WiseTech's Richard White Faces Human Trafficking Investigation Claims as Shareholders Lose Patience

The billionaire chairman of Australian logistics software giant WiseTech is under scrutiny again, and this time investors appear to be running out of goodwill.

Sarah Williams · 22 Jun · 4 min

Fox Pays $22 Billion for Roku and Suddenly Everyone's Paying Attention to Free TV

The ad-supported streaming wars just got a lot more expensive. Fox's blockbuster Roku deal is either a masterstroke or a very pricey panic move, depending on who you ask.

Mark Kowalski · 20 Jun · 7 min

Did China Get Its Hands on ASML's Most Advanced Chip Machine?

The US government thinks it might have, and that's a very big deal for the future of AI hardware and anything built on top of it.

Sarah Williams · 20 Jun · 4 min

Three Amazon engineers testified at Seattle City Council. A week later, they were called into meetings with 'Employee Relations.' Draw your own conclusions.

Mark Kowalski · 20 Jun · 7 min

Trump says Intel and Apple will design and produce semiconductors domestically. Markets loved it. The details, as usual, are thin.

Mark Kowalski · 19 Jun · 6 min

Commerce Secretary Lutnick's letter to Anthropic isn't just a regulatory footnote. It's the moment Washington decided it owns the export question for frontier AI.

Mark Kowalski · 18 Jun · 7 min

The US government forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models from international users, and the reasoning is murkier than officials are letting on.

James Chen · 15 Jun · 4 min

The US Commerce Department's export controls on Anthropic's most advanced models reveal something important: broad AI restrictions are blunt instruments, and their collateral damage is immediate.

Aisha Patel · 15 Jun · 8 min

Keir Starmer just announced one of the strictest social media crackdowns in the democratic world. Whether it'll actually work is a different question entirely.

Mark Kowalski · 15 Jun · 7 min

A new partnership lets AI agents make purchases on your behalf. The tech is real, the ambition is enormous, and the questions about trust are ones we haven't figured out yet.

Mark Kowalski · 14 Jun · 6 min

The SpaceX IPO is the biggest market event in years, and everyone's acting like nothing like this has ever happened. It has.

Mark Kowalski · 14 Jun · 7 min

A group called 'Outsider Enterprise' allegedly used AI to blast scam messages at scale. Google's lawsuit is the right move, but it won't be the last time we have this conversation.

Mark Kowalski · 14 Jun · 5 min

Tech Secretary Liz Kendall pledged stronger backing for Britain's AI sector at London Tech Week, but the specifics remain thin and the robotics research community has heard this kind of thing before.

Aisha Patel · 13 Jun · 8 min

A $75 billion debut, a fixed price set before the roadshow, and pension managers already raising red flags. SpaceX's IPO is historic in more ways than one.

Sarah Williams · 13 Jun · 5 min

Brian Schimpf's comments at Founders Forum signal a meaningful shift in how defense-tech startups are thinking about manufacturing geography, and what that means for allied industrial capacity.

Aisha Patel · 12 Jun · 7 min

A $110 billion media merger is getting EU scrutiny over Middle Eastern funding. That's genuinely interesting, but it has nothing to do with robotics or AI research.

Aisha Patel · 12 Jun · 9 min

A state-run newspaper calling for worker protections sounds like progress. Whether Beijing will actually act on it is a different question entirely.

Aisha Patel · 12 Jun · 8 min

Indian investigators will not meet Friday's mandatory deadline to explain last year's Air India crash, with GE engine analysis in the US still pending.

Aisha Patel · 12 Jun · 5 min

Most headlines framed this as a corporate standoff. The actual issue is about what client-side scanning does to end-to-end encryption, and that distinction matters.

Aisha Patel · 12 Jun · 7 min

The FTX founder's formal pardon application is the latest chapter in a story that feels awfully familiar to anyone who's watched tech's relationship with political power.

Mark Kowalski · 9 Jun · 6 min

The UK's AI Minister made the media rounds, but if you were hoping for concrete robotics investment numbers or deployment targets, you'll have to keep waiting.

James Chen · 8 Jun · 5 min

OpenAI and Anthropic want Congress to regulate DNA synthesis companies, not themselves. That's the real story here.

Sarah Williams · 5 Jun · 3 min

At the Northeast National Security Conference, officials called for rapid innovation pathways while manufacturers grapple with the harder problem of actually building things domestically.

James Chen · 5 Jun · 4 min