Intel’s stock tripled under Lip-Bu Tan. He still has not told most employees the plan.
 Intel’s stock tripled under Lip-Bu Tan. He still has not told most employees the plan.

  Intel’s stock has tripled in twelve months. Its chief executive still has not told most of his employees what the plan is. Lip-Bu Tan, who became CEO in March 2025, has spent the first fourteen months of his tenure building relationships outside the …

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The Thai end of the Supermicro chip-smuggling case has a name, and it sits inside Bangkok’s national AI plan
 The Thai end of the Supermicro chip-smuggling case has a name, and it sits inside Bangkok’s national AI plan

US prosecutors believe a company at the centre of Thailand’s national AI strategy helped move billions of dollars in Nvidia-equipped Supermicro servers into China, with Alibaba among the eventual customers, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The company is …

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Silicon Valley spent $25 million on a California governor candidate. He is polling at 4 per cent
 Silicon Valley spent $25 million on a California governor candidate. He is polling at 4 per cent

Silicon Valley has spent more than 25 million dollars trying to make one of its own the next governor of California. The candidate is polling at four per cent. The June 2 primary is less than four weeks away. And the most instructive thing about the ca…

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The UAE’s AI champion just leased a converted Minneapolis office. The irony writes itself.

The building at 1001 Third Avenue South in downtown Minneapolis used to be an office. Now it is a data centre, and its anchor tenant is not a Silicon Valley hyperscaler but Core42, the cloud and AI infrastructure subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s G42 Group. Th…

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A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.
 A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.

A state investigator in Pennsylvania created an account on Character.AI, opened a conversation with a chatbot called Emilie, and told it he was feeling depressed. Emilie responded that she was a psychiatrist, that she had attended Imperial College Lond…

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He carried a kill list of AI CEOs and a jug of kerosene. His lawyer called it a property crime. The charges carry life in prison.
 He carried a kill list of AI CEOs and a jug of kerosene. His lawyer called it a property crime. The charges carry life in prison.

Daniel Moreno-Gama, the 20-year-old accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and then walking three miles to OpenAI’s headquarters to threaten to burn the building down, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to …

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The next satisfactory standard for data governance may not come from Brussels. It may come from Beijing.
 The next satisfactory standard for data governance may not come from Brussels. It may come from Beijing.

The European Union treats data as a privacy right. The United States treats it as a corporate asset. China treats it as a factor of production, a national economic resource on par with land, labour, capital, and technology. That distinction, which soun…

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The US has banned the world’s best drones. It has not figured out how to make them.
 The US has banned the world’s best drones. It has not figured out how to make them.

Skydio, the largest American drone manufacturer, announced in late April that it would invest $3.5 billion over five years to expand US drone production, open a factory five times larger than its current facility, create more than 2,000 direct jobs and…

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Seven minutes from JFK to Midtown. Joby just flew the route it plans to sell.
 Seven minutes from JFK to Midtown. Joby just flew the route it plans to sell.

The flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan took seven minutes. By car, depending on the time of day, the same journey takes between 60 and 120 minutes. On Friday, Joby Aviation landed its…

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The world’s oldest cord blood bank is building the stem cell platform the field has been missing
 The world’s oldest cord blood bank is building the stem cell platform the field has been missing

Most of the umbilical cord blood collected at birth is discarded. The tissue is clamped, cut, and disposed of as medical waste, along with the stem cells it contains, cells that are immunologically naive, genetically diverse, and capable of being repro…

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