Downloads have fallen from 20m in January to 8.3m in April, paid conversion is a fifth of ChatGPT’s, the $0.42-per-agency GSA deal is now stalled, and SpaceX has rented out the Memphis Colossus 1 cluster to Anthropic for $1.25bn a month. SpaceX’s S-1 filed on Tuesday rests on an AI-revenue line Grok is no longer […]

The investigation is the island’s first formal semiconductor-smuggling crackdown and ties back to the wider Supermicro-linked diversion network that has been routing Nvidia Hopper systems into Chinese customers through Hong Kong and third-country relays. Taiwanese prosecutors are seeking the detention of three individuals over the alleged use of forged documents to export high-end Nvidia AI […]

EXIM has more than $100bn of unused statutory lending capacity that the White House wants channelled into US-built, full-stack AI export packages, with the Commerce Department running a public solicitation for industry-led consortia. The Trump administration is moving to underwrite US-made AI exports with billions of dollars of federal export financing, the latest in a […]

The Helsinki-headquartered SAR-satellite operator has originated a 3-year committed RCF led by Citi and Danske Bank, calibrated to back customer-contract guarantees and underwrite continued global expansion after the company doubled in size in 2025. ICEYE, the Helsinki-headquartered synthetic-aperture-radar satellite operator, has originated a €300m three-year committed revolving credit facility, the company said on Thursday. The […]

Leaked transcripts show memory-line staff offered up to 607% bonuses worth $477,000, while logic-chip employees get as little as 50%. The 45,000-person walkout, if it lands, would be the largest in semiconductor-industry history. Samsung Electronics will pay its chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000 for the year, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, as the company […]

The Goldman-backed UK challenger has booked a second consecutive annual decline as it takes additional expected-credit-loss provisions, on top of the FY25 fallout from the BBLS Covid-loan compliance issue and the FCA’s £29m anti-money-laundering fine. Starling Bank’s annual profit fell again in the year to 31 March 2026, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, as the Goldman-backed UK […]

Beijing has ordered the Singapore-via-China agentic AI startup to reverse Meta’s $2bn-plus December acquisition. Manus’s response, on Bloomberg’s reporting, is to raise the capital required to buy itself back out. Manus AI, the Singapore-headquartered agentic-AI start-up at the centre of the Chinese regulatory block on Meta’s $2bn-plus December acquisition, is weighing a fresh capital raise […]

Lisa Su’s Taiwan announcement covers advanced silicon, packaging and manufacturing partnerships for the company’s rack-scale Helios platform, set for deployment in the second half of 2026. AMD announced on Wednesday more than $10bn of investments across Taiwan’s semiconductor ecosystem to expand strategic partnerships and scale advanced packaging manufacturing for next-generation AI infrastructure. The commitment covers a multi-year […]

The MCMC’s first formal Section 39 enforcement under the Online Safety Act 2025 lands on TikTok, with a maximum financial penalty of RM10 million in play if the platform fails to deliver an enforceable moderation plan. Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Commission has issued a formal statutory demand to TikTok over what regulators describe as a […]

The ban on the China-only Blackwell card landed during the Trump delegation’s state visit, on which the Nvidia CEO was a late addition. Chinese AI buyers had been using the 5090D V2 as a workaround for the H200 procurement vacuum. China stopped granting import permits for Nvidia’s RTX 5090D V2 gaming card on 15 May, […]