Rest of World reports that US immigration policy is systematically deterring the next generation of AI leaders from choosing America as their professional home. The irony is hard to miss: the country most invested in AI dominance is running an immigration system that treats the people most likely to build that future as a compliance problem.
25/08/2026 à 16h23 7 5
Waymo is running commercial robotaxi service in multiple US cities. It's also doubling its lobbying budget. Those two facts are related. Autonomous vehicles have crossed from "science project" to "operating business" - which means they've crossed into the territory where politics, unions, and regulatory capture matter more than benchmarks.
24/08/2026 à 20h58 8 8
The security researcher argues that frontier AI labs - too big to fail, too critical to ignore - may need to become public infrastructure if private capital walks away.
14/08/2026 à 18h59 11 9
China's export restrictions on rare earths are showing up in trade data: shipments to Japan and the US have plunged. For AI hardware supply chains dependent on these materials, the geopolitical chokepoint is becoming real.
08/08/2026 à 09h58 11 13
For the first time, China has overtaken the United States in total R&D spending, hitting $615 billion. The implications for the AI race - and for technology leadership over the next decade - are substantial.
08/08/2026 à 09h57 7 9
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta collectively spent ~$95 billion net cash in Q2 2026 on AI infrastructure. The market is already sorting winners from the rest - and debt service will be the final arbiter.
05/08/2026 à 16h40 8 11
Three days after the EU AI Act became enforceable, Washington published a voluntary AI evaluation framework that excludes open-source models. The transatlantic regulatory gap just became official.
05/08/2026 à 16h38 10 8
A new interactive map documents where AI data center growth is translating directly into higher residential power bills - and the geography is more concentrated than the industry would prefer to admit.
04/08/2026 à 23h33 10 9
A confirmed Iranian cyberattack on Minnesota water infrastructure is getting covered as an AI story. It shouldn't be - and that framing is actually dangerous.
04/08/2026 à 23h33 11 12
A one-year moratorium on new data centers - the first in any US state - signals that AI's power appetite is now a political liability, not just an engineering problem.
04/08/2026 à 23h33 15 14
Sequoia Capital co-mène un tour equity de 1 milliard de dollars dans Valar Atomics, startup d'énergie nucléaire. Signal : le capital-risque tech commence à financer directement la couche énergie que les data centers IA vont consommer.
04/08/2026 à 12h01 18 14
Nvidia signe $1,5 Md avec Amkor pour le packaging avancé aux États-Unis. Le point de pincement compute IA remonte d'un cran vers la souveraineté du back-end.
26/07/2026 à 18h40 8 9
