A top US export control official says Nvidia has yet to sell any H200 chips to China, two months after President Trump's decision to allow AI chip shipments — Nvidia Corp. has yet to sell any of its H200 chips to China two months after President Donald Trump's decision to allow shipments …
Sources: SAP investors and partners raise doubts about the company's AI products; VW tested SAP's flagship AI assitant Joule and did not find it mature enough — SAP SE's investors and partners are raising doubts about a suite of artificial intelligence products that Europe's …
Discord says it “ran a limited test of Persona in the UK” to verify user ages and “that test has since concluded”, distancing itself from Persona amid backlash — The messaging platform says its ‘limited test’ of Persona in the UK has come to an end.
Data center developers are seeking credit ratings even while facilities are under construction to unlock new capital; S&P, Moody's, and others expand coverage — Agencies are rushing to rate the debt of projects still under construction — Data centre developers are seeking credit ratings …
How Buddy Rizer, an official in Virginia's Loudoun County, helped build the world's largest data center market, with ~200 buildings spanning ~49M square feet — Virginia's Loudoun County is a giant data-center market thanks in part to a radio DJ-turned county executive director for economic development
South Korean trade data: chip exports rose 134% YoY, while computer peripherals rose 129% in the first 20 days of February, extending gains driven by AI demand — South Korea's exports extended their growth momentum in early February, driven by resilient semiconductor demand even as trade uncertainty persists over US tariff policy.
Turkey launches a review of how social media platforms handle children's data as it prepares new rules that include identity verification and age restrictions — Turkey's data protection watchdog has opened a review of how six major social media platforms process children's personal data …
Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hint it will be a major part of Apple's new wearables; sources: Apple considers a deep red iPhone 18 Pro — Apple CEO Tim Cook is signaling that Visual Intelligence will be the defining feature of the company's push into wearable AI devices.
Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M+ on the 2026 US midterms so far, over double the 2024 cycle; crypto PAC Fairshake is the US' fifth most-funded PAC — With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the crypto industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms …
India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country's AI ambitions, as the US and its tech companies largely dismissed India's push for global AI governance — The world's most populous country continues to struggle to find its place in an industry dominated by the US and China
English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed — The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct …
Interviews with Cluely's Roy Lee, Donald Boat, and other highly “agentic” young men, as agency becomes more valuable than technical skills in Silicon Valley — Tech's new generation and the end of thinking … Cluely and its co-founder Chungin “Roy” Lee were intensely, and intentionally, controversial.
A look at the fundamental questions facing OpenAI: its models have a very large user base but very narrow engagement, incumbents are matching its tech, and more — “Jakub and Mark set the research direction for the long run. Then after months of work, something incredible emerges …
An interview with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Custom Notion AI agents launching in the coming week, over 50% of Notion databases now being built by agents, and more — CEO Ivan Zhao on the company's big custom agents launch, changing its business model for AI, hiring a 16-year-old engineer, and more.
Pepper, which provides a digital storefront for independent food distributors, raised a $50M Series C led by Lead Edge, bringing its total funding to $100M — Pepper, a business platform developer for independent food distributors, raised a $50 million Series C led by Lead Edge Capital, CEO Bowie Cheung tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Scott Myers, the head of Snap's AR glasses subsidiary Specs, leaves after six years; sources say Myers left after a “blow-up” with Evan Spiegel over strategy — My chat with CEO Dylan Field ahead of today's earnings call. Also: Snap loses its head of Specs right before the big launch …
Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a $33B power plant in Ohio, set to produce 9.2 GW for AI data centers, as part of the US-Japan trade deal — TOKYO — SoftBank Group will form a consortium to carry out a $33 billion gas-fired power plant project in the U.S. …
General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024 — General Catalyst, a Silicon Valley-based venture firm with more than $43 billion in assets under management, has announced it plans …
The Gates Foundation says Bill Gates will not deliver his keynote at India's AI Summit after “careful consideration” amid controversy over his Epstein ties — Bill Gates will not deliver his keynote address at the India AI Impact Summit in Delhi, his philanthropic organisation …
Indian conglomerate Reliance plans to invest up to $110B in building AI-related infrastructure over the next seven years, and JioHotstar plans a ChatGPT bot — Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's conglomerate will plow as much as 10 trillion rupees ($110 billion) over seven years …
SEC filing: Peter Thiel and Founders Fund have fully exited ETHZilla, down from a 7.5% stake in August 2025; ether is down 60% from its August 2025 peak — Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel and his Founders Fund have fully exited ETHZilla Corp., according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
WBD joins Disney and Paramount in claiming infringement on ByteDance's AI video tool Seedance and demands ByteDance cease training AI on Warner Bros. characters — The studio's legal counsel fired off a letter on Tuesday to John Rogovin, the general counsel of ByteDance who happens …
Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B-parameter open-weight models supporting 70+ languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs — Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit.
Analysis: sports bets on Kalshi generate an estimated ~$1.3B in annualized revenue, underscoring the threat prediction markets pose to traditional operators — DraftKings and Flutter shares slide as investors fret about threat posed by apps such as Kalshi — Sports wagers on Kalshi …
Sources: the WH is pressuring Utah Republican State Rep. Doug Fiefia to abandon HB 286, an AI transparency and kids' safety bill similar to California's AI law — The White House is pressuring a Utah Republican state legislator to abandon AI transparency and kids' safety legislation, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg : A top US export control official says Nvidia has yet to sell any H200 chips to China, two months after Pres...
