📰 News SK Hynix Just Raised $26.5 Billion on Nasdaq — and It Was 7x Oversubscribed
SK Hynix raised $26.5bn in its Nasdaq debut — 7x oversubscribed, beating Aramco and Alibaba. The HBM monopoly just went global, and Wall Street can't get enough.
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📰 News Trump Just Opened the AI Chip Floodgates to the UAE — and Nobody's Sure What Comes Through
The UAE can now buy advanced computing tech without a license. The move clears the biggest regulatory barrier to Gulf AI expansion — and hands Nvidia a new mega-market on a plate.
📰 News China Just Quietly Unblocked Nvidia's H200 — But the Real Story Is Who Gets Cut Out
Beijing is easing its own H200 import blockade, allowing Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek to buy limited Nvidia chips. But the 200,000 cap is less than half what they wanted.
📰 News Cognition's SWE-1.7 Nearly Matches GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on Coding — at a Fraction of the Cost
Cognition's SWE-1.7 scores 42.3% on FrontierCode 1.1, nearly matching GPT-5.5 (43%) and Opus 4.8 (46.5%) at a fraction of the cost. Trained from Kimi K2.7's base, it proves RL post-training has no ceiling.
📰 News Mistral's Robostral Navigate: One Camera, No Lidar, State-of-the-Art Robot Navigation
Robostral Navigate uses one ordinary camera and plain-language instructions to guide robots through buildings — outperforming LiDAR systems.
📰 News From America's Cup to Flying Cars — The AI Infrastructure That Could Make New Zealand a Global eVTOL Leader
NZ already builds the airframes, the hydrogen fuel systems, the autonomous flight controls, and the drones. What it doesn't have is the AI infrastructure to connect them into a global eVTOL play.
📰 News OpenAI's GPT-Live Can Finally Talk and Listen at the Same Time — and It Changes Everything
OpenAI's GPT-Live is a full-duplex voice model that listens while it speaks, delegates deep reasoning to GPT-5.5, and ships globally today. The stilted era of AI voice is over.
📰 News Grok 4.5 Lands — Fastest Coding Model at Half the Price, but Claude Still Builds Better
Grok 4.5 delivers 110 TPS and 4x token efficiency, but Fable 5 dominates SWE Bench Pro at 80.4% vs Grok's 64.7%.
📰 News Wall Street Banks Watched $5.8 Billion in AI Deals Go to Rivals — From the Sidelines
Hong Kong's AI IPO bonanza is minting fortunes — but not for Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley. Chinese banks are taking the deals, the fees, and the future pipeline.
📰 News The Security Team Sees Drones Everywhere — Why AI Regulation Is Being Built for the Worst Case and Applied to Everyone
Social media bans for kids, AI chatbot regulation, and UK ministerial power to define 'illegal AI content' — the security mindset is becoming default policy for everyone.
📰 News DeepSeek Is Building Its Own Chips — and It Just Changed the Geopolitical AI Map
DeepSeek is designing custom inference chips to escape US export controls and Huawei's grip on China's domestic chip market — the same vertical-integration play OpenAI and Anthropic are making in the US.
📰 News Microsoft Is Quietly Replacing OpenAI and Anthropic With Its Own AI in Excel and Outlook
Microsoft is replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own in-house MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook, per Bloomberg. The $18 billion AI partnership era is fraying at the edges.