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On March 5, China’s National People’s Congress passed the 15th Five-Year Plan and for the first time in five-year plan history, AI got its own dedicated planning chapter. The word “smart economy” appears as a formal structural goal. In other words, Beijing is done signaling intent, it is now committing resources. To understand why, consider the economic reality. China’s workforce is shrinking. Its real estate sector has collapsed as a growth engine. On top of that, export pressure from sustained US tariffs has intensified. As a result, AI is not a prestige project here, It is a practical answer to…
Foxconn just closed 2025 with its best quarter on record, and the numbers make one thing clear, the AI bubble is nowhere near bursting. In fact, the company posted $83 billion in Q4 revenue, a 22% year-on-year surge that topped analyst expectations of $77 billion. On top of that, full-year revenue hit a record of $8.09 trillion, with December alone setting the highest monthly revenue in company history. Taken together, these are not coincidental figures from a company sitting at the physical center of the AI economy. How AI Servers Took Over Foxconn’s Revenue For decades, Foxconn built its identity…
AI chips have become a strategic resource in 2026 and whoever controls their flow controls a critical switch to global power. Washington is currently considering rules that would require foreign governments to commit to investing in U.S. AI data centers or provide security assurances in order to secure exports of 200,000 chips or more. In other words, the U.S. is no longer just restricting chip exports to enemies. It is now using security pledges and investment conditions to shape how allies build their AI futures. How We Got Here It all started in October 2022, when the U.S. enacted a…
German robotics startup Neura Robotics is raising approximately €1 billion in a new funding round, with stablecoin giant Tether leading the investment. The funding round made the Metzingen-based company hit a €4B valuation, making it one of Europe’s most valuable robotics companies overnight. Furthermore, sources say the deal could be followed by additional fundraising rounds, signaling that Neura is just getting started. Meet the Company Behind Neura Robotics David Reger founded Neura Robotics in 2019 with one clear goal: build cognitive robot machines that can see, hear, and sense their surroundings while learning from experience. Today, the company sells a…
On Thursday, February 26 2026, OpenAI claimed to have the same limits as Anthropicon defense AI; no autonomous weapons, no domestic surveillance, no exceptions. But by Friday evening, OpenAI had signed a classified Pentagon contract. Meanwhile, Anthropic walked away from the same deal. Public backlash hit fast. Employees learned about the deal from external outlets, not their CEO. Many users flooded the app store with one-star reviews and also appeared outside the OpenAI headquarters in San Francisco: “Where are your red lines?”. Within days, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman openly admitted that the deal had been rushed. “We were genuinely trying…
Apple recently gave its most popular MacBook model the biggest AI upgrade in history. The new MacBook Air M5 promises 4x faster AI performance over the M4 and 9.5x faster than the M1. This is all pretty impressive by today’s standards but it also begs the question; does a speed boost in a fanless laptop finally close the gap with the pro? Or is Apple just selling a number? What’s New in the MacBook M5 Air First, let’s find out what these upgrades are. The MacBook Air M5 ships with a 10-core CPU, a next-gen GPU with a Neural Accelerator…
Coinbase and the broader crypto industry are rethinking their security foundations because of Quantum computing. Bitcoin, Ethereum and most major blockchain networks rely on encryption that classical computers cannot crack but a new breed of computers threatens to change that. As a result, Coinbase already formed an advisory board, the Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is already calling for major upgrades and governments are racing to normalise new cryptography standards. Quantum computing is a new generation of technology that uses the principles of quantum mechanics to process information at extraordinary speeds. Unlike classical computers, which process data in binary bits, quantum…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly refused Pentagon demands this week to strip the company’s AI safeguards, declaring that threats from the Defense Department would not change his position. At the center of the dispute sits a $200 million contract between Anthropic and the Pentagon. The Pentagon wants Anthropic to lift its restrictions so the military can use Claude for “all lawful use” with no limits. However, Anthropic holds firm on two concerns it refuses to drop: AI-controlled weapons and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens. Pentagon Issues a Friday Deadline On February 24, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Amodei a…
Stacks, a London-based enterprise software company, has raised $23 million in Series A funding to build an agentic AI platform that automates finance operations for large businesses. Lightspeed led the round, with General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, and S16VC also participating. The raise comes less than a year after the company closed a $12 million seed round, signaling strong and consistent momentum. Founded by people with backgrounds at Uber and Plaid, Stacks builds automation tools for enterprise finance teams. Today, most of these teams spend the bulk of their time moving data between ERPs, spreadsheets, and accounting platforms rather than making…
Last week, Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude, was involved in a very public dispute with the U.S Pentagon for refusing to remove the AI’s safety guardrails to give the U.S military unrestricted access to use Claude to carry out large-scale domestic surveillance and create fully autonomous weapon systems. As a result, President Trump tagged the company “left-wing lunatics” and subsequently ordered all federal agencies to boycott Claude. The defence department also labelled Claude a national risk and millions of users got locked out. When Claude Went Dark On the 2nd of March 2026, millions of users tried to…