Wednesday, Jun 17, 2026
Softcat’s Upgrade Is a Quiet Read on Where Corporate AI Spending Actually Sits
Softcat does not build AI models. It does not run data centers. The Marlow-based firm sells and implements IT infrastructure…
Beijing Says It Never Told AI Firms to Reject U.S. Money. Does That Settle It?
On Friday morning in Beijing, NDRC spokesperson Li Chao stood at a press briefing and delivered a denial that had…
Spotify Just Flipped the Fan Remix Market – and UMG Wants a Cut This Time
For years, fans made remixes in bedrooms, posted them without permission, and waited for takedown notices that sometimes never came.…
Starship Grounded Again – But the IPO Clock Is Already Ticking
Forty seconds from liftoff, a hydraulic pin refused to retract. That was enough. SpaceX scrubbed the 12th test flight of…
China’s Robot Schools: How Beijing Turns Human Labor Into Machine Intelligence
Inside a training facility in Beijing, Kenneth Ren guides a robot through the same grip sequence for the hundredth time…
Ralph Lauren Just Crossed $8 Billion – Full-Price Luxury Is Not Slowing Down
Luxury fashion has a short memory for uncertainty. Ralph Lauren reported fourth-quarter fiscal 2026 results on May 21 that beat…
The Scrap Pile as a Supply Chain: AI Recyclers Are Cashing In on the Aluminum Spike
Aluminum prices have surged roughly 20% this year, and the proximate cause is geopolitical. Around 10% of global aluminum production…
Truecaller’s eSIM Bet – Clever Distribution Play or Sign of Something Deeper?
Truecaller built a 500 million-user business on one premise: knowing who is calling. That is a powerful position in emerging…
Fuel Cells, Not Grid Lines: How Nebius and Bloom Energy Are Solving AI’s Power Problem
The biggest bottleneck in AI infrastructure right now is not chips. It is electricity. Specifically, it is the gap between…
28 Percent Gone – Eli Lilly’s Retatrutide Just Rewrote the Obesity Playbook
Eli Lilly may have just changed the weight-loss conversation for good. On May 21, the Indianapolis-based pharma giant announced positive…
Google’s Audio Glasses Are Here – and Meta’s Roadmap Just Got More Crowded
Google hasn't forgotten about smart glasses. Not even close. At I/O 2026 in Mountain View on Tuesday, the company unveiled…
Singapore Bets Big: Why a City-State Is Becoming the World’s AI Proving Ground
Two deals. Two tech giants. One city-state with a very deliberate plan. On Tuesday, at Singapore's ATxSummit – the flagship…
Talking to Your Inbox: Gmail Live Is Either the Future of Email or the End of Typing
Google just turned your inbox into a conversation partner. At Google I/O 2026 on Tuesday, the company announced Gmail Live,…
Boeing’s China Comeback: 200 Planes, a Decade of Waiting, and What the Fine Print Actually Says
For nearly a decade, Boeing watched China's commercial aviation market grow without it. That changed on May 14, when President…
Samsung’s Chips Are on Strike – and the Bill Could Hit $700 Million a Day
The world's largest memory chipmaker just ran out of runway. On Wednesday, government-mediated talks between Samsung Electronics and its biggest…