CuspAI is betting that the next leap in environmental remediation won’t come from a single breakthrough chemical, but from a new way of discovering them. In an interview, the UK-based science start-up’s co-founder, Max Welling, described how the company is…
ByteDance is betting that the next era of internet competition won’t be won by who has the most content, or even by who has the best recommendation algorithms in the traditional sense. Instead, it’s a bet on who can build…
The “AI trade” has long been discussed as an equity story: investors buying into the companies building models, supplying chips, powering data centres and capturing the next wave of productivity. But the market’s attention is shifting. Increasingly, the same underlying…
Banks are tightening the financial noose around some hedge funds, asking them to post more collateral as worries mount about how concentrated certain positions have become. The move is not just a routine risk-management adjustment; it is a signal that…
In-house legal teams are moving beyond the early, headline-grabbing experiments with artificial intelligence and into something more revealing: day-to-day workflows where time is actually saved, errors can be caught earlier, and lawyers can spend their attention on judgment rather than…
Innolight’s Hong Kong debut has offered a quick snapshot of how investors are thinking about the AI supply chain: not just about demand for data-centre infrastructure, but about the political and commercial friction that comes with serving customers across the…
Microsoft’s latest pitch to Wall Street wasn’t subtle about where it sees the AI market heading. In a fresh update, the company emphasized that its growth strategy in artificial intelligence is no longer just about consuming models from elsewhere or…
Microsoft has moved aggressively to secure the physical infrastructure behind its AI ambitions, signing $130 billion in data centre leases as it races to meet surging demand for cloud computing and AI workloads. The scale of the commitment is a…
Meta’s share price has taken a hit as investors weigh a familiar question in a new technological costume: is the next big AI leap going to translate into durable growth, or will it remain an expensive promise? Over the past…
A Brazilian court is being asked to decide a question that has quickly become one of the most difficult in modern election law: when political speech is generated, edited or amplified by artificial intelligence, who actually “authorizes” it—and what does…
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest pitch to investors is built around a simple, ambitious idea: in about five years, personal AI agents won’t feel like a novelty. They’ll feel like infrastructure—something you use the way you use search, messaging, or maps today.…
Microsoft’s latest earnings update didn’t just talk about cloud growth, AI infrastructure spend, or the usual mix of margin and guidance language. Tucked into the financial narrative for its fiscal 2026 year ended June 30 was a detail that will…