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Trump's CEO delegation to Beijing reveals which industries he wants deals in, and which he has given up on

The guest list for this week's state visit reads as a map of American commercial interests in China, but the absences of Google, GM and Disney suggest some relationships are beyond repair

GLP-1 specialist Novo Nordisk's abandoned Parkinson's therapy finds a second life at a Zuckerberg-backed AI startup,...

Cellular Intelligence acquires STEM-PD, a stem cell treatment that replaces lost brain neurons, seven months after Novo fired 250 researchers and shut down its entire cell therapy division to focus on weight-loss drugs

Nadella's testimony reveals Microsoft as a shrewd investor that backed OpenAI only when profit became possible, compl...

The Microsoft chief executive told the court he was "very proud" of betting on OpenAI when nobody else would, but internal emails from 2018 show a company that was anything but sentimental about the investment.

GM's latest IT layoffs are not about AI replacing workers, but the pattern of cuts is starting to tell a different story

The automaker has shed more than 1,000 technology workers in 18 months while simultaneously hiring for AI and autonomous vehicle roles, a workforce swap that reveals how the automotive industry's skill requirements are shifting beneath its employees' feet

AI glasses: how they change sight, sharing and interaction

The market has split into three distinct product categories, each betting on a different answer to how people will interact with artificial intelligence when their hands are busy

NVIDIA names Suzanne Nora Johnson to board

The GPU maker has appointed former Goldman Sachs vice chairman Suzanne Nora Johnson to its board of directors, the company said in an announcement.

Google catches hackers using AI to build a zero-day exploit for the first time, confirming the threat the cybersecuri...

The attack targeted a popular system administration tool and was disrupted before it caused damage, but Google's chief threat analyst says the era of AI-driven exploitation 'is already here'

TSMC's $1.5 trillion forecast and 30% growth guidance reveal the true scale of the AI hardware buildout

The world's most important chipmaker is spending at the top of its capital expenditure range and says it has more advanced manufacturing capacity than every competitor combined

DeFi's $96m payout month marks the moment crypto protocols started behaving like businesses

Hyperliquid, Pump.fun and EdgeX returned nearly $100 million to token holders in 30 days, but only one funded the distribution entirely from trading fees, exposing the gap between real revenue and financial engineering

Kuaishou's $20bn Kling spinoff is a bold bet that AI video generation can stand on its own, but the maths do not yet...

The Chinese short-video company is separating its fastest-growing AI product into a standalone business, staking its future on a unit that generated $150 million last year against $3.8 billion in planned investment

Cerebras's 20-times oversubscribed IPO is the clearest signal yet that the AI chip market is no longer Nvidia's alone

The inference-focused chipmaker is raising its price range to as high as $160 per share and could raise $4.8 billion in what would be the world's largest listing this year

China's agentic AI regulations are the most detailed in the world, and the West has nothing comparable

Beijing's draft framework for autonomous software agents tackles questions about decision-making boundaries, human override rights and sector-specific standards that neither the EU's AI Act nor any US legislation has addressed at this level of specificity

OpenAI is outmanoeuvring Anthropic on cyber diplomacy, and Europe is the prize

By offering the EU direct access to its defensive AI model while Anthropic keeps Mythos under tight control, OpenAI is positioning itself as the cooperative partner Brussels wants to work with

The $1 trillion industry that runs on a machine no one else can build

AI chips accounted for more than a quarter of all chips sold in 2025

Strategy's 'never sell' Bitcoin doctrine is over, and its own preferred stock killed it

The company that built a $66 billion cryptocurrency treasury on the promise of permanent accumulation now faces $1.5 billion in annual dividend obligations that make selective selling a mathematical inevitability

Google is finally letting Pixel users remove the search bar from their home screen, and it should never have taken th...

A leaked Android 17 build shows a toggle to hide the fixed search bar, ending years of complaints about one of the most stubborn design decisions in mobile software

Apple's AI monetisation strategy could add $100 to the stock

Its decision to open iOS to third-party AI models will turn the iPhone into the consumer hub of artificial intelligence, generating $15 billion in new services revenue.

Elon Musk's corporate nesting dolls have swallowed xAI, X and now Anthropic's compute needs into SpaceX

The dissolution of xAI as a standalone company and its absorption into SpaceX creates a conglomerate with no precedent in the technology industry, and a governance structure that raises more questions than it answers

OpenAI trial's real revelation is how much AI's future was shaped by ego, fear and text messages

Court filings and testimony have exposed the messy, personal dynamics behind the founding and fracturing of OpenAI, and the discovery process is only getting started

Apple's $250m Siri settlement is the price of selling a product that did not exist

The company marketed AI features alongside the iPhone 16 that were not ready, pulled the ads months later, and is now paying customers up to $95 each for the gap between promise and reality