SK Hynix is about $50bn away from being a trillion-dollar company
SK Hynix is about $50bn away from being a trillion-dollar company

Two AI memory rallies, one country, and a market cap chart that has gone up 9x in two years. If SK Hynix crosses the threshold, South Korea becomes the first country outside the US to host two trillion-dollar companies at the same time. SK Hynix is rou…

This memory chip works at 700 degrees Celsius. The startup behind it is already building AI chips that compute where GPUs cannot.
This memory chip works at 700 degrees Celsius. The startup behind it is already building AI chips that compute where GPUs cannot.

  Every probe humanity has sent to Venus has died. The Soviet Venera landers survived between 23 minutes and two hours on a surface where the temperature exceeds 460 degrees Celsius. Their electronics, designed to endure heat that would melt lead, stil…

Microsoft is quietly shopping for an OpenAI replacement
Microsoft is quietly shopping for an OpenAI replacement

The company that put $13bn into OpenAI now wants the option not to need it. Cursor was the first try and fell apart over GitHub Copilot; talks with Stanford diffusion-LLM startup Inception are alive, and the broader strategy belongs to Mustafa Suleyman…

US clears H200 sales to 10 Chinese firms, but not a single chip has shipped
US clears H200 sales to 10 Chinese firms, but not a single chip has shipped

Washington has approved Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, JD.com, and six others to buy Nvidia’s H200, with each licence good for up to 75,000 units. Beijing has told its tech sector to wait, and Jensen Huang has now been added to Trump’s Beijing trip to tr…

Software engineering’s bottleneck is no longer code
Software engineering’s bottleneck is no longer code

For most of the history of software, planning was sacred. You had to plan before anyone touched a keyboard, because the cost of building the wrong thing could be so punishing, especially for startups, that getting it right upfront was the only rational…

Amazon puts Alexa inside the search bar as agentic commerce heats up
Amazon puts Alexa inside the search bar as agentic commerce heats up

The unified Alexa for Shopping assistant absorbs Rufus and arrives in the main search flow as Amazon sues to keep external AI agents like Perplexity’s Comet off its marketplace. Amazon is moving its AI shopping assistant into the main search bar. Start…

LinkedIn becomes the latest name on a 100,000-job tech layoff list
LinkedIn becomes the latest name on a 100,000-job tech layoff list

Microsoft’s professional network becomes the latest name on a list that now includes Meta, Amazon, Oracle, and IBM, even as the same companies are guiding $725 billion of AI capital spending this year. LinkedIn is cutting roughly 5% of its staff, the l…

Anduril raises $5bn at $61bn valuation, doubling in eleven months
Anduril raises $5bn at $61bn valuation, doubling in eleven months

Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz led the round on the back of $2bn+ in 2025 revenue and a $20bn Pentagon enterprise agreement signed in March. Anduril Industries has raised $5 billion in a round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, doub…

China sharpens criticism of US chip-equipment bill as Trump arrives in Beijing
China sharpens criticism of US chip-equipment bill as Trump arrives in Beijing

Beijing’s foreign ministry hit the MATCH Act on the eve of the Xi summit, with a 150-day alignment deadline for Japan and the Netherlands at the heart of the legislation Beijing has sharpened its criticism of US legislation that would tighten controls …

Corti opens its clinical-AI stack to startups as Europe’s regulatory bill rises
Corti opens its clinical-AI stack to startups as Europe’s regulatory bill rises

The Copenhagen company says its Symphony model has outscored OpenAI on HealthBench Professional, and is offering credits and regulatory help to founders building healthcare AI worldwide. Corti, the Copenhagen-based clinical AI company, has launched a n…