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Tech Headlines (last 30 hours)

Ajinomoto says it can meet demand through 2030 for ABF a key material for advanced chipmaking substrates and plans to expand capacity instead of hiking prices

After years of uncertainty including delayed listings memory chipmaker Kioxia's shares soared 56x in 18 months making it Japan's most valuable company

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup begins there is still no clear replacement for "Sports Twitter" which was a perfect second-screen experience during live events

Challenger Gray & Christmas: out of 398K US jobs cuts in 2026 through May employers cited AI as the reason for 88K of them up from 54K in all of 2025

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says memory is now the costliest phone component accounting for 50% of BOM in some models and predicts phone prices will rise into 2027

US export controls on Anthropic reignite debate in India over the country's AI ambitions which are increasingly tied to tech developed and governed in the US

US officials: the Trump administration's decision to impose export controls on Anthropic followed multiple tense calls between Dario Amodei and admin officials

Companies are grappling with whether and how to curb employee wagers on prediction markets that may use confidential info as platforms tighten their own rules

Q&A with labor researcher Molly Kinder on her recent widely discussed "Messy Middle" essay on AI-driven disruption of knowledge jobs and how to address it

Source: the White House imposed export controls on Mythos partly over suspicions a China-linked group had accessed it

How the AI boom is revolutionizing US stock markets as hyperscalers cut buybacks and boost capex including Alphabet's planned $85B in equity offerings for AI

Source: the White House is unlikely to extend export restrictions to other AI companies

European political figures say Anthropic disabling access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 is a "wake-up call" about the risks of depending on the US for AI tech

Report: opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 US data center projects in Q1 2026 worth $130B; data center opposition groups doubled to 833 across 49 states

David Sacks says Dario Amodei refused to "fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model" after "a highly credible trusted partner" reported a Fable jailbreak

Sources: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is among tech leaders who raised concerns with Trump officials about Mythos 5 setting in motion new export restrictions

US barring foreign nationals including Anthropic staffers in the US from using Fable 5 and Mythos 5 marks a new phase in the US trying to control Anthropic

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