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China scolds e-commerce giants

The scolding dented shares of Alibaba and JD.com and came weeks after regulators told the companies to avoid an aggressive price war.
Isabel Infantes/Reuters

Europe at risk of AI-driven irrelevance

Europe’s AI buildout is orders of magnitude too small, a group of AI policy thinkers warned.
Sembcorp employees stand on a patch of disused land earmarked as a future site for a data center on the Wilton International site near Middlesbrough, BritainPhil Noble/Reuters

Jeff Bezos raises $12B for AI that builds things

The billionaire tech founder returns to CEO role, taps JPMorgan and BlackRock to fund an “artificial general engineer.”
Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj.Courtesy of Prometheus

German court rules on Google AI liability

Search engines are partially protected against liability for their results in most jurisdictions, because they point to outside websites.
A Google Gemini logo. Annegret Hilse/ReutersAnnegret Hilse/Reuters

Nvidia exec touts ‘significant’ data center benefits

Nvidia’s head of sustainability wants to educate policymakers and the public about the positive impacts AI can have.
Amazon Web Services Data CenterJonathan Ernst/Reuters

A Sputnik moment: China’s beating the US in neuroscience

“This is going to be one of the three or four major plot lines of the next decade,” former Neuralink president says.
Max HodakChris Tuite/Semafor

Google quantum exec: US government funding would’ve come with ‘conditions’

Google’s Charina Chou said the government “can do more” to invest in and support the sector.

‘Nobody has budgeted’ for tokenmaxxing, Box’s Levie says

The bullish news for AI companies is that everyone using the technology will keep spending to keep up.

Chinese investors want in on US IPOs

The workaround involves cryptocurrency that purportedly has exposure to the underlying stocks.

SpaceX IPO is oversubscribed

The market debut on Friday is set to be the largest in history.

AI costs rising for businesses: report

Roughly 20% to 30% of operating expenses could come from spending on agents versus humans in the next three to four years, Bain & Company reported.

The case for data centers in space

Building data centers in space could be cost-effective by the early 2030s, analysis suggested.

Abu Dhabi continues to attract startup founders despite war

Organizers feared a subdued annual gathering for Abu Dhabi’s seven-year-old entrepreneurial center Hub71; the vibe at the event this week was anything but.

Europe expands regulatory crackdown on Big Tech

Brussels ordered Meta to reverse a block on third-party AI assistants on WhatsApp.

China tech on display at World Cup

Sports sponsorships in recent years have gone beyond traditional advertising.

The case for space data centers

By the early 2030s, space data centers could be only around 30% more expensive than terrestrial ones.

China’s $300 billion plan to build more data centers

The government wants to construct a network of “computing hubs.”

Anthropic releases guardrailed version of Mythos for public use

The company acknowledged that without safeguards, Fable 5 was a dangerous model in the hands of bad actors.