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Google parent Alphabet to sell $80bn in stock to fund AI plans

US tech giant says fundraising drive includes deal to sell $10bn of stockย to Berkshire Hathaway.

How Silicon Valley giants are turning into war contractors

Palantir, Anduril, Google and other tech giants are selling AI-powered, computer-guided weapons systems.

Shadow APIs: how Chinese developers bypass restrictions to access Claude and Gemini

In China, a grey market of API relay platforms is thriving, allowing local developers to bypass restrictions to access top-tier overseas AI models such as Anthropicโ€™s Claude and Googleโ€™s Gemini, which are officially unavailable in the country, despite an escalating crackdown by the foreign providers. Such relay stations, which route access to overseas AI models through proxy servers hosted outside mainland China, are becoming a go-to place for developers wanting to use US AI models for tasks...