The rulebooks that now shape this industry as much as the engineering does. The AI Act, antitrust, export controls, data law. I track how they actually land on companies rather than the press-release version, because compliance is where a surprising amount of strategy gets decided.
On June 23, the European Parliament's ECON committee approved the digital euro, initiating negotiations ahead of a potential launch by 2029. It aims to…
"Fix this code" triggered the Fable 5 export ban. Security researcher Katie Moussouris, the only external expert to read the Amazon report, says no…
Midjourney's full-body ultrasound scanner promises 60-second scans. The prototype takes 20 minutes and has scanned just 12 people.
SpaceX went public without loosening Musk's grip. The US government picked quantum winners with political ties. AI agents started trading crypto alone. And the…
The US government ordered Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users globally, citing national security. The implications for AI sovereignty,…
Yesterday China’s market regulator and Xiaomi announced an over-the-air recall of 116,887 SU7 Standard sedans, every one built before August 30, to fix a…
Qualcomm reported $959 million in automotive revenue for Q1 2025, marking significant growth. Its Snapdragon X line also gained share in premium laptops. With…
Nvidia and AMD regained export licenses for China, reviving significant revenue potential after prior restrictions. Concurrently, a Senate vote ended a federal AI moratorium,…
Outcome Health, once a celebrated Chicago healthtech startup, was later exposed for fraud, inflating revenue by $1 billion through false advertising sales. Convicted founders…
AT&T's recent $14 billion deal with Ericsson marks a significant commitment to Open RAN, aiming to shift 70% of wireless traffic to open platforms…
Microsoft has completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, transforming the company into the largest games publisher in the West. This shift focuses…
The Activision Blizzard acquisition closed October 13, 2023 after a two-year regulatory war, cloud rights going to Ubisoft, and Bobby Kotick's exit. What changed.
The EU AI Act, negotiated and adopted between 2023 and 2024, establishes a risk-based regulatory framework that affects how AI is developed and deployed…
The saga of France's 5G rollout was characterized by prolonged debates over spectrum auctions and frustation, while neighboring countries advanced. Delays stemmed from political…
The O-RAN Alliance, founded in 2018 by AT&T and China Mobile, has shifted discussions from cost and vendor independence to sovereignty concerns. As governments…
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