Macron convinced SoftBank to invest €75B in French data centres. Modi secured $48B from Amazon. The AI infrastructure race is being won by personal diplomacy.

London neobank Starling is cutting 3% of its workforce as profits dip for a second year. It is simultaneously hiring AI engineers and expanding its Engine SaaS platform into the US.

Seven in 10 children are still on restricted platforms seven months after Australia's under-16 social media ban. The Senate just blocked amendments to strengthen enforcement.

Hong Kong re-exported $124bn in chips to China in five months, 52% of the mainland's total, as the AI boom turns the city into Asia's key semiconductor hub.

Nansen data shows 988,905 $TRUMP token buyers lost $3.81 billion while Trump earned $636 million in royalties. His 2025 financial disclosure lists $1.4 billion in crypto income.

China's draft e-commerce law amendments add domestic platform oversight and international countermeasures as Temu and Shein face tariffs and fines in the US and EU.

Chinese regulators want cinemas to add AI agents, karaoke booths and coffee shops as ticket sales slump 40% in the first half of 2026.

OpenAI apparently failed to visit a key Stargate UK site before announcing the project. A previous investigation found the supercomputer location was a scaffolding yard.

India's IT ministry has summoned Meta executives after a BBC investigation found Instagram ran paid ads promoting CSAM, linking users to Telegram.

Alex Karp bought a $120M monastery, a $75M Miami compound, and a 500-acre New Hampshire estate. His company sells surveillance tools to governments.

Alibaba listed Anthropic's Claude Code as high-risk software after researchers found steganographic markers that flagged Chinese users by timezone and proxy.

SoftBank has reopened talks for a $10bn loan against its OpenAI stake, offering banks a corporate guarantee after an earlier version stalled.