OpenAI wants its legal fees from xAI, while Apple comes for OpenAI
DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng overtakes Amodei and Brockman as AI’s richest founder
Masayoshi Son says AI will cost $5tn a year by 2040, and calls bubble talk absurd
Thomson Reuters is cutting engineers and hiring AI-native ones
The father of reinforcement learning is leaving Carmack to build his own AI
Tower Semiconductor puts $3bn into Japan, and Tokyo is paying for a third of it
Switzerland opens a competition probe into Google’s vanishing Android choice screen
Huawei Digital Power now rivals Tesla’s energy division in revenue
Ericsson revenue falls 6% as component costs bite and licensing income dries up
Finland’s NestAI is building the AI layer Europe’s militaries want to own
Intel commits $5.7bn to Xeon production in Ireland
Australia finds serious gaps in Big Tech’s response to child sexual abuse online
Seoul court suspends the order making Coupang’s founder its controlling person
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