Where technology runs into government. Industrial strategy, subsidies, the chip and AI rules, and the slow machinery that decides which sectors a country actually bets on. I cover it because the policy usually shapes the tech long before the market gets a vote.
314 MEPs voted to reject, 276 to keep it, and the rejection lost on a threshold. What the CSAR actually proposes, why nobody separates…
The EU's Industrial Accelerator Act mandates that by January 2029, various products, including buildings and vehicles, must contain a certain percentage of Union-origin materials.…
CME Group is launching two futures contracts on October 5 that will allow trading of Nvidia GPU rental prices, reflecting their high demand in…
Mistral Large 3 shares DeepSeek V3's attention stack down to the compression ranks, and since 11 August Mistral serves Z.ai's GLM-5.2 unmodified on its…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has prioritized quantum computing by banning new hyperscale data centers while launching a $60 million funding initiative for Regional…
Amber Enterprises will assemble Oppo, OnePlus and Realme phones in a plant Oppo already paid for, for under fifty crore rupees. The tax cases,…
Ryanair has struck a five-year deal with Google Cloud and its suite of tools to support its workforce of 35,000 employees, aiming to double…
The underdeveloped U.S. Steel South Works site is set to host America's first utility-scale quantum computer by PsiQuantum, amid community skepticism stemming from past…
The U.S. State Department's recent letter urges 35 countries to choose sides in the AI competition between Washington and Beijing, highlighting concerns over Kazakhstan's…
Chicago's new executive order on data centers lacks a clear definition of what constitutes a data center, complicating regulatory measures. Mayor Brandon Johnson faces…
AI regulation enforcement arrived on three continents in one week: the EU AI Act's transparency layer went live, China issued its first companion-AI fines,…
OpenAI paused internal work on its Astra model due to concerns it might enable autonomous cyberattacks, highlighting safety issues in AI development. Meanwhile, Meta's…
Apple is testing DRAM chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, a Chinese supplier flagged by the Trump administration for military ties, amid a global memory…
The Firebird AI factory needs 300 megawatts in a country whose grid peaks near 1,300 and leans on an aging Russian-fuelled reactor and Russian…
Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) is crucial for achieving sub-nanometer flatness in semiconductor manufacturing. Hwatsing Technology integrates metrology in its new tool to enhance efficiency…
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