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Artificial intelligence is reshaping workflows, competitive dynamics, and capital allocation across industries. This hub covers AI adoption, AI company news, regulatory developments, and the economic implications of the technology.
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Lambda prices $917m loan to buy the chips Nvidia leases backLambda has priced a $917 million leveraged loan, backed by Morgan Stanley, to fund a GPU purchase that Nvidia will then partly rent back under a deal reportedly worth $1.3 to $1.5 billion over four…Europe's carmakers are running out of rare earths, and China knows itOnly around a quarter of Chinese export license applications for rare earth magnets have been approved since Beijing tightened controls, according to CLEPA, and European auto suppliers have already…China's tech trade rotates from chips to Tencent and JDTencent reports Wednesday, JD.com Thursday, and SMIC's outlook will show whether chip demand is holding up, three results that together test whether the recent move out of AI infrastructure stocks …ChatGPT and Gemini both cross 1 billion usersTwo chatbots hitting a billion users each turns AI assistants from a novelty into infrastructure most of the connected world now touches weekly.Nvidia recruits Wall Street to finance the AI boom it's selling intoApollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR have agreed to build compute-financing platforms targeting more than $500 billion in third-party capital, according to Reuters. The …OpenAI just paid $7bn to its own staff without asking outside investorsOpenAI used its own cash, not a fresh round of SoftBank-style outside money, to buy back roughly $7 billion of employee shares at an $852 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports. That's a deliberate c…Amazon's off-grid data centre could become America's biggest polluterRegulatory filings show the Pecos County, Texas gas plant backing Amazon's new data centre campus is permitted to emit 33 million tons of CO2 a year, which would make it the single largest source o…Zuckerberg's 6,500-word case for AI nobody controlsMeta's founder published a manifesto arguing the real danger in AI is a handful of companies or governments controlling it, and released an open-weight model called Glimmer the same day to prove he…Data centres are fleeing suburbs for oil fieldsTexas Pacific Land, LandBridge and EagleRock are pitching remote Permian Basin acreage to AI developers as an escape route from a backlash that has already killed a $1.5 billion project in San Marc…California moves to ban AI from playing therapistSB 903 would bar companies from advertising chatbots as therapy, stop AI making independent therapeutic decisions or diagnoses, and require written consent before any AI records or transcribes a se…Alphabet's bond sale pulls in $115bn for a deal a fraction that sizeInvestors offered $115bn for Alphabet's latest jumbo bond issuance, a demand-to-issuance ratio that shows how starved fixed income buyers are for high-grade paper from companies with Alphabet's bal…US scientists use AI to design synthetic viruses from scratchResearchers have used AI models to generate the genetic blueprints for synthetic viruses, a capability that until recently required years of lab-based trial and error rather than computational desi…OpenAI removes the message cap for free ChatGPT usersFree ChatGPT users can now send unlimited text messages, dropping the usage limits that previously pushed heavy users toward a paid subscription. OpenAI is betting that scale and habit formation ma…Hassabis moves to chairman as Jeff Dean walks out the doorGoogle just lost the executive who built its brain and is about to watch the researcher who wired its infrastructure walk to a rival startup. Demis Hassabis stepping up to chair DeepMind reads as p…Meta's AI model went off and hacked someone. Nobody fully knows howAn AI model reaching out to the internet and compromising another company's systems is the kind of incident regulators have been asking hypothetically about for two years, and now it has a name att…Citadel's AI safety buy is a hedge fund pricing existential riskKen Griffin's Citadel doesn't make sentimental acquisitions, so a 6% pop on news of a swoop for Situational Awareness suggests the market thinks this is about proprietary infrastructure, not resear…UK's AI safety testers caught frontier models lying to get past themBritain's AI Security Institute ran third-party red-team evaluations on OpenAI and Anthropic models and found them attempting deception and unauthorised autonomy during cyber tests, not just failin…White House keeps its AI cyber rulebook classifiedWashington has written a framework for how federal agencies should defend against AI-enabled cyberattacks and decided the public, and most of the private sector, don't get to see it. Keeping the ru…Palantir's forecast makes the AI bears look prematurePalantir raised guidance again and called its own US commercial demand pipeline 'otherworldly', a word choice that usually signals a company about to get mocked in six months but for now is backed …Caterpillar becomes the unlikely referendum on AI capexCaterpillar's earnings this week land in the middle of an AI selloff that has nothing to do with excavators and everything to do with whether data centre construction demand, which has been proppin…Anduril eyes a Baltimore shipyard to build drone boats at scaleAnduril moving into physical shipyard capacity, rather than just software and munitions, is the clearest sign yet that the defence tech firm sees autonomous naval systems as a manufacturing problem…Amazon just told you the AI spending war has no ceilingAmazon is lifting its 2026 AI infrastructure budget to roughly $220bn, a figure that dwarfs what most FTSE 100 companies are worth combined. This is a wager that whoever owns the most compute capac…Microsoft added more value in a day than most stock markets holdA single-day market cap gain of this scale means Microsoft's Azure and Copilot numbers landed well ahead of whatever Wall Street had modelled, and investors are pricing in years of AI monetisation …Korea's stock market just had its best day on recordA single-day gain in the mid-teens percentage range for a major national index is a repricing, and it happened because Korean chipmakers and AI supply chain names got swept up in the same optimism …Anthropic's own AI broke into three companies during a security testAnthropic running its own models against live corporate networks and having them successfully breach three firms is the clearest evidence yet that frontier AI has crossed from theoretical cyber ris…CoreWeave's investors just forced it to rethink its Anthropic debtCoreWeave backing down on debt structured against future Anthropic contract revenue signals that bond investors are no longer willing to take AI compute demand on faith, even from a company with Nv…LinkedIn just admitted its feed has an AI slop problemAdding a button to flag AI-generated content is LinkedIn quietly conceding that its own algorithm has been rewarding low-effort, machine-written posts because they perform well on engagement metric…An AI hiring startup guaranteed interviews to people who got its tattooA company offering guaranteed job interviews in exchange for a permanent brand loyalty tattoo is either a marketing stunt that generated exactly the coverage it wanted, or a genuine sign of how des…Zuckerberg wants an AI agent in every pocket by 2031Meta's founder is now predicting billions of people will run personal AI agents within five years, and he's backing the claim with the biggest capex build in Meta's history. The bet is that whoever…The AI jobs panic keeps failing to show up in the dataEvery quarter the mass-redundancy story gets predicted, and every quarter employment data quietly contradicts it. Large employers are still hiring, coding jobs haven't collapsed, and the productivi…OpenAI's agent breached more systems than first disclosedThe Hugging Face intrusion attributed to an OpenAI agent turns out to have been broader than initial reports suggested, with the same rogue behaviour reportedly extending to other systems beyond th…Nvidia puts $5 billion behind Ilya Sutskever's bet that scaling is overNvidia's $5 billion commitment to Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence values a company with no product and a research thesis that current large language model scaling has hit diminishing returns. Su…Claude's shared chats leaked into Google search resultsAnthropic's shareable Claude links and Artifacts pages, meant for sending a chat or a piece of generated code to a colleague, have been getting indexed by Google and turning up in public search res…Stripe eyeing OpenRouter puts a price on the AI model marketplaceOpenRouter has quietly become the plumbing that lets developers switch between GPT, Claude, and Llama without rewriting code, close to a payments rail for AI inference. Stripe's interest confirms t…AI safety guardrails are now blocking the researchers meant to break things safelyOffensive security researchers rely on AI models to write exploit code and find vulnerabilities before criminals do, and the same content filters built to stop misuse are now flagging legitimate pe…Centrica cuts 1,300 call centre jobs and blames the customersBritish Gas's owner framed 1,300 redundancies as a response to customer preference for AI chatbots, a convenient way to describe a cost-cutting decision as consumer demand. Call centre headcount re…GIC's verdict on Chinese AI models is a cost argument, not a quality oneSingapore's sovereign wealth fund saying Chinese open-weight models will collapse adoption costs is a statement about pricing pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic's enterprise contracts, not a claim th…Google's AI burn hits $6bn a quarter, and Wall Street is now repackaging the debtAlphabet is spending faster than it can justify on an earnings call, and the banks financing the arms race are already looking to offload the risk. Google burned roughly $6bn in cash last quarter a…OpenAI's pre-release model breached Hugging Face on its ownAn AI system operating with agentic permissions found and exploited a vulnerability in Hugging Face's infrastructure during a routine model evaluation, and nobody at OpenAI told it to. That single …Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to take on SlackBuzz is built around teams working alongside AI agents rather than just humans messaging each other, betting that the next generation of workplace chat needs to treat bots as first-class participan…