Tech billionaires using surrogacy to build tribes in their own image
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Conveyor-belt babies and dynasties dreamed up like software projects

A growing number of tech billionaires are spending their fortunes on industrial-scale surrogacy, churning out dozens of children as if they were rolling out a product line. The aim is not family so much as legacy, built to specification and outsourced across borders.

Chief executives still pile into AI
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A lot of crossed fingers

Another report has confirmed that chief executives of some of the world’s biggest companies are piling into artificial intelligence, even as many admit the money is not coming back yet.

Intel loses EU antitrust appeal but dodges a bigger fine
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Brussels still wants its pound of silicon

Troubled Chipzilla has lost its latest attempt to shake off an EU antitrust ruling, though Europe’s judges did trim a chunky slice off the fine.

Trump's 25 per cent cut of Nvidia sales is "nuts"
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Only helps China

US President Donald Trump's cunning plan to get a 25 per cent cut of Nvidia's AI chip sales to China by allowing the outfit to sell behind the bamboo curtain has been dismissed as nuts.

Samsung finally sorts Exynos heat and rivals notice
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Copper, packaging tweaks that work

Samsung’s Exynos chips were once shorthand for thermal throttling, but the Exynos 2600 suggests those days may finally be numbered.