UCB pays up to $2.2bn for Candid Therapeutics, doubling down on T-cell engagers in autoimmune disease
Anthropic and Wall Street are building a $1.5bn pipeline into private equity
Meta would rather leave New Mexico than rebuild its apps for kids
Samsung swaps its TV chief for the first time in two years as TCL closes in
The West keeps asking how much China subsidises its industries. That is the wrong question.
SK Hynix jumps 12% as Big Tech doubles down on AI memory
China’s robot-hand unicorn Linkerbot is hunting a $6bn valuation
The next satisfactory standard for data governance may not come from Brussels. It may come from Beijing.
The US has banned the world’s best drones. It has not figured out how to make them.
OpenAI just turned ChatGPT into the backend for the most popular open-source project in history. Anthropic banned it.
Tesla is selling Chinese-made cars in Canada to escape the tariffs that both China and America imposed on it
The $599 Mac Mini is dead. AI data centres killed it.
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Meta missed mobile. It is building the operating system for humanoids
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OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.
