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Anthropic’s most controversial product has spent its first three weeks moving between state actors who cannot agree on whether it is theirs to use, theirs to block, or someone else’s problem entirely. On Wednesday morning, an unnamed Trump administration official told the Wall Street Journal that the White House opposed Anthropic’s plan to expand access […]

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Greg Brockman’s comments at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2026 conference fit a pattern of AI lab leaders citing self-reinforcing productivity numbers, but the underlying evidence on AI coding productivity remains substantially more contested than the headline figure suggests. OpenAI president Greg Brockman said AI is now writing roughly 80% of the company’s code at Sequoia Capital’s […]

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Artificial intelligence has already embedded itself into the rhythms of modern life, shaping decisions in ways that often go unnoticed. Amy Trahey, founder of Great Lakes Engineering Group, believes that integration is exactly what makes it powerful and, in many cases, risky. From her perspective in engineering, she sees AI as something that directly influences […]

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The tense day three of Musk v. Altman saw OpenAI’s lead attorney William Savitt use Musk’s own emails, pledge shortfalls, and Shivon Zilis texts to argue the lawsuit is a competitive grievance dressed as a charitable principle. Elon Musk called himself “a fool” for funding OpenAI, accused its leadership of “looting the nonprofit,” and clashed […]

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The world’s largest EV battery maker priced its Hong Kong listing at HK$263 in May 2025. Its shares touched HK$701 before the placement was announced. The deal builds on a week of shareholder activity: a Sinopec unit sold $770M of CATL stock at HK$708 on 22 April; a Shenzhen block trade of 58 million A-shares […]

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Iran’s strike on SABIC’s Jubail petrochemical complex in early April halted production of the resin used to make PCB laminates. Goldman Sachs analysts say prices surged 40% in April alone. A South Korean supplier to Samsung and AMD says epoxy resin wait times have stretched from three weeks to fifteen. The Iran war that began […]

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Jury selection begins Monday in Oakland federal court for the trial that will determine whether OpenAI’s conversion from a nonprofit to one of the most valuable companies in the world was a breach of charitable trust. Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and donated at least $38 million to it, is suing Sam Altman, […]

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The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowledge, and falls “marginally short” of GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1-Pro, a gap DeepSeek says is “approximately 3 to 6 months.” Both models are open-source. […]

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The $25B programme has no expiration date and sits on top of a December 2024 authorisation that still had $6.8B remaining. Netflix’s board approved it on 22 April. Shares rose 1.5% in premarket trading on the news, after falling as much as 10.8% following the Q1 report on 16 April. Netflix’s board authorised an additional […]

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Sources tell Reuters that Bain is looking to sell a stake in BDC, Singapore-headquartered, with nine data centres across Malaysia, Thailand, and India, at a $5 billion valuation. Citi and JPMorgan are running the process. ByteDance is the anchor tenant. No deal has been agreed and talks are preliminary. Bain Capital is seeking a buyer […]