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The U.S. AI governance picture is fracturing in real time

The U.S. AI governance picture is fracturing in real time, China is quietly dismantling the logic of export controls, and the financial architecture behind the AI build-out is showing its first serious cracks.

The biggest pre-IPO raise in tech history

The biggest pre-IPO raise in tech history, a software tool that could crack Nvidia's most durable moat, and two of America's most powerful chip executives just joined the advisory board of China's most politically connected university.

OpenAI in front of a parliament. A training pause that says the quiet part out loud. AMD bets eight billion dollars on the physical world. Anthropic's IPO numbers land and they are not pretty

OpenAI in front of a parliament. A training pause that says the quiet part out loud. AMD bets eight billion dollars on the physical world. Anthropic's IPO numbers land and they are not pretty. And Nvidia does something with its cash that no company has ever done before.

Australia in genuine AI crisis mode

Australia in genuine AI crisis mode, China quietly renegotiating the chip war, and the economics of the AI build-out starting to crack at the edges.

A $3.36 billion infrastructure bet

A $3.36 billion infrastructure bet, a regulatory climate that's bleeding Europe dry, and a nine-year gap in Chinese GPU performance that tells you everything about where the hardware race actually stands.

An AI governance crisis lands in two countries at once

An AI governance crisis lands in two countries at once, the global talent race takes a turn Washington wasn't expecting, and a physics problem that might change what we think AI can actually do.

The week AI governance stopped being theoretical

The week AI governance stopped being theoretical, infrastructure finance shows its first real cracks, and we look at what happens when a platform war meets a zero-day exploit.

Thursday, September 24

The governance vacuum around Trump's "AI Force," the price war eating enterprise software budgets alive

The governance vacuum around Trump's "AI Force," the price war eating enterprise software budgets alive, Alibaba's sovereign chip-plus-data-centre play, what those sandbox escapes actually mean, and the cloud computing restrictions that could reshape the entire global AI industry.

Frontier AI economics hit a reckoning

Frontier AI economics hit a reckoning, US-China talks put AI on the diplomatic agenda, and payments giants make a bet they can't afford to lose.