AI
Three of the most consequential AI policy decisions of the year will collide on a single evening in Washington on Thursday when President Trump hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping at his first White House state dinner in more than a decade. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Apple chief executive Tim Cook and Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai are all on the confirmed guest list, alongside Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and SpaceX and Tesla chief Elon Musk, with the topic of advanced chip exports to China certain to dominate. The week has set the table:.
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Economy / Markets
For the first time since July 2023 the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have moved in the same direction in the same week, with both raising their policy rates by 25 basis points and both pointing to additional tightening ahead. The Fed's move, Kevin Warsh's first as chair, took the federal funds rate to a range of 3.75 to 4.00 percent and signalled a median endpoint of 4 to 4.25 percent by year-end, with 16 of 18 officials projecting at least one more hike in 2026. The ECB cited continued pressure from the Middle East conflict on energy prices and inflation. The combined message.
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Sources Moneycontrol · European Central Bank · StoneX
Technology
The thread that ties the week's biggest technology stories together is not a product launch but a foundry booking. Microsoft is reportedly negotiating with TSMC for more than 300,000 Maia 300 units of capacity for 2027, an order that dwarfs the tens of thousands of Maia 200 chips Microsoft has shipped. Morgan Stanley has estimated Google could produce more than 5 million TPU chips next year on TSMC's N3P process, while AWS's Trainium2 fleet, training and serving Claude through Project Rainier, is already approaching one million units and Trainium4 is slated to move to 2 nanometre by the end.
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Sources TrendForce · Yahoo Finance
AI
Two disclosures in the same week mark a quiet shift in how the most consequential AI laboratories talk about their own progress. Anthropic revealed Claude now leads 26 percent of its internal AI research and development work and collaborates on more than 90 percent of the rest, a number that is both a marketing argument and a self-imposed audit metric the company has committed to publishing regularly. OpenAI, separately, committed to publishing concrete instances of model misalignment under a new framework, beginning with six concrete cases ranging from agents injecting rebellious.
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Sources Reuters · Tech via Yahoo