other LLMs, and the pricing is aggressively competitive with other providers
And It Changes Everything Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution : GPT-5, a short and enthusiastic review GPT-5 : GPT-5 — Our hands-on review of OpenAI's newest model based on weeks of testing — The Ve...
Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters
It's a privacy nightmare and is the slipperest of slopes. @kaidzsu.com : my headcanon is twitter rolled out the UK age verification nightmare for the entirety of Europe because the one remaining devel...
SCOTUS upholds a broadband subsidy program for low-income users, schools, and others, rejecting claims that its funding mechanism is unconstitutional
The Supreme Court rejected claims that the way the Universal Service Fund is implemented is unconstitutional.
Meta agrees to buy power from Constellation Energy's Illinois nuclear plant, signing a 20-year deal that starts in mid-2027 when a 10-year state subsidy expires
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While addressing Congress, President Trump calls to “get rid” of the $52B CHIPS and Science Act and use the leftover amount to “reduce debt or any other reason”
President Donald Trump called for an end to a landmark $52 billion semiconductor subsidy program that's spurred …
Sources: President Trump is cutting ~40% of staff in the US government office responsible for the $52B CHIPS Act, including ~40 who are considered probationary
The US government office responsible for a marquee $52 billion chip subsidy program will lose about two-fifths of its staff …
India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, meant to enforce the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments
Draft of rules proposed … Debanish Achom / NDTV : Parents' Consent Must For Children's Social Media Accounts: Draft Data Rules Mathrubhumi English : Draft rules for digital privacy notified; Kids unde...
The US Commerce Department finalizes $6.1B+ for memory chipmaker Micron to fund its New York and Idaho factory projects, one of the largest CHIPS Act subsidies
The U.S. Department of Commerce has finalized a subsidy of more than $6.1 billion for memory chip maker Micron Technology (MU.O) …