Light’s first flip phone strips out the touchscreen, apps, social media, and AI. The $299 Light Flip is built for the digital-detox crowd, shipping 2027.

Moonshot AI is closing a $31.5bn round and lining up another at up to $50bn before a Hong Kong IPO, riding Kimi K3, even as open-weight AI loses money.

Treasury's Scott Bessent says the US may sanction Chinese AI models for 'IP theft'. Nvidia's Jensen Huang calls the panic backwards: 'Zero possibility'.

BlackRock is leading a $12bn debt sale to build Meta's El Paso data centre, owning 80% and keeping most of the cost off Meta's balance sheet.

A Stanford study finds US computer-science enrolment fell for the first time in two decades, as AI writes code, though the economist won't blame AI yet.

Deezer says AI-generated music now tops 90,000 daily uploads, more than half its total, and most of it is streaming fraud. It's deleting the fakes.

Ion Stoica's Berkeley team raised $20M for SkyPilot, a provider-neutral control plane that pools scattered AI compute across 20+ clouds into one.

Google, Ford, Carhartt, and BlackRock launched an alliance to fill 2.1 million skilled-trade jobs by 2030, the work AI can't automate away.

Energy North wants to build a 1GW off-grid AI data centre at Murranji Station in Australia’s gas-rich Barkly region, with the full project reported at around $28bn.

AI use in UK businesses rose from 12% to 35% since 2023, but the average adopter uses just 1.6 tools. Nexthink's Scott Pope says the gap is a culture problem.

The FT says Samsung could invest hundreds of millions of euros in Mistral at a roughly €20bn valuation. Neither company has confirmed the talks.

Wistron has opened its first US factory in Fort Worth, a $700m plant already mass-producing Nvidia’s GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra superchips.