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China AI talent curbs widen race with Washington
China AI talent curbs show Beijing is trying to keep elite engineers at home as US competition moves beyond chips and models.
Pam Bondi joins Trump White House AI panel after ouster
Pam Bondi's White House AI panel role keeps a recently ousted Trump loyalist inside the administration as it shapes US artificial-intelligence policy.
UK under-16 social media curbs pledged by end of 2026
The UK government has promised new under-16 social media restrictions by the end of 2026 after an 80,000-submission child-safety consultation closed.
Pope Leo AI encyclical pushes governance fight
Pope Leo AI encyclical Magnifica Humanitas turns artificial intelligence into a governance, labor and security test for policymakers.
Scotland's green datacentre push faces AI emissions test
Scotland green datacentres policy is facing scrutiny as campaigners say AI-era power demand has outgrown a pre-ChatGPT planning test.
Trump Mobile data exposure may affect 27,000 customers
Trump Mobile data exposure may have revealed names, addresses and phone numbers tied to about 27,000 preorder customers, the company said.
Trump pulls AI executive order after adviser, tech CEOs revolt
Trump pulled an AI executive order hours before signing it Thursday, after adviser David Sacks, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk intervened.
Spy agencies' AI chip gap drives $9 billion push
Spy agencies' AI chip gap has pushed the White House toward a $9 billion classified compute buildout for intelligence work.
Chip tariffs loom as US weighs levies for domestic fabs
Chip tariffs remain under review as the Trump administration weighs levies to push semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains into the US.
Trump AI executive order targets model cybersecurity review
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as Thursday that would require cybersecurity reviews for advanced artificial intelligence models before release, with officials debating a 90-day government review window.
Nvidia concedes China AI chip market to Huawei
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company has largely conceded China's advanced AI chip market to Huawei, as US export controls accelerate a transfer of AI semiconductor power inside China.
Jury rejects Musk claims against OpenAI after three-week trial
A federal jury sided with OpenAI after a three-week trial, removing a legal overhang as the company pursues more fundraising and a possible future listing.
Gemini 3.5 Flash drives Google’s AI push against rivals
Gemini 3.5 Flash anchors Google's effort to tie AI agents to Search, coding and subscriptions as it presses OpenAI and Anthropic.
PJM price spike pushes AI buildout into utility politics
A 76 per cent jump in first-quarter power costs on the biggest U.S. grid is turning data-center growth into a fight over who pays for transmission, capacity and reliability.
Cisco raises AI forecast as it cuts 4,000 jobs
Cisco beat quarterly expectations, raised its AI infrastructure outlook and said it would cut fewer than 4,000 jobs as it shifts spending toward AI.
Grok Build launches as xAI joins AI coding-agent race
Grok Build puts xAI into the AI coding-agent race as Elon Musk's startup tests a developer tool against Anthropic and other rivals.
Trump-Xi summit leaves Nvidia China sales in limbo
Trump and Xi ended their summit without resolving whether Nvidia can revive H200 sales to China, leaving export controls and chip diplomacy unsettled.
US and China open AI safety talks as rivalry deepens
The US and China will open AI safety talks after Scott Bessent said both sides wanted guardrails on powerful models despite a wider fight over chips and security.
Cerebras pops 68% in Nasdaq debut to hit $95 billion valuation
Shares of AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems surged 68 per cent in their first day of trading, closing at $311.07 and giving the company a market capitalisation of roughly $95 billion in the largest US technology IPO since Uber.
Alibaba, Tencent signal AI spending surge despite earnings pressure
Alibaba and Tencent both missed revenue expectations in the March quarter but signalled sharp increases in artificial-intelligence spending, betting that cloud and chip demand will outrun the near-term hit to profits.
AI Rally Broadens Beyond Chips Before Nvidia Earnings
Wall Street strategists say the AI bull market is entering a new phase where software and services overtake chipmakers as the primary driver of market gains, with Nvidia's May 20 earnings report serving as the next major test.
As commissions vanish, the hidden costs of stock trading come into focus
Commission-free stock trading is now an industry standard — 19 of 22 major brokerages charge zero per trade. But the real costs have simply moved: margin rates ranging from 5.14 to 12.33 per cent, options contract fees of up to $0.65, and execution-quality gaps driven by payment-for-order-flow arrangements. Here is what investors actually pay in 2026.
SpaceX IPO Tests Limits of Market Liquidity Depth
SpaceX plans a $75 billion IPO at a $1.75 trillion valuation. The record listing could drain investor capital from smaller issuers and reshape market flows.
Asia's chip titans create single-point stock market risk
TSMC, Samsung and SK Hynix now dominate Taiwan and South Korea's stock indices, creating concentration risk as hyperscalers pour $500 billion into AI infrastructure.
Big Tech earnings deliver 'wake-up call' to AI skeptics, Wedbush says
First-quarter results from the largest U.S. technology companies showed AI-driven demand holding firm across chips, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software, with 94 percent of the sector beating earnings estimates.
