JUST IN: European Union countries are importing more gas from Russia than from the US for the first time in two years, according to consulting firm Bruegel.

"Companies can draw successful #AIadoption plans for their organizations, keeping a close eye on governance, risk management & skilling." ciodive.com/news/4-strateg… via CIO Dive #ai

"The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a subpoena to #Nvidia as part of a probe looking at whether the artificial intelligence chip designer is engaging in #anticompetitive practices." bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #antitrust

"The move is the biggest step yet by China’s two biggest tech giants toward making their consumer apps interoperable, after years of building #walledgardens that cut off each other’s services." theinformation.com/briefings/alib… #alibaba #tencent #digitalpayments #interoperability #china

"OpenAI CEO #SamAltman’s plan to raise money for new #datacenters, power sources, and chip manufacturing plants for artificial intelligence will start in the U.S. and could cost tens of billions of dollars." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"#ChinaMobile International (CMI) has activated the PEACE #submarinecable, a 15,000-kilometer link connecting Singapore & France." telecoms.com/telecoms-infra…

"As #Canva moves toward a possible #IPO, the graphic #designsoftware company has a big hole: Its CFO resigned in February & hasn’t been replaced. What’s more, just three of its seven C-suite executives have worked at a public company." theinformation.com/articles/the-p…

"Nonfounder CEOs, as well as executives in charge of important business units, should also operate in #founder mode, and their boards should reward these behaviors." theinformation.com/articles/found… #leadership #tech

"#ByteDance has increased its share price in its latest employee buyback, an increase that's in line with secondary market trades that have lifted its valuation close to $230 billion." theinformation.com/articles/byted…

"#FilmNoir was first identified at a distance. In 1946, Italian-born French critic Nino Frank coined the term to describe a cycle of coolly cynical crime thrillers produced by Hollywood earlier in that decade, but only recently available in Paris." theguardian.com/film/article/2… #films

"#Microsoft’s vision of using artificial intelligence to take some of the drudgery out of creating spreadsheets, documents and slide presentations is running into snags at businesses like Ascendion, a technology consulting firm." theinformation.com/articles/micro… #ai

The Government Accountability Office estimates the federal government loses between $233 billion to $521 billion annually to fraud based on data from 2018 - 2022. That’s ~2% of America’s GDP stolen every year & a trillion dollars lost for those years🫠.

"#SafeSuperintelligenceInc., the secretive artificial intelligence lab started by OpenAI co-founder #IlyaSutskever, has raised $1 billion in capital." theinformation.com/briefings/safe… #startups #ai

"The problems stem from the continuing impact of a four-year-old U.S. ban on the supply of #chipmaking equipment to #Huawei and #SMIC." theinformation.com/articles/apple… #TechWar #TheWideningTurn

XREAL Chip “We’ve been quietly working on something extraordinary for over two years, and it’s finally almost here. Our new chip and product are set to surprise many and redefine the boundaries of what’s possible. Stay tuned for the reveal.” — XREAL 👓 via r/AR_MR_XR/ at Reddit

asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter… It's China's plan to Sino-Form the world, as I wrote in 2020 book, "You WIll Be Assimilated." There are 6 billion people in the Global South and China wants to dominate their infrastructure, manufacturing, and digital economy. It has a plan. We don't.

"Less than three years after its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, business process outsourcing firm TDCX was taken private in a deal valuing the Singapore-headquartered firm at just over $1 billion." forbes.com/sites/jonathan… #BPO

"Elon Musk’s recent claim that his #xAI startup had assembled a #cluster of 100,000 #Nvidia #chips in four months represents '#tablestakes' for the kinds of ai Musk is pursuing, venture capitalist Reid Hoffman said Thurs. at The Information’s AI Summit." theinformation.com/articles/opena…