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Starbucks pulls its AI inventory tool nine months in, after it kept confusing the milks

The chain is reverting to manual counts across North America, ending one of CEO Brian Niccol’s more visible technology bets and adding another data point to the file marked “enterprise AI pilots that did not survive contact with the real store.” Starbucks has retired the AI-powered inventory tool it rolled out across its North American […]

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Kawasaki Heavy ties up with Nvidia on physical AI, and the rideable robot horse gets a foundation model

Shares jumped 12% as the Japanese industrial group opened a San Jose development base with Nvidia, Analog Devices, Microsoft, and Fujitsu, with its four-legged CORLEO mobility concept as the first showcase. Kawasaki Heavy Industries said on Friday it will partner with Nvidia and a handful of other US and Japanese firms on physical AI for robots, opening […]

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SpaceX used a $20 billion bridge loan to slash Musk’s debt costs in half, IPO filing reveals

Elon Musk’s strategy of folding his companies into one conglomerate is already paying off. Regulatory documents filed ahead of SpaceX’s historic IPO reveal that the company secured a $20 billion bridge loan from a group of major banks. That loan was used to retire $17.5 billion of high-interest junk debt accumulated by X and xAI. The financial […]

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Europe’s go-to-market accelerator for AI Startups launches

AcceleratorX, a new breed of startup accelerator purpose-built for AI founders opens Cohort 1 applications – offering startups unprecedented access to a pan-European network of 2,000+ marketing and communications professionals across 30 countries as real pilot clients from day one. Most AI startups don’t fail because they can’t build. In 2026, building has become cheap […]

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Grok’s federal stall is undercutting SpaceX’s IPO growth story

Downloads have fallen from 20m in January to 8.3m in April, paid conversion is a fifth of ChatGPT’s, the $0.42-per-agency GSA deal is now stalled, and SpaceX has rented out the Memphis Colossus 1 cluster to Anthropic for $1.25bn a month. SpaceX’s S-1 filed on Tuesday rests on an AI-revenue line Grok is no longer […]

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Samsung chip workers offered a $340,000 average bonus as union pushes toward $1m and an 18-day strike

Leaked transcripts show memory-line staff offered up to 607% bonuses worth $477,000, while logic-chip employees get as little as 50%. The 45,000-person walkout, if it lands, would be the largest in semiconductor-industry history. Samsung Electronics will pay its chip workers an average bonus of about $340,000 for the year, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, as the company […]

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AMD commits more than $10bn to Taiwan’s AI ecosystem with ASE, SPIL and Helios as the visible deliverables

Lisa Su’s Taiwan announcement covers advanced silicon, packaging and manufacturing partnerships for the company’s rack-scale Helios platform, set for deployment in the second half of 2026. AMD announced on Wednesday more than $10bn of investments across Taiwan’s semiconductor ecosystem to expand strategic partnerships and scale advanced packaging manufacturing for next-generation AI infrastructure. The commitment covers a multi-year […]

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Malaysia issues a statutory demand to TikTok over content moderation failures

The MCMC’s first formal Section 39 enforcement under the Online Safety Act 2025 lands on TikTok, with a maximum financial penalty of RM10 million in play if the platform fails to deliver an enforceable moderation plan. Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Commission has issued a formal statutory demand to TikTok over what regulators describe as a […]

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China blocks NVIDIA’s RTX 5090D V2 imports while Jensen Huang was in Beijing

The ban on the China-only Blackwell card landed during the Trump delegation’s state visit, on which the Nvidia CEO was a late addition. Chinese AI buyers had been using the 5090D V2 as a workaround for the H200 procurement vacuum. China stopped granting import permits for Nvidia’s RTX 5090D V2 gaming card on 15 May, […]

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ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are not ready to brief American voters

A new generation of voters will ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok how to vote, where the polling station is, and who is telling the truth. The published research is consistent: the models cannot reliably answer those questions. The election will arrive anyway. In the spring of 2024, a Tow Center researcher at Columbia Journalism […]

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