China extends AI travel curbs from DeepSeek to other private firms
China extends AI travel curbs from DeepSeek to other private firms

Top researchers at private Chinese AI companies are being asked to surrender passports, in a quiet expansion of the controls that began at DeepSeek earlier this year. China is widening its informal travel restrictions on senior AI researchers, extendin…

Spain blocks Polymarket and Kalshi over missing gambling licences
Spain blocks Polymarket and Kalshi over missing gambling licences

A three-to-four month suspension while Madrid’s gambling watchdog investigates makes Spain the latest European jurisdiction to treat prediction markets as unlicensed betting. Spain has temporarily blocked the US-based prediction markets Polymarket and …

Sam Altman says an AI jobs apocalypse is unlikely
Sam Altman says an AI jobs apocalypse is unlikely

The OpenAI chief, speaking in the Asia-Pacific, walked back the more dramatic predictions of broad employment collapse. The data, so far, agrees with him. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday that artificial intelligence was unlikely to tr…

Samsung’s non-chip union goes to court to halt bonus vote
Samsung’s non-chip union goes to court to halt bonus vote

A smaller Samsung Electronics union representing roughly 13,000 workers in the company’s smartphones, televisions and home appliances divisions has filed an injunction at South Korea’s Suwon District Court to halt an ongoing companywide vote on a bonus…

Ferrari unveils the Luce, a five-seat electric car co-designed with Jony Ive
Ferrari unveils the Luce, a five-seat electric car co-designed with Jony Ive

The Maranello firm’s first all-electric model starts at €550,000, runs to more than 1,000 horsepower and arrives with deliveries in the fourth quarter. Ferrari pulled the covers off its first all-electric road car on Monday: the Luce, a four-door, five…

Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google
Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google

The European Commission is preparing to fine Google a sum running into the high hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the Digital Markets Act, according to a Handelsblatt report on Monday, in what would be the largest penalty ever issued under th…

China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one
China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one

Summary: China has launched a national ID system for humanoid robots, assigning each a 29-character code that tracks it from production to recycling. Over 28,000 robots across 200 models already have IDs. The system logs real-time performance data incl…

India’s AI ambitions hinge on turning 200 million workers into 350 million
India’s AI ambitions hinge on turning 200 million workers into 350 million

IBM India’s Sandip Patel says the country can become the world’s AI skill capital by 2030. The arithmetic of getting there is harder than the headline number suggests. ndia has roughly six hundred million workers, and on a recent Bengaluru morning, the…

Why EU business AI adoption is rising and still not catching up
Why EU business AI adoption is rising and still not catching up

Eurostat published  last December a release that, on a different continent, would have been front-page news. They were saying that 20% of European Union enterprises with at least ten employees now used artificial intelligence in some part of their busi…

Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI
Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI

In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By spring, the tool had spread well beyond engineering: int…