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| • Amazon loses 40 Leo satellites after ULA's Vulcan rocket fails 10 minutes into flight, marking the first mission failure for the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture (Joey Roulette/Reuters)
• Analysis: Huawei's Horinger data center, among China's largest for AI, has ~7% of the compute of SpaceX's Colossus 2 and may stay far behind until at least 2028 (Ben Cottier/Epoch AI)
• Megaspeed says Alice Huang left in August 2025 and has no current role, and that it runs a "legitimate and lawful business" as it opens an internal probe (Associated Press)
• Sources: Jensen Huang has discussed a comeback as Nvidia CEO with confidants, as allies form a "war room" to lobby for his return and seek White House support (Financial Times)
• Sources: Nvidia appealed to Taiwanese officials after its manager was charged over chip smuggling, and sought advice from TSMC, which declined to get involved (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
• The US and Pax Silica allies, including Japan, the UK, and India, agree to create a joint list of AI technologies and supply chains to protect from China (Financial Times)
• Sources: Howard Lutnick is expected to join Trump on Air Force One to China this week, after clashing with Scott Bessent and others over Nvidia chip curbs (Ashley Gold/Semafor)
• Sources: Apple plans to unveil smart glasses at WWDC and ship them by the end of 2027, focusing heavily on integration of third-party iPhone apps with Siri AI (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
• Investigation: Howard Lutnick pushed to narrow chip curbs affecting a client of his former firm Cantor Fitzgerald whose Malaysia data center may serve Tencent (New York Times)
• Scott Bessent urges Nvidia to hire an outside CEO and wants answers within 10 days on whether it pushed "seemingly illicit" chip sales to China to boost revenue (Tony Czuczka/Bloomberg)
• Inside the first AI Music Awards in Los Angeles, featuring AI announcers, lip-syncing, and human stand-ins, as the ceremony was mired in technical issues (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
• A post-Jensen Nvidia must reshuffle its leadership, reset its DC ties, and recognize that even the US' most valuable company cannot dictate US foreign policy (Chris Miller/Financial Times)
• Nidus, which is developing AI-powered tech for manufacturing robots used by US defense industrial companies, raised $30M across a pre-seed and a seed (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
• TSMC plans to set up a new $500M fund to invest in chip startups, suppliers, and other upstream partners, saying "we also want to support the future's Nvidia" (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
• Nebuly, whose tech helps enterprises measure the business value of AI agents by analyzing their impact on productivity and revenue, raised a $21M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
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• Amazon is reportedly working on a database for 'virtually every item for sale on Earth'
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• Sony is ditching its cross-product support app for dedicated alternatives
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