Anthropic is finalising a $1.5bn joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic to deploy Claude across PE portfolio companies.

New Mexico is asking a Santa Fe judge to force algorithm changes, age verification, and a $3.7bn teen mental-health fund onto Meta. The company has threatened to leave.

Samsung appointed Won-Jin Lee to head its Visual Display business as Q1 TV profit slipped and TCL closed the gap to a single percentage point.

China's data exchanges traded 87.7B yuan in 2022, projected to hit 515.6B by 2030. Its Digital Silk Road exports governance with infrastructure. The GDPR has no equivalent.

Skydio pledges $3.5B to build US drones after DJI ban, but China controls the magnets, batteries, and motors. American alternatives cost 2-5x more. The supply chain doesn't exist.

ChatGPT subscribers can now run OpenClaw's AI agents via GPT-5.4 for $23/mo. Anthropic blocked Claude. OpenAI and Anthropic made opposite bets on the same product.

Apple discontinued the 256GB Mac Mini as DRAM prices surged 90% in Q1 2026. AI servers now consume 23% of global memory wafer output, pushing PC prices up 10-20%.

Tesla's Shanghai-built Model 3 enters Canada at C$39,490 under Carney's trade deal with Beijing. The 49,000-vehicle quota opens Canada to Chinese EVs at 6.1% tariff.

Grok joins ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini on CarPlay after iOS 26.4 opened the platform to AI chatbots. The car dashboard is now the most contested screen in tech.

Planet Labs launched Pelicans 7-9 with Nvidia AI onboard, building toward 32-satellite constellation. The company turned profitable with $900M in backlog and major NATO, NRO deals.

Beijing banned all drone sales from May 1. The US FCC blocked new DJI products in December. The company that created the industry is caught between two governments.

Apple ended its net cash neutral policy after Q2 earnings of $111.2 billion. Incoming CEO Ternus will have flexibility to invest rather than return all cash to shareholders.