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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)

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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)

Sources: Australia-founded Airwallex, which Keith ...

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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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Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for highly paid professionals (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found pr...

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Surging AI demand has caused shortages and price increases across the entire optical supply chain, from lasers and substrates to optical fibers and connectors (Nikkei Asia)

Surging AI demand has caused shortages and price i...

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Sources: ByteDance is developing its own CPUs to support growing AI infrastructure needs, as chip price hikes and supply shortages constrain expansion plans (Reuters)

Sources: ByteDance is developing its own CPUs to s...

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Record Q1 data center spending of $6.2B, up ~100% QoQ, boosted Australia's investment growth, supporting an economy strained by energy costs and high rates (James Mayger/Bloomberg)

Record Q1 data center spending of $6.2B, up ~100% ...

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Analysis: the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, which tracks 30 largest US-listed chipmakers, is up ~75% YTD and on track for its biggest annual gain since 1999 (Financial Times)

Analysis: the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, wh...

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Global AI hardware demand is easing China's concerns over a stronger yuan hurting exports, as AI hardware exports surge and chip equipment imports rise (Bloomberg)

Global AI hardware demand is easing China's concer...

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Taiwanese tech companies have completed a record $14.5B of debt deals so far this year, as they race to secure financing to meet soaring demand for AI capacity (Aileen Chuang/Bloomberg)

Taiwanese tech companies have completed a record $...

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Companies are using AI at their global capability centers in India to bring more creative work in-house, cutting turnaround times and reliance on ad agencies (Reuters)

Companies are using AI at their global capability ...

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Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety says his company plans to stay out of the spending war as Amazon and Flipkart ramp up their quick commerce efforts across India (Bloomberg)

Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety says his company plans...

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Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals (Financial Times)

Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law...

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Trade Desk's market cap fell ~70% from a December 2024 peak as it contends with frustrated agency partners, competition from Google, and a new entrant, Amazon (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)

Trade Desk's market cap fell ~70% from a December ...

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