Macron and Modi are winning the AI infrastructure race with text messages and personal meetings
India summons Meta over Instagram ads promoting child sexual abuse material
OpenAI apparently never visited the site of its flagship UK AI project
Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code
Hong Kong now handles more than half of China’s chip imports
Starling Bank cuts 130 jobs as it bets on AI and looks beyond the UK
Australia’s child social media ban is failing, and the Senate just delayed the fix
Nearly a million investors lost $3.8 billion on the Trump memecoin. Trump made $636 million.
China is rewriting e-commerce law to tighten platform rules at home and shield its companies abroad
China wants cinemas to sell you karaoke and coffee, not just tickets
Germany’s most conservative banks are about to let millions of customers buy Bitcoin
Micron breaks ground on $9bn Hiroshima expansion to chase AI memory demand
The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him
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