SpaceX revealed in a regulatory filing on Friday that Google will pay it $920 million a month for computing power, pumping billions of dollars into Elon Musk’s rocket company as it prepares for a blockbuster initial public offering. The agreement, which starts in October and runs through June 2029, could earn SpaceX about $30 billion […]

Every month, at least two to three Indian-origin AI researchers in Silicon Valley between the ages of 25 and 35 reach out to Aakrit Vaish, founder of AI venture fund Activate, asking, “How can I come back to India and work in AI?” As we spoke, the Mumbai-based executive explained that Indian startups are hoping […]

Nonfiction Artificial Intelligence Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI By Nick Srnicek Nick Srnicek details the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, and how a handful of big tech companies, and the U.S. and China, are jostling to control its development. Their actions will lead to an increasingly fragmented global economy, he writes.  […]

For years, the assumption around artificial intelligence infrastructure was that serious compute would be built in places where hyperscale cloud, developer density, and capital were already concentrated: Silicon Valley, Seattle, London, and a small number of other technology hubs. There was a practical reason for these geographies. Training and deploying AI at scale requires data […]

Daniel Wang came home to his apartment in Beijing and saw a humanoid robot waiting for him. He opened the door, and the robot got to work.  The robot, developed by Shenzhen-based X Square Robot, moved slowly. It spent an hour folding about three pieces of clothing, and another arranging Wang’s shoes. Most of the […]

Electric cars became more affordable across much of the world in 2025 — except the U.S. One in four cars sold globally is now electric. Penetration in the U.S., however, still hovers just around 10%, according to the International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook 2026 report released on May 20. Over the past year, average […]

India is partnering with the United Arab Emirates to ease the grip of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google on artificial intelligence computing. G42, backed by Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, signed an agreement on May 15 to deploy 64 supercomputers made by U.S. chipmaker Cerebras to India. A G42 unit will handle their installation, operations, […]

On Monday, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, titled Magnifica Humanitas, or magnificent humanity. The 83-page letter is about “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence,” and warns that AI power shouldn’t be concentrated in the hands of a few private companies, that jobs should be protected, and that there should […]

With the Strait of Hormuz closed, the Panama Canal is busier than ever. It should use this windfall wisely. BY MARÍA FERNANDA BOZMOSKIAND IGNACIO ALBE WASHINGTON—The closure of the Strait of Hormuz and flaring tensions in other nearby maritime chokepoints are reconfiguring global shipping. Amid the disruption, shipping companies have diverted their vessels to other, […]

For decades, the pilgrimage route for ambitious tech founders, investors, and engineers led to Silicon Valley. Now, a growing number of them are flying to Shanghai, Hangzhou, or Shenzhen instead. China is seeing a surge in a new kind of tech tourism where visitors pay up to $9,000 for curated tours of electric-vehicle factories, robotaxis, […]