A Verasight survey found 69% of Americans back forcing big AI firms to hand half their stock to a public wealth fund. With tech behind a third of 2026’s layoffs, the real surprise is that it isn’t higher.
The Jane Goodall Institute and FormationQ are running an agent-based model on IonQ’s quantum hardware to explain why chimps wage war and bonobos keep the peace. The uncomfortable answer may be about scarcity.
DeepSeek is reportedly raising $1.5B at a $71B valuation, up from ~$50B six weeks ago, and prepping a China IPO. The fundraising quietly kills the ‘China does AI on a shoestring’ story.
Governor Hochul signed the first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centres. Underneath the environmental language, it is a fight about who pays for the AI buildout: the trillion-dollar tenant, or the household.
TSMC posted its biggest month in history, up 67.9% year on year. The catch: the only factory that matters is sold out through year-end, and only four companies are at the front of the queue.
China just outlawed humanlike AI “companions”. Awkwardly, it is the right call, the one the West has completely failed to make while its own companies quietly farm human loneliness for profit.
IBM had its worst day in nearly 40 years, and took ServiceNow, Workday and Accenture with it. The reason says less about IBM than about a market that has fallen head over heels for one story.
Apple keeps getting off the mat and Brussels keeps knocking it back down. The EU court just dismissed all three of its Digital Markets Act challenges. Meanwhile, its hardware is quietly winning.
Goldman crushed estimates, the big banks are printing money, and it is all being powered by a rocket-company IPO and a war. Reassuring stuff, if you do not know any history.
ZML just gave away a free tool that runs your AI models fast on any chip, not just Nvidia’s. It is a small, well-aimed kick at the CUDA lock-in that keeps the whole industry hostage.