Breaking news, AGI updates, and analysis of the intelligence revolution.
📰 News Mark Zuckerberg opposes banning Chinese AI models, calling the strategy ineffective. He's not alone — Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman have all pushed back against restrictions on Chinese AI. The position puts tech's biggest CEOs at odds with the Trump administration's escalating tech crackdown.
📰 News Anthropic's CEO clarifies the company's stance on open-weight AI models, backing chip export controls and safety testing over protectionist bans.
📰 News Apple overtook Nvidia as the world's most valuable company as investors fled chip stocks over circular financing concerns and mounting AI capex costs.
📰 News Claude's share feature left user conversations discoverable in Google search results, exposing personal and corporate information.
📰 News 280 megawatts. About 6% of NZ's entire grid. $24 of GDP per MWh compared to Tiwai's $105. A gentailer that generates, retails, and owns a chunk of the consumer. Three questions need answers before the final investment decision.
📰 News HSBC will hire over 100 AI specialists in Singapore and open a global AI center in the city-state later this year. The British bank is betting that Asia's talent pool and regulatory environment make it the right base for AI-driven finance.
📰 News Nvidia committed $5 billion to Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Inc., granting access to next-generation Vera Rubin systems. The deal signals Nvidia wants to own the compute layer of every frontier lab, not just sell chips.
📰 News An Nvidia employee is now in custody in Taiwan, the first known instance of authorities taking legal action against the chipmaker's own staff in the AI chip smuggling probe.
📰 News One in five people get health information from social media. AI deepfake doctors are filling the gap with miracle cures that do not exist.
📰 News Anthropic's Project Panama shredded millions of books. ISBNdb now brokers orders of up to a million books with NDAs. A judge said destroying the original is 'transformative.' But what happens when three AI companies each buy one of three surviving copies of a rare work?
📰 News Chile supplies a third of the world's copper. A deadly storm just showed how thin the margin is between the metal AI needs and the weather that increasingly threatens it.
📰 News ChangXin Memory Technologies leaped past every other mainland-listed company on its first day of trading, a market verdict on China's push for semiconductor self-sufficiency.