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Far-right AI war firm Palantir has won yet another UK contract. This time the genocide-linked company’s software will manage guns, explosives, and even poisons held by the British state. The …
Palantir wins contract to manage UK’s guns, explosives, and poisons Read More
Amazon $AMZN -0.80% Web Services (AWS) is showering the U.S. government with discounts. Federal agencies will receive up to $1 billion in credits to be used on cloud services, modernization, and training through …
Amazon Web Services to cut the U.S. government a $1 billion break Read More
Chinese tech giants are quietly shrinking their workforce — echoing a pattern playing out in Silicon Valley. In 2025, e-commerce major Alibabai reduced its head count by 34% as it continues to axe …
The quiet layoffs sweeping China’s tech giants Read More
A US spytech firm deeply embedded in the most sensitive areas of the British state is being scrutinised as part of the fallout from the latest tranche of documents related …
What Is Palantir? How a US Spytech Firm Penetrated the British State Read More
Want to bet on whether the U.S. will attack Iran? An increasing number of people are using Polymarket and similar online prediction markets to gamble on war and other geopolitical …
$50 on war in Iran: How geopolitical bets have surged on Polymarket, in five charts Read More
The Commission found Chinese video-sharing app TikTok’s addictive design features breach the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA) in a preliminary decision on Friday. If the findings are confirmed, the EU …
TikTok’s addictive design features fall foul of EU’s digital rules Read More
More than 84 world leaders, 800 CEOs, and thousands others gathered amid the Alps this week to attend the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Artificial intelligence — …
Is AI a bubble? Davos leaders say no Read More
Countries around the world are investing millions of dollars in building data centers to meet the growing demand for generative artificial intelligence, while also storing data within their own borders. …
Governments welcomed data centers. Now they’re grappling with the fallout Read More
Microsoft and Google say their data centers in Chile would create thousands of jobs. Permit filings show the largest data centers have the potential to create only hundreds of full-time …
Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise Read More
A new kind of gold rush is sweeping the West, and this time the prize isn’t minerals but megawatts. From Phoenix to Colorado’s Front Range, data centers are arriving with …
The West’s new gold rush is the data center boom Read More