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Google’s Search Monopoly Faces a £5 Billion Confrontation in the UK
In an escalating confrontation between one of the world’s most dominant technology firms and the legal systems of democratic economies seeking to restore market balance, Google now faces a £5 billion class-action lawsuit in the United Kingdom. The legal action, launched before the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal and led by Professor Or Brook—a specialist in…
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How U.S. Export Controls on AI Chips Are Reshaping the Global Tech Order
The U.S. government’s decision to indefinitely restrict the export of Nvidia’s H20 artificial intelligence chip to China has triggered a significant financial and strategic upheaval within one of the world’s leading AI hardware firms. Nvidia has disclosed it will incur a $5.5 billion charge, a figure reflecting losses tied to inventory, contractual purchase obligations, and…
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Cathedrals of Code: On the Theological Economy of Silicon Capitalism
In the constellation of late capitalist titans, the contemporary standing of Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), Meta Platforms (Facebook), and OpenAI serves as both a quantitative measurement of economic gravity and a qualitative index of the unfolding spiritual, political, and epistemological transformations of our era. The sheer scale of their current market capitalizations—Apple at $3.8 trillion,…
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Isomorphic Labs and the AI Revolution in Drug Discovery: Toward a Computable Biology
In a development emblematic of the growing entanglement between advanced artificial intelligence research and the life sciences, Isomorphic Labs—a London-based enterprise conceived in 2021 as a spin-off of Alphabet’s renowned AI research unit, DeepMind—has secured $600 million in external financing in its inaugural funding round. The round was led by Thrive Capital, with substantial participation…
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