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Top news events, current events and major headlines in business & technology: stock market, major tech IPOs, the trillion-dollar club, the AI race, the AI bubble, Big Tech regulation, chip wars and more.

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Economy

North Korea denies FBI’s accusation of role in $6.3b Binance hack as exchange faces billions in withdrawals

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North Korea denies the FBI’s claim it stole $6.3billion from Binance, as the exchange replaces missing assets and faces billions in global customer withdrawals.
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Technology

Anthropic files for IPO as Claude’s rapid growth meets soaring AI costs

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Anthropic files for a Nasdaq IPO, revealing surging Claude revenue, steep losses and vast computing costs as investors weigh the promise and risks of AI's rise.
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Technology

Meta ordered to pay $25billion in New Mexico Facebook privacy case

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A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading Facebook users about privacy and harmful content. The company says it will appeal the ruling.
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Technology

PHP2Shell: How a Decade-Old Flaw in the Web’s Backbone Pulled Sites Offline Worldwide

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PHP2Shell flaws sent websites offline worldwide as governments raced to patch servers, exposing the risks of aging web infrastructure and AI-driven cyberattacks.
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Technology

Trump Calls for US to Rename AI ‘Super Intelligence’

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Trump says the US will rename artificial intelligence “super intelligence,” sparking debate over AI’s capabilities, regulation and future.
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Technology

AI leaders call for slowdown — and US response splits between labs and Washington

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US AI leaders — Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk — publicly called for a slowdown in frontier AI development citing safety concerns.
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Culture & Community

Australia gives social media users an algorithm “off switch” in landmark digital duty-of-care bill

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Australia’s draft “digital duty of care” bill lets users opt out of social media algorithms, imposes A$109m fines and strengthens under‑18 safety rules.
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AI RACE

Technology

Anthropic files for IPO as Claude’s rapid growth meets soaring AI costs

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Anthropic files for a Nasdaq IPO, revealing surging Claude revenue, steep losses and vast computing costs as investors weigh the promise and risks of AI's rise.
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(Geo)Politics

Trump’s ‘morally binding’ AI pact puts tech giants in the referee’s seat

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Trump and six AI CEOs signed a voluntary “morally binding” safety accord—no legal teeth, a glaring typo, and big questions over audits and enforcement.
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Technology

Trump Calls for US to Rename AI ‘Super Intelligence’

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Trump says the US will rename artificial intelligence “super intelligence,” sparking debate over AI’s capabilities, regulation and future.
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(Geo)Politics

Trump announces ‘AI Force’ and new AI czar, doubling down on pro‑growth stance

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Trump announces a federal “AI Force” and new AI czar, modeled on Space Force, to keep the US ahead of China while rejecting new rules that could slow AI growth.
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Technology

AI leaders call for slowdown — and US response splits between labs and Washington

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US AI leaders — Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk — publicly called for a slowdown in frontier AI development citing safety concerns.
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Technology

OpenAI declares ‘AGI era’ with GPT‑6 Astra launch

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OpenAI rolled out GPT‑6 Astra, framing the release as the industry’s closest step yet to artificial general intelligence.
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Technology

NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face in $12.93billion bet on Open-Source AI

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NVIDIA will acquire Hugging Face, the New York–based platform widely described as the “GitHub for AI for $12.93billion.
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INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS

Business

Shein’s Hong Kong debut exposes the limits of fast fashion’s growth machine

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The long-awaited listing immediately exposed investors’ doubts about the fast-fashion retailer’s growth prospects.
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Business

Amazon joins $3trillion club as AI-driven cloud boom powers record rally

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Amazon became only the fifth company in history to reach a US$3T valuation, joining Nvidia, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft.
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Business

Trump Media launches paid “fast lane” to Truth Social posts, sparking insider-trading alarms

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TMTG spokesperson Shannon Devine has argued that critics are inventing a "new theory of ‘insider trading’ based on publicly available information".
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Business

Trump turns on oil giants: “Too much money” from Iran war profits

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The remarks came after ExxonMobil and Chevron posted blockbuster earnings attributed to war‑driven supply shocks and elevated crude prices.
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Business

China hits Trip.com with $770million antitrust fine in sweeping crackdown on online travel market

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The penalty follows a six-month investigation launched in January 2026, but authorities found that the anti-competitive conduct stretched back as far as 2020.
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Business

SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won ordered to pay $640million in South Korea’s “divorce of the century”

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South Korean media has long called the case the "divorce of the century" involving one of the country’s most powerful family-controlled conglomerates.
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Business

DeepSeek Eyes 2027 IPO as valuation soars and founder tops global AI wealth rankings

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The planned IPO comes amid a sharp rise in DeepSeek’s valuation and revenue, underscoring intensifying competition among AI firms to secure capital.
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North Korea denies FBI’s accusation of role in $6.3b Binance hack as exchange faces billions in withdrawals

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North Korea denies the FBI’s claim it stole $6.3billion from Binance, as the exchange replaces missing assets and faces billions in global customer withdrawals.
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Anthropic files for IPO as Claude’s rapid growth meets soaring AI costs

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Anthropic files for a Nasdaq IPO, revealing surging Claude revenue, steep losses and vast computing costs as investors weigh the promise and risks of AI's rise.
Read more

Meta ordered to pay $25billion in New Mexico Facebook privacy case

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A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading Facebook users about privacy and harmful content. The company says it will appeal the ruling.
Read more

PHP2Shell: How a Decade-Old Flaw in the Web’s Backbone Pulled Sites Offline Worldwide

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PHP2Shell flaws sent websites offline worldwide as governments raced to patch servers, exposing the risks of aging web infrastructure and AI-driven cyberattacks.
Read more

Trump Calls for US to Rename AI ‘Super Intelligence’

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Trump says the US will rename artificial intelligence “super intelligence,” sparking debate over AI’s capabilities, regulation and future.
Read more

AI leaders call for slowdown — and US response splits between labs and Washington

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US AI leaders — Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk — publicly called for a slowdown in frontier AI development citing safety concerns.
Read more

Australia gives social media users an algorithm “off switch” in landmark digital duty-of-care bill

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Australia’s draft “digital duty of care” bill lets users opt out of social media algorithms, imposes A$109m fines and strengthens under‑18 safety rules.
Read more

OpenAI declares ‘AGI era’ with GPT‑6 Astra launch

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OpenAI rolled out GPT‑6 Astra, framing the release as the industry’s closest step yet to artificial general intelligence.
Read more

NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face in $12.93billion bet on Open-Source AI

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NVIDIA will acquire Hugging Face, the New York–based platform widely described as the “GitHub for AI for $12.93billion.
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Meta agrees to up to $18B settlement, sweeping teen safeguards on Facebook and Instagram

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Over the next decade, Meta must enforce a suite of default protections for teen accounts on Facebook and Instagram, with many controls adjustable only by a parent or guardian.
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Anthropic to watermark Claude-generated text worldwide under EU AI transparency rules

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The move follows Anthropic’s decision to sign the European Union’s Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.
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AI agents cross a new line as Meta joins Anthropic and OpenAI in test-environment breaches

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Frontier models have accessed real systems, impersonated people and attempted to manipulate software developers during cybersecurity evaluations.
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