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Synopsys pulls back from chip fab software to chase AI design margins

Synopsys, the US chip design software giant, is preparing to walk away from the manufacturing control software that helps run the world’s semiconductor fabs, and to redirect the engineers behind it towards the far more lucrative business of AI chip design. The plan, reported by Reuters and attributed to six people briefed on the matter, is a pointed […]

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Tencent moves to sell up to $1.6B of its Kuaishou stake

Tencent is seeking up to $1.6bn by selling down its stake in short-video platform Kuaishou, Bloomberg reports. A term sheet seen by Reuters puts the block trade at up to $1.55bn. The deal covers about 273 million shares, a 7.5% stake, offered at HK$43.15 to HK$44.53 each. That represents a discount of 3.2% to 6.2% to Monday’s […]

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Samsung’s appliance workers plan a rally over the bonuses going to chip staff

The workers who build Samsung’s phones, televisions, and washing machines are about to make their unhappiness visible. Their union says several thousand of them will gather near the company’s Suwon headquarters on 16 July to protest the bonuses their colleagues in the chip division have won, a grievance that has been building since the semiconductor pay […]

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The UN says AI is moving faster than the rules, and it has a report to prove it

The United Nations has put a number of its concerns about artificial intelligence into a single document, and the headline finding is not subtle. AI capabilities, the organisation says, are accelerating faster than any government’s ability to understand, test, or regulate them. The warning arrives as delegates gather in Geneva for the opening of the […]

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The other Dyson empire, measured in acres

Inside a glasshouse the size of roughly 20 football pitches, on the flat black soil of Lincolnshire, strawberry plants ride a Ferris wheel. The wheels stand about 5.5 metres tall, and each one weighs close to half a tonne. They turn slowly, all day, carrying their rows of fruit through the light like carriages at […]

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Spotify pushes back on Kalshi and Polymarket after a song’s chart run looked rigged

Spotify has removed roughly 500,000 streams from Malcolm Todd’s song “Earrings” after the track’s sudden rise to the top of its US daily chart lined up suspiciously well with a bet on the prediction market Kalshi. The company has also asked Kalshi and Polymarket to remove its logo from their sites and make clear that neither platform […]

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UNICEF says children are adopting AI three times faster than adults

A 10-country analysis finds 20 million children already using AI tools, with governance struggling to keep pace with a generation growing up inside what UNICEF calls “a global experiment.” An estimated 20 million children across ten countries have already used artificial intelligence, and they are picking it up more than three times faster than the […]

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Apple’s next iPad Pro and MacBook Pro redesign are coming in 2027

Apple is preparing a refreshed iPad Pro lineup and a redesigned entry-level MacBook Pro for release in the first half of 2027, according to Bloomberg. The iPad Pro update keeps its current 11-inch and 13-inch sizes but focuses on internal changes, and the MacBook Pro overhaul brings the entry-level 14-inch model, codenamed K104, in line […]

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China and US risks leave Europe’s chip sector facing a bleak future, report warns

A new report from the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and the French think tank Institut Montaigne warns that Europe’s semiconductor sector faces a bleak future, squeezed between Chinese export controls and a growing dependence on US technology. The study, published on Thursday, forms part of an 18-month, EU-funded project called the Chips Diplomacy […]

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AI’s hopes and fears take over the world’s big central-bank gathering

Every summer the world’s most powerful central bankers decamp to a hillside town outside Lisbon to argue about the economy in relative calm. This year the argument had a single organising subject, and it was not inflation in the usual sense. It was artificial intelligence, and specifically the awkward fact that nobody in the room […]

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