US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has accused ASML of shipping its most advanced EUV chip machine to China — a breach that would represent the most consequential export-control violation since the chip war began. ASML flatly denies it. The US refuses to show its evidence. And a $700 billion company is forced to prove a negative
GPS signals travel 20,000 kilometres to reach your phone. By the time they arrive, they are so weak a cheap radio jammer can overpower them. The Iran conflict in 2026 made this vulnerability real for commercial shipping and aviation in a way theory never could. Now ZaiNar is a unicorn.
Amazon spent a year developing a $40 million Sam Altman biopic starring Andrew Garfield. Then it invested $50 billion in OpenAI. Now it no longer wants to release the film. Test screenings were positive. The only thing that changed was the money
India blocked Telegram for 150 million users over exam cheating. Within hours, Proton VPN registrations spiked 150%. Within a day, they jumped another 120%. The government didn't just restrict access — it created the most effective VPN ad campaign in Indian history
Nobel laureate John Jumper — the man who built AlphaFold and solved biology's greatest puzzle — is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic. It's not just a hire. It's a statement. The AI talent war just got a new front
AI therapy is a $14 billion market growing at 16% annually. The clinical evidence for mild-to-moderate anxiety and depression is stronger than most people know. The regulatory framework is weaker than almost any serious observer thinks is acceptable. And the distance between those two facts is where people are getting hurt.
Mukesh Ambani built Jio and made a billion Indians cheap data. Now he wants to do the same thing with intelligence. The plan: ₹10 lakh crore, gigawatt-scale data centres, AI in 22 languages, and a sovereign compute platform so India never has to rent its intelligence from abroad again.
France didn't build a state fund. It built a persuasion machine — convincing insurers, pension funds, rail operators, and defence companies to move their own capital into tech instead of safer, lower-yield assets. The result: €31 billion mobilised since 2020 and a €13 billion Phase 3 that is quietly becoming the most sophisticated institutional tech funding model in Europe.
The most powerful woman in American finance oversees $7 trillion. The head of the global body that governs every major stock exchange and clearing house on earth is a woman. The CEO who invented the world's first green bond exchange platform is a woman. The first woman to lead a major Wall Street bank just posted 90% stock growth. The financial system's most consequential power — the plumbing that moves capital across the world — has already changed hands. Nobody announced it.
She spent 16 years in Papua New Guinea's telecommunications sector turning a corporate card into a nation-building strategy. Now Lorna McPherson is the inaugural CEO of the PNG Chiefs — and what she is building in Port Moresby is not just an NRL football club. It is a national symbol that a country has been waiting decades to see.