China blocks NVIDIA’s RTX 5090D V2 imports while Jensen Huang was in Beijing
China blocks NVIDIA’s RTX 5090D V2 imports while Jensen Huang was in Beijing

The ban on the China-only Blackwell card landed during the Trump delegation’s state visit, on which the Nvidia CEO was a late addition. Chinese AI buyers had been using the 5090D V2 as a workaround for the H200 procurement vacuum. China stopped grantin…

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are not ready to brief American voters
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are not ready to brief American voters

A new generation of voters will ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok how to vote, where the polling station is, and who is telling the truth. The published research is consistent: the models cannot reliably answer those questions. The election will ar…

How one startup turned backers into believers: MAGFAST broke the crowdfunding mold
How one startup turned backers into believers: MAGFAST broke the crowdfunding mold

Picture Kevin. It’s 2014, and on Kickstarter he has just backed the Coolest Cooler, a portable cooler with a built-in blender, a Bluetooth speaker, and a USB charger. Finally, an innovative product that lets him host the perfect beach party. To Kevin, …

Meta starts the 10% cut, with the Singapore office getting the 4 am note first
Meta starts the 10% cut, with the Singapore office getting the 4 am note first

Meta Platforms began notifying thousands of employees on Wednesday that they are being laid off, Bloomberg reported, starting with the Asian hub in Singapore, where staff received the email at 4 am local time. European and US-based employees were notif…

Berlin’s Dunia Innovations commits €280M to an autonomous AI-materials GigaLab
Berlin’s Dunia Innovations commits €280M to an autonomous AI-materials GigaLab

The 6,000-square-metre autonomous R&D facility, backed by Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS and ILS, is positioned as Europe’s answer to the materials-verification bottleneck that AI-led design has opened up. Dunia Innovations, the Berlin-based de…

Meta offers rival AI chatbots a limited free pass into WhatsApp, on Brussels’ terms
Meta offers rival AI chatbots a limited free pass into WhatsApp, on Brussels’ terms

After January’s blanket ban and March’s $0.0625-per-message fee, Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal: free WhatsApp access for OpenAI, Perplexity, and others, up to a usage cap, then a fee. Meta has filed a fresh European Commission pro…

Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market
Gen Z is not booing AI. It is booing its own job market

Eric Schmidt stood at a lectern at the University of Arizona’s spring commencement and told a stadium full of graduates that the impact of artificial intelligence would be ‘larger, faster, and more consequential’ than anything they had so far lived thr…

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to supercharge Claude’s pre-training with AI

Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant talent coup for the Claude maker as it races to stay at th…

$20bn Kimi developer Moonshot abandons VIE structure for HK listing
$20bn Kimi developer Moonshot abandons VIE structure for HK listing

The $20bn Kimi developer has informed shareholders it will dismantle its variable-interest-entity structure, after Beijing made it clear an exemption was unlikely. The IPO would be one of the biggest Chinese AI listings on record. Moonshot AI, the Beij…

Nintendo jumps 6.8% as Japanese investors rotate out of AI
Nintendo jumps 6.8% as Japanese investors rotate out of AI

Nintendo jumped as much as 6.8% on Tuesday for its longest winning streak since mid-March. Bandai Namco and Konami each gained more than 9%. The trade is about what isn’t AI as much as what is. Nintendo’s stock climbed as much as 6.8% in Tokyo on Tuesd…