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IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new model for open-source software, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers, supported by AI (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)

IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new mode...

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AWS is rolling out Resilient Network Graphs, a "quasi-random" networking architecture that uses a flat mesh design, and says it accelerates information flows (Lauren Goode/Wired)

AWS is rolling out Resilient Network Graphs, a "qu...

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Source: the Shanghai Futures Exchange is in the early stages of designing futures contracts for AI tokens; US exchanges are set to launch GPU compute futures (Reuters)

Source: the Shanghai Futures Exchange is in the ea...

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Samsung's Securities, SDS, and Card units jointly acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange, in a ~$446M all-cash deal (Choi Yeon-jae/The Korea Herald)

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London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security and governance platform for AI agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Balderton at an estimated $180M valuation (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

London-based Geordie AI, which builds a security a...

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The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from $399 in 2022 to $789 today, is the end of an era for gaming handhelds, coming amid RAMageddon, tariffs, and the Iran war (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

The Steam Deck's huge price hike, from $399 in 202...

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As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub in India's Visakhapatnam, locals and rights groups are raising concerns over "extremely high" water stress (Wall Street Journal)

As Google plans to build a $15B AI data center hub...

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The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the DSA for allegedly failing to adequately stop the sale of illegal products; further penalties could follow (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the...

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London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which uses its Orb model to design advanced materials and then sell them directly, raised a $50M Series B led by Plural (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

London- and SF-based Orbital Industries, which use...

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Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows to protect the company's 900,000 employees from AI and automation, saying it will "do everything possible" (Bloomberg)

Internal speech: JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong vows...

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The European Commission launches a full review of JD.com's €2.2B acquisition of German electronics retailer Ceconomy under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation (Bloomberg)

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UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quantum chip, which it says completes a calculation in five minutes that takes supercomputers 10 septillion years (Chris Vallance/BBC)

UK researchers win access to Google's Willow quant...

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Dealroom: London overtakes Paris to reclaim its position as Europe's leading tech hub, and now ranks fourth globally; London startups raised $17.7B in 2025 (Paul Sandle/Reuters)

Dealroom: London overtakes Paris to reclaim its po...

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Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence development to ensure Europe's independence from US tech giants, and signs deals to supply Airbus and BMW (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)

Mistral says it is accelerating superintelligence ...

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Chip design software maker Synopsys reaches a deal with Elliott, giving one board seat to the activist investor's Jesse Cohn, after roughly two months of talks (Svea Herbst-Bayliss/Reuters)

Chip design software maker Synopsys reaches a deal...

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Sources: Australia-founded Airwallex, which Keith Rabois accused of being a "Chinese backdoor", is relocating some staff out of China amid its US expansion (Financial Times)

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As the US AI boom drains venture capital from Africa, startups on the continent are pivoting to domestic funding sources, like pension funds and local VC firms (Rivaldo Jantjies/Bloomberg)

As the US AI boom drains venture capital from Afri...

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Swedish chip optical component maker Sivers, whose stock is up ~1,700% YTD, giving it a ~$2.5B market cap, has become one of the country's most-shorted stocks (Jonas Ekblom/Bloomberg)

Swedish chip optical component maker Sivers, whose...

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