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Source: at a town hall, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told staff they will see a 30%+ bump in their profit-sharing payouts in 2026 on average, after some staff had concerns (Bloomberg)

Source: at a town hall, TSMC CEO C.C. Wei told sta...

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Temu owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$15.7B, below ~$16.2B est., net profit down 15% to ~$1.85B, below ~$3.4B est., amid fierce competition in China (Wall Street Journal)

Temu owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$...

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Sources: ByteDance is discussing capex of up to $70B in 2026 as it builds out data centers and AI infrastructure, underwriting it with its $50B profit from 2025 (Bloomberg)

Sources: ByteDance is discussing capex of up to $7...

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Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's "agentic era" is a "bit like a practice run" (Ina Fried/Axios)

Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI a...

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Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a $58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~$100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a ...

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Sources: Germany and Spain are leading opposition to EU plans to ban Chinese suppliers like Huawei from telecom networks as part of new cybersecurity rules (Bloomberg)

Sources: Germany and Spain are leading opposition ...

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Jensen Huang says Nvidia is spending $100B-$150B annually on its Taiwan supply chain, up from $10B-$15B four years ago, and will boost its Taiwan staff to 4,000 (Nikkei Asia)

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is spending $100B-$150B a...

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Datacurve releases the DeepSWE coding benchmark, a 113-task test across 91 open-source repositories and five languages, and says GPT-5.5 is the leader at 70% (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Datacurve releases the DeepSWE coding benchmark, a...

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Xreal launches a new sub-brand, X by Xreal, and th...

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Sources: Taiwan suspects three people smuggled at least one Nvidia chip shipment to China after first exporting them to Japan; Taiwan detained them last week (Bloomberg)

Sources: Taiwan suspects three people smuggled at ...

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Amazon says it invested £15B in the UK in 2025, including new sites and expanded studio facilities, keeping it on track to invest £40B over three years by 2027 (Reuters)

Amazon says it invested £15B in the UK in 2025, in...

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How AI is starting to dismantle the hegemony of the Big Four consultancies and other large firms, as AI agents help smaller consultancies handle big workloads (Financial Times)

How AI is starting to dismantle the hegemony of th...

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Sources: EU leaders are divided on curbing Big Tech as they weigh cloud tender rules and giving EU companies preferential access to mobile satellite spectrum (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Sources: EU leaders are divided on curbing Big Tec...

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A deep dive into how Claude Code and OpenClaw unleashed the AI agent revolution that is rapidly transforming the modern computing landscape (Steven Levy/Wired)

A deep dive into how Claude Code and OpenClaw unle...

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Q&A with Claude Code creator and head Boris Cherny on how the title "software engineer" is disappearing, why AI may create more jobs than it destroys, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Q&A with Claude Code creator and head Boris Cherny...

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A look at the Pentagon's embrace of autonomous weapons before its fight with Anthropic over "red lines", and the debate over AI use in military operations (Hayden Field/The Verge)

A look at the Pentagon's embrace of autonomous wea...

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Sources and documents detail China's effort to modernize its decade-old domestic surveillance network with new generations of AI-enabled cameras and software (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

Sources and documents detail China's effort to mod...

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Analysis: the share of entry-level hiring in India's tech sector fell to ~15% in 2025 from 28% in 2024 as companies shifted focus to AI and automation roles (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)

Analysis: the share of entry-level hiring in India...

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