A year after turning down a $500 million Nvidia investment, Hugging Face's three French founders are each worth $1.8 billion under Nvidia's $12.93 billion acquisition, Nvidia's second-largest ever, raising questions about the platform's neutrality in the open-source AI ecosystem.
The Court didn't rule on whether Trump's order restricting mail-in voting is legal, only that the states suing over it moved too soon. Justice Jackson's dissent warns the same logic could let a final rule take effect too late for states to stop it before November.
A new joint venture built on 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan reserves gives Washington a 55% stake and makes the company the world's second-largest corporate oil holder after Saudi Aramco, but Venezuela's production has collapsed to a third of its peak.
Richard Tice's plan to fold Britain's £391 billion local government pension scheme into a sovereign wealth fund has a staffing problem most state investment vehicles never solve. Bloomberg reports Reform intends to pay City-competitive salaries to fix it.
CCM has managed Tanzania's politics through internal consensus for six decades. Its decision to expel outgoing Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi rather than let him resign quietly shows how badly the crackdown after Samia Suluhu Hassan's disputed reelection has split the party.
The former Commerce Secretary tells Fortune the substance of a U.S.-Canada trade deal was never the real obstacle — it's a Canadian public soured by Trump's '51st state' jabs and a leaked Vance recording mocking Mark Carney.
UAE retail investors are reacting to Trump's statements within moments, part of a broader boom that saw Dubai's exchange jump 40% and the Middle East account for more than half of Capital.com's global trading volume in the second quarter.
A new State Department initiative recruits defense and surveillance tech firms to advise on digital freedom of expression, a pairing experts call baffling given the companies' own track records on data collection and border surveillance.
Bolivia holds a fifth of the world's lithium but mines almost none of it. President Rodrigo Paz needs a constitutional change and Indigenous buy-in to fix that, while residents around the Salar de Uyuni say opaque contracts with China and Russia have already cost the government their trust.
The White House's national security science and technology strategy leans on deep coordination with allies and even 'cooperative restraint' with rivals like China, a more measured posture that sits awkwardly next to the administration's tariffs and troop drawdowns.
Elbridge Colby spent a week telling the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia that the US is 'digging in,' even as Washington redirected a carrier to the Middle East and gutted drills with South Korea the same week.
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Hours into the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise, Trump ordered it scaled back, citing Seoul's refusal to join the Iran war and his rapport with Kim Jong Un, a reversal that reframes decades of U.S. alliance messaging on the Korean Peninsula.
Days after Moscow warned Britain would 'pay a higher price' for arming Kyiv with long-range drones, new Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged the UK's support for Ukraine is '100 percent' and unchanged.
After absorbing thousands of Iranian missile and drone attacks and years of quiet economic ties, the UAE halted all trade and financial transactions with Tehran, a sharp escalation that landed hours after a call between Trump and the UAE's president.
With a 72-hour tariff pause running out, Washington and Ottawa are trading concessions on steel, autos, and lumber, and Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is heading into the deal from a position of strength.
Tehran is promising a crushing response to Washington's threatened new sanctions package, while Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly pressures China, Iran's largest oil buyer, to fall in line. Beijing is refusing.
Ecuador's Daniel Noboa has staked his presidency on a close partnership with Washington, but a stalled economy and a second state visit to Beijing show he isn't willing to leave Chinese trade and investment on the table.
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Washington's chip export controls were built to slow China down, but new results out of Chinese chipmakers suggest the policy may be accelerating the very self-sufficiency it was meant to prevent.
Copper just hit an all-time high price, and the industry's bigger worry is not the price itself but how much of the smelting behind it is now concentrated in Chinese hands.
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