Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California
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Executives from BYD, CATL and Xiaomi may join Xi’s Washington visit, Reuters reports
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Andrew Ng calls the AI extinction warnings science fiction
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Nvidia’s Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year
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INVESTORS AND FUNDING
Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers
Angle Health sells health plans to American firms with as few as two staff, and says it renews them at 5% to 7% when the market is running at 18%. London's Vitruvian Partners led the round. Two thirds of the $600m is a secondary that priced below the headline valuation.
INVESTORS AND FUNDING
Revolut plans a dual London and Nasdaq listing, Storonsky tells Les Echos
Nik Storonsky has pointed to a London listing for the first time, after two years of saying the city could not compete with New York. Revolut was valued at $115bn in July. A partial London float would hand the exchange its biggest win since Wise moved its primary listing to Nasdaq.
DEEP TECH
Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it
AI campuses swing their power draw hard enough to knock a grid about. At Huawei Connect 2026 the company launched a data centre that pushes back, with a megawatt-class UPS in one cabinet, grid-forming storage and cooling that answers to the compute. The metric it wants is tokens per watt.
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Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO
Disney's letter said the chatbots impersonating its characters were in some cases sexually exploitive and dangerous to children, and Brussels proposed switching chatbots off by default for minors this week