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The next satisfactory standard for data governance may not come from Brussels. It may come from Beijing.

The European Union treats data as a privacy right. The United States treats it as a corporate asset. China treats it as a factor of production, a national economic resource on par with land, labour, capital, and technology. That distinction, which sounds like an abstraction, is producing a data governance framework that is structurally different […]

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Tesla is selling Chinese-made cars in Canada to escape the tariffs that both China and America imposed on it

Tesla is now selling Chinese-made Model 3 sedans in Canada at the lowest price the car has ever been offered in the country. The Model 3 Premium RWD, manufactured at Giga Shanghai, starts at C$39,490, roughly US$29,000. Two months ago, the cheapest Model 3 available in Canada was the Long Range AWD built at Tesla’s […]

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Spirit Airlines shuts down after Trump’s war on Iran doubled jet fuel prices

The ultra-low-cost air carrier Spirit Airlines shut down operations after 34 years in business and canceled all flights just after midnight Saturday morning. Its website now redirects to spiritrestructuring.com, instructing fliers not to go to airports, with air traffic control records capturing controllers and pilots signing off to each other as its last flights came […]

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Trump is breaking the Turnberry deal over cars. Semiconductors are next in line.

The Turnberry Agreement was supposed to be the floor. Signed at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland last July, the deal between the United States and the European Union set a 15 per cent tariff ceiling on nearly all EU goods entering America, including cars, car parts, semiconductors, and pharmaceutical products. In exchange, the EU […]

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Seven AI companies signed the Pentagon’s terms. The one that refused is worth $900 billion.

The Pentagon announced on 1 May that it has signed agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Reflection AI for expanded use of advanced artificial intelligence on classified military networks. The deals bring the total number of companies with such agreements to seven, following similar arrangements with SpaceX, OpenAI, and Google, which signed its own […]

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Australia’s $22 billion answer to the question the Hormuz crisis asked

When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on 27 March, following weeks of US and Israeli air strikes, Brent crude hit $126 a barrel and the World Bank warned that energy prices would surge by 24 per cent, the largest increase since the Russia-Ukraine shock of 2022. For most oil-importing nations, this was an economic […]

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Congress keeps kicking surveillance reform down the road

Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – but only for another 45 days. The extension is meant to give legislators more time to negotiate reforms to the controversial wiretapping bill. If the past few weeks are any indication of how future debates will go, however, we’re in for a bumpy […]

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Grindr — yes, Grindr — won the WHCD party circuit

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