If growth were to slow in the semiconductor sector, would the slowdown take the Korean economy with it?

ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok, has secured a $29.6 billion loan, according to people familiar with the matter, in Asia’s second-largest dollar-denominated borrowing this year.

Nvidia announced a new data center deal with Equinix and Together AI on Wednesday to help enterprise customers with open-model inference.

UNICEF: A survey of 21,000 internet-using children aged 12 to 17 across 21 countries finds almost one in five experienced tech-facilitated sexual exploitation and abuse

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Uber is aligning with drivers' unions in a bid to slow the rollout of robotaxis across the US, as it faces a technological disruption to its core business

Previously unpublished government data reveals the scale of Taiwan’s crackdown on Chinese companies accused of hiding their ties while recruiting chip talent and pursuing sensitive technology.

Organized opposition toppled a $100 billion project from developers backed by two of the world’s biggest private equity companies.

Company executives and U.S. officials said that strict rules could strangle an industry capable of supercharging global growth and curing diseases.

Representatives from the world’s largest economies unanimously agreed to adopt guidelines proposed by the US that call for a lighter touch toward governing artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, handing a win to the Trump administration…

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After finding antitrust violations, federal courts have been reluctant to impose harsh sanctions. They fear meddling in markets where technology is racing ahead.

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In addition, the F.C.C. is weighing stiff restrictions on common drone technology such as thermal imaging and aerosol spraying.

Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Israeli startup Guardio, which offers a subscription consumer security service to protect digital accounts like emails, raised $40M at a $1.1B valuation

A little-known company called Fluidstack has become a test bed for Google’s plans to push its own AI chip. That’s helped it hit a $18 billion valuation and minted its founders as new billionaires.

Pragyan Kalita / Reuters: PlusAI, which is operating autonomous freight routes in Texas with trucking company Ryder, plans to go public in a SPAC deal at an $800M pre-money valuation

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that with Hugging Face, the chipmaker will "expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide."

A new market intelligence report suggests that Apple will be paying four times more for iPhone 18 Pro memory than...