The US Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract on Friday to build satellites that track foreign aircraft and missiles. The programme is called Space-Based Advanced Moving Target Indicator, or SB-AMTI. It is part of the Trump administration’…
Denmark’s AkademikerPension, which manages roughly $25 billion for academic professionals, has said it will not participate in SpaceX’s initial public offering or buy shares in any secondary-market transaction, according to Bloomberg. Chief investment …
Governor Fabio Panetta used the central bank’s annual assembly to pitch AI as a fix for Italy’s chronic productivity problem, and to say the bank is already engaging the firms building it. Central bankers do not usually go out of their way to say which…
The Temu fine, the second-ever DSA penalty after X’s €120M in December, gives the EU’s online-safety regime its first major Chinese-platform enforcement case. The European Commission has fined Temu, the Chinese e-commerce platform owned by PDD Holdings…
China’s $1.1bn AI, robotics and EV package for Serbia lands four days after 34,000 protesters filled the capital demanding early elections. Brussels has yet to develop a coherent response to either. On Saturday, tens of thousands of Serbians filled the…
SAMR has penalised the two electronics firms for procedural violations in their now-collapsed asset sale, the latest signal of Beijing’s tightening merger-enforcement posture. China’s State Administration for Market Regulation has fined Luxshare Precis…
Apple and Google have formally pushed for amendments to Bill C-22, the Canadian government’s lawful-access legislation now working its way through the House of Commons, arguing that the bill as drafted creates a potential for secret orders to compel ch…
The Tech Sovereignty Package arrives on Wednesday, but the EU is still arguing internally over what ‘digital sovereignty’ should actually require. The European Commission is preparing to publish its Tech Sovereignty Package on Wednesday afternoon, the …
The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a …
Elon Musk’s xAI has told employees to limit their contact with staff from Cursor , the AI coding startup that SpaceX has an option to acquire for $60 billion. The directive came from James Burnham, xAI’s general counsel and former chief lawyer at the…