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EU trade chief wants a new tool to break Europe’s dependence on Chinese chips and rare earths

Maroš Šefčovič called for a "diversification instrument" modelled on the Energy Union to force industry off single-supplier dependence in sensitive sectors.
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Former IBM cybersecurity exec accuses company of covering up years of Chinese hacking

A whistleblower lawsuit alleges IBM concealed breaches by Chinese hackers who hit its network 56,000+ times and never told the US government.
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Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute as Musk turns a data centre built for Grok into a cash machine

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for 110,000 Nvidia GPUs through 2029, the second massive compute deal ahead of SpaceX's record $75B IPO at a $1.75T valuation.
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Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act

The EU appointed Siemens chair Jim Hagemann Snabe as AI envoy weeks after the company helped roll back the AI Act. Critics say it hands policy influence to industry lobbyists.
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Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its own code and the world needs a plan to hit the brakes

TL;DRAnthropic reveals that Claude now writes over 80% of its production code, with engineers shipping 8x more code per quarter than in 2024. The company’s new Anthropic Institute paper maps the path ...
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Broadcom steps back from M&A as AI revenue surges

At Bloomberg Tech, Hock Tan said Broadcom is less focused on acquisitions because surging AI revenue makes organic growth the better bet.
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Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is backing a new AI lab focused on user interaction and design, signalling that Silicon Valley's biggest founders no longer trust frontier labs to build what they need.
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Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans to invest $30bn in India by 2030 to build 5GW of data centre capacity, weeks after entering the market through a Lumina CloudInfra acquisition ...
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Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected

Former OpenAI CTO previews Thinking Machines' interaction models, reflects on the Altman firing, and argues AI has too few structural checks in her first appearance in 18 months.
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Russia readies a smaller Starlink, and a 2027 deadline it keeps moving

Russia’s Bureau 1440 plans to begin commercial satellite internet in 2027 with its Rassvet constellation, a deliberately smaller answer to Starlink.
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While tech week talks AI, Scytale is talking about what’s actually killing deals

Scytale ran billboards and an LED truck through NY Tech Week with a single message: your prospect just asked for SOC 2, and you don't have it. The compliance gap is costing AI startups real deals.
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Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.

Uber, Microsoft, and Priceline are scrambling after AI token bills spiralled. The Linux Foundation is launching a Tokenomics Foundation to bring cost discipline to AI spending.