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As Japanese and Korean giants move upmarket, China’s MLCC firms see their chance

As demand for AI servers soars, leading Japanese and South Korean multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) makers are shifting further upmarket, opening the door for Chinese competitors to gain share in lower-end segments despite lagging their rivals in advanced technology. MLCCs – often referred to as the “rice of the electronics industry” because of their ubiquity – are tiny electronic components that regulate and stabilise electrical currents in devices ranging from smartphones and electric...

The Chinese AI police tech aimed at physical, psychological and emotional states

Chinese AI-enabled equipment can help police assess the physical health, mental state, and even risk level of suspects, according to demonstrations at a law enforcement equipment exhibition in Beijing last week. Chinese firms presenting their latest biometric devices at the international police and anti-terrorism technology expo said they could reduce manpower requirements for a police force and improve efficiency amid a shortage of frontline officers. The three-day exhibit which ended on...

Inside India newsletter: Hollywood is debating AI. India's filmmakers are embracing it

Even as Hollywood remains the world's most influential storyteller, experiments in AI filmmaking are increasingly happening in India.

How Fake News Became the Most Dangerous Force in Energy Markets

We live in a dangerously synthetic world. Scalper-style traders reportedly generated significant profits on suspiciously timed oil trades surrounding Iran war developments in Q2. AI-generated content is creating new verification challenges. Fake news about an attack on Saudi oil facilities, for instance, could contribute to crude price volatility. It’s a dangerous, unsustainable, AI-generated environment that rewards whoever gets information first, whether it’s real or not. Now, it’s time to lev

Canada moves to ban under-16s from social media, regulate AI

Canada’s culture minister on Wednesday introduced legislation that would ban children under 16 from having social media accounts and require AI chatbot services to limit production of harmful content. The proposed Digital Safety Act makes Canada the latest in a wave of countries cracking down on social media platforms over concerns of harm to children. “We have seen the very serious consequences that online harms can have … The safety of children cannot be an afterthought,” said Culture Minister

FBI disables 13 Chinese suspected spying websites targeting US officials

The FBI said on Wednesday that it seized more than a dozen internet domains used by Chinese intelligence services to gain personal information in hopes of fooling, conscripting or blackmailing Americans with security clearances into divulging sensitive information. “The fake consulting company domains seized by the FBI illustrate the lengths the Chinese government’s intelligence services will go to as they try to use AI-generated content to trick, recruit, or coerce current and former US...

Chinese propagandists stoking dissent over Trump tariffs and data centres, OpenAI says

Chinese propagandists have been trying to ⁠use OpenAI’s flagship chatbot ⁠to gin up opposition to Donald Trump’s ⁠tariffs and intervene in American debates over data centres and AI, OpenAI said in a report published on Wednesday. The company said its efforts, dating to late 2025 and early 2026, appeared to have had little or no effect, but it is another indication of ‌how central generative AI is becoming in digital influence campaigns – even those aimed against AI companies themselves. The...

Am I crazy or is copper becoming one of the most obvious AI investments?

Every day I see people arguing about NVIDIA, AMD, OpenAI, etc. But the more I read about AI infrastructure, the more I keep coming back to copper. All these data centers need power. All that power needs transmission lines. All those transmission lines need copper. Meanwhile I keep hearing that new copper discoveries aren't exactly keeping up with future demand. Maybe I'm missing something, but it feels like everyone wants exposure to AI while ignoring the stuff that actually makes AI possible. A

China-UK cooperation vital in ensuring the AI era puts people first

During a recent discussion in Shenzhen with British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, I was reminded that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer only a technological race. It is a test of whether major economies can build the institutions, standards and economic systems needed to integrate intelligent machines into human society. Britain has every reason to enter this new era with confidence. It has contributed to much of the modern world’s foundations. In 1687, Isaac Newton

NTT sets sights on Nvidia, AI race with $500m optical network fund

Oracle’s stock slides after earnings, as the steep price of AI spooks investors

Oracle blew past earnings expectations and grew its contract pipeline to $638 billion, but Wall Street is concerned about its rising AI costs.

TDK to buy US maker of AI data center cooling components for up to $400m

Anthropic plugs Claude AI in Japan for automated software development

Wall Street needs a crash course in the token economy ahead of AI IPOs. SpaceX offers a preview

When OpenAI and Anthropic make their IPO prospectuses available to the public, investors are going to have to learn about a whole new economy.

Humaniod robotics company raises up to $1.4 billion from Nvidia, Amazon and others

Investors have rushed to back companies in the physical AI space

Amazon lines up another $17.5 billion for AI as its debt pile grows further

The tech giant has now raised over $80 billion in external financing this year alone, with no signs of slowing down.

Company that bet big on Trump-backed crypto says its fortunes have improved

AI Financial Corp. says it has mitigated some of the concerns that prompted it to say earlier that it may not be able to stay in business.

Private credit lenders say their big software bet faces an AI reckoning — but not a ‘SaaSpocalypse'

Private credit's exposure to software is being tested by AI, as lenders look past “SaaSpocalypse” fears to identify winners and losers.

Palantir's Karp says businesses are 'unhappy' with the frontier AI labs

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says AI will drive the most important political decisions in the U.S. and shouldn't be decided by party lines.

CNBC: investors are fleeing tech stocks in record numbers

Article: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/investors-are-fleeing-tech-stocks-in-record-numbers.html Key points The AI trade looks like it is finally cooling off. Investors are dumping Big Tech after a strong jobs report pushed Treasury yields higher. The market is realizing that the Federal Reserve may keep rates higher for longer, and that changes the valuation math for expensive tech stocks. This does not mean AI is fake or that the market is collapsing. It looks more like money is rotating out

Thoughts on the Coatue innovative strategies fund(CTEK)?

Has anyone looked into (or invested in) this? Provides quite a decent exposure to AI and related adjacencies under a good/historically well performing fund. Potential bubble aside which will impact some names in their portfolio (and fees + min investment amount), genuinely curious to hear people’s thoughts on this. Thanks in advance. submitted by /u/ExtraInvestigator381 [link] [comments]

North Carolina Treasurer passes on SpaceX citing valuation concerns; favors OpenAI, Anthropic

North Carolina has invested heavily in AI startups OpenAI and Anthropic while avoiding a direct stake in SpaceX.

Why I think Berkshire Hathaway is the best investment right now

Disclaimer: I just bought BRK.B so my analysis may be biased. Data sourced from Tradingview, Xfinlink and FRED. This article is not meant to be financial advice, DYOR. tldr; US debt is too big for the old "print and normalize later" playbook, so the next crisis likely gets solved the British way: rates below inflation for years, bondholders eat the loss. In that world real assets win. BRK is the cleanest way to play it: $300B cash hedge, insurance float leverage, railroad/utilities/energy, plus

AI will help young workers 'mature' faster by automating grunt work, Thoma Bravo says, amid youth job crisis

"If you look at our associates, they're spending a lot less time doing models or comparables than before," Orlando Bravo, founder of Thoma Bravo, told CNBC.

Asia faces risks of economic spillover from Iran and AI disinformation

Smopp Records: “FYI – I am AI”: This Cologne music label exclusively markets AI artists

Prompts should become hits: Smopp Records sees AI-generated music as a business model. However, crucial copyright issues have not yet been clarified.

China’s military warned against ‘dangers of AI sycophancy’ on the battlefield

China’s military mouthpiece has highlighted the “dangers of AI sycophancy” – where artificial intelligence systems alter the facts to match user biases – and called for action to prevent this from harming People’s Liberation Army operations. An article in PLA Daily on Tuesday said the tendency for AI models to cater to user preferences – even endorsing blatant errors over objective facts – posed a “severe threat” at a time when the military relied more on automated systems. “The dangers of AI...

Meta agrees to Indian AI data center deal as hyperscaler bolsters its infrastructure

Meta signs a deal with Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries to lease an AI-enabled data center in India.

Here’s why shares in SoftBank, no longer Japan’s most valuable, have fallen by a fifth in the last week

Concerns about the funding commitments for OpenAI have been widely circulated this year and it appears potential creditors are worried about the company’s failure to hit ambitious internal growth targets

China fast tracks humanoid robots and embodied AI into industry under nationwide programme

China is launching a nationwide training programme to help humanoid robots move from dance performances and marathon races into factories, warehouses and hospitals, as Beijing steps up efforts to commercialise the technology. The goal is to accelerate the deployment of humanoid robots and embodied AI in real-world production and service environments, giving local governments and state-owned enterprises less than six months to prove the technology’s viability in such settings, according to an...