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Huawei's Improbable Comeback: The tech giant is thriving despite crushing US sanctions. How? By pivoting hard into AI chips and doubling down on the Chinese market. The kicker? Their homegrown 7nm process node is way more advanced than anyone expected. Looks like those export controls might've backfired spectacularly.

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• The UK's competition watchdog is unleashing AI on bid-riggers. They're testing an ML model to sniff out collusion in public contract bids. Clever move, but I can already hear the "but what about false positives?!" crowd warming up their keyboards.

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• China just greenlit the world's largest hydroelectric dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river. 60GW capacity, absolutely bonkers engineering feat. But also: massive geopolitical implications for India downstream. Water wars, anyone?

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• Apple's embracing Nvidia GPUs for LLM inference with their open-source ReDrafter tech. Hell froze over, pigs are flying, etc.
• CrowdStrike's stock fully recovered from last year's global IT meltdown. Turns out breaking everyone's systems is great for business.
• United Airlines is fast-tracking Starlink Wi-Fi on planes. Finally, in-flight Twitter will be tolerable.

If Waymo's robotaxis always stop for pedestrians in crosswalks, how long until humans start abusing that to create traffic chaos? The "Pedestrian's Dilemma" might be the new "Trolley Problem" for autonomous vehicles.

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