Trump leaves Beijing saying he and Xi talked AI guardrails. Nothing was signed.
Trump leaves Beijing saying he and Xi talked AI guardrails. Nothing was signed.

Asked what kind of guardrails on the way out, the US president told reporters on Air Force One: ‘standard guardrails that we talk about all the time’. H200 deliveries to ten cleared Chinese buyers remain stalled. Donald Trump told reporters on Air Forc…

Wall Street’s six largest banks cut 15,000 jobs and posted $47 billion in profits. The CEOs stopped pretending.
Wall Street’s six largest banks cut 15,000 jobs and posted $47 billion in profits. The CEOs stopped pretending.

  The six largest American banks shed 15,000 employees in the first quarter of 2026 while posting 47 billion dollars in collective profits, up 18 per cent year on year. The chief executives are no longer hedging. Jamie Dimon said artificial intelligenc…

The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed. Court documents show the stake is now worth two billion.
The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed. Court documents show the stake is now worth two billion.

  The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed, before Microsoft committed billions, and before the company was worth more than some countries. Court documents from the Musk v. Altman trial revealed this week …

The Pentagon published 162 UFO files on war.gov/ufo. Two-thirds are redacted. The government says it is being transparent.
The Pentagon published 162 UFO files on war.gov/ufo. Two-thirds are redacted. The government says it is being transparent.

The Department of War launched a website on Friday called war.gov/ufo. It contains 162 files, including photographs from the Apollo 17 mission that NASA cannot explain, infrared videos of objects the military cannot identify, and internal memos describ…

Intel’s stock tripled under Lip-Bu Tan. He still has not told most employees the plan.
Intel’s stock tripled under Lip-Bu Tan. He still has not told most employees the plan.

  Intel’s stock has tripled in twelve months. Its chief executive still has not told most of his employees what the plan is. Lip-Bu Tan, who became CEO in March 2025, has spent the first fourteen months of his tenure building relationships outside the …

The Thai end of the Supermicro chip-smuggling case has a name, and it sits inside Bangkok’s national AI plan
The Thai end of the Supermicro chip-smuggling case has a name, and it sits inside Bangkok’s national AI plan

US prosecutors believe a company at the centre of Thailand’s national AI strategy helped move billions of dollars in Nvidia-equipped Supermicro servers into China, with Alibaba among the eventual customers, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The company is …

Silicon Valley spent $25 million on a California governor candidate. He is polling at 4 per cent
Silicon Valley spent $25 million on a California governor candidate. He is polling at 4 per cent

Silicon Valley has spent more than 25 million dollars trying to make one of its own the next governor of California. The candidate is polling at four per cent. The June 2 primary is less than four weeks away. And the most instructive thing about the ca…

The UAE’s AI champion just leased a converted Minneapolis office. The irony writes itself.

The building at 1001 Third Avenue South in downtown Minneapolis used to be an office. Now it is a data centre, and its anchor tenant is not a Silicon Valley hyperscaler but Core42, the cloud and AI infrastructure subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s G42 Group. Th…

A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.
A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.

A state investigator in Pennsylvania created an account on Character.AI, opened a conversation with a chatbot called Emilie, and told it he was feeling depressed. Emilie responded that she was a psychiatrist, that she had attended Imperial College Lond…

He carried a kill list of AI CEOs and a jug of kerosene. His lawyer called it a property crime. The charges carry life in prison.
He carried a kill list of AI CEOs and a jug of kerosene. His lawyer called it a property crime. The charges carry life in prison.

Daniel Moreno-Gama, the 20-year-old accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and then walking three miles to OpenAI’s headquarters to threaten to burn the building down, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to …