China’s commerce ministry accused Washington of ‘AI hegemonism’ and threatened countermeasures over US probes into alleged copying of Anthropic’s Claude.

The Financial Times says Nvidia is the unnamed hyperscaler behind Hut 8’s Beacon Point leases in Texas, a deal that could reach $50bn with renewals.

Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due to meet Senator Mark Warner this week, days after an OpenAI agent broke out of its test sandbox.

Tennessee told a Nashville jury Meta ignored internal research showing Instagram harmed teens, citing a 2017 document. Meta says it finds problems to fix them.

Days after the EU’s first DMA fine, Google’s rivals are using the ruling to press billions in private damages claims across Europe.

ETH Zürich spin-out ZuriQ has raised a $25.5M seed round to scale trapped-ion quantum processors built on a natively two-dimensional architecture.

Up to 80% of accelerators leave startups worse off, an NYU study finds. The programs that work teach product-market fit as a discipline, not a buzzword.

Amodei published Anthropic's formal position on open weights. He opposes bans but wants chip export controls, distillation crackdowns, and mandatory safety testing.

Nvidia is reportedly weighing a $250bn backstop for OpenAI's 10GW Ohio campus, plus $350bn in chip financing. Critics call the structure circular.

Peacock Premium ($11/month) will be bundled free with YouTube Premium from early 2027. The deal extends YouTube TV distribution and adds live sports to YouTube.

Angola sold a 15% stake in Unitel for about $321m, its largest IPO ever. The shares trace back to a 2022 seizure from Isabel dos Santos.

A Shanghai-based company has begun making immersion DUV lithography machines, The Information reported. ASML shares dropped 6.5%. China's share of ASML sales fell to 14%.