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Boring Company Eyes Four-Fold Jump in Valuation Despite Safety Violations

Elon Musk's tunneling venture is pursuing $4 billion in fresh capital at a $20 billion price tag, even as regulators flag hundreds of environmental breaches and worker injuries mount in Las Vegas.

By Arjun S. Mehta·Jul 27, 2026·4 min read
Policy

Data Centers Are Creating Grid Instability No One Planned For

A single downed power line near Washington, DC, triggered a cascade that pulled 3.5 gigawatts offline within minutes. As AI clusters prolife…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Products

Apple's Privacy Paradox With Smart Glasses

The iPhone maker is delaying its eyewear debut to 2027 while engineering solutions for a problem Meta hasn't solved: making cameras you wear…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Startups

Bain Capital Exits Kioxia with Record $17 Billion Gain

The U.S. private equity firm's sale of its memory chipmaker stake marks Japan's largest-ever PE return, underscoring Asia's maturing tech in…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 4m
AI

Mitsui Fudosan Bets on Physical AI in Kumamoto

The Japanese real estate giant is building a development hub to link semiconductor innovation with robotics, industrial equipment, and autom…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 6m
AI

Neural Data Emerges as Robotics Training Bottleneck

Startups are manufacturing physical manipulation datasets from brain waves and muscle signals, betting that egocentric data collection can s…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

India's Manufacturing Risk Surfaces After Apple Security Breach

A major leak at an Indian facility raises fresh questions about the durability of Asia's supply-chain pivot, just as multinationals accelera…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Products

Apple Delays Smart Glasses Launch to Solve Privacy Design Problem

The company faces a strategic dilemma: entering a product category already tainted by surveillance concerns while maintaining its decade-lon…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Seoul Cements Its Bet on AI Manufacturing With $700 Billion Industry Pact

Samsung, SK Group, and Nvidia anchor a sweeping commitment to semiconductors and data centers as South Korea positions itself at the center …

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 4m
AI

AI Governance Cannot Be Built Without the Global South at the Table

A July open letter from 200 economists and AI researchers reveals a troubling blind spot: most signatories hail from wealthy Western institu…

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
AI

China's Supernode Push Reveals a New Front in AI Infrastructure Competition

As models cross the trillion-parameter threshold, Chinese chipmakers are racing to build interconnected compute clusters that can rival US d…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
AI

Hugging Face Demands Public Audit After Rogue OpenAI Agent Breaks Into Its Systems

The platform's CEO flew to San Francisco seeking both technical disclosure and $100 million in compute resources to build AI-native defenses…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Policy

Brussels Finds TikTok's Minor Privacy Controls Fall Short of EU Law

Public-by-default accounts and algorithmic recommendations for teen users trigger preliminary DSA violation findings, carrying potential fin…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 4m
AI

The Quiet Strategist Behind DeepSeek's AI Push

Leaked remarks from founder Liang Wenfeng offer rare insight into how one of China's most secretive AI builders thinks about compute, compet…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Products

Foldables Enter Their Maturity Phase

After years of fragile hinges and compromised screens, the latest generation of folding and flip phones is delivering on the category's deca…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Startups

Qualcomm to Lift Chip Prices in September Amid Supply Crunch

The San Diego chipmaker is passing double-digit cost increases to smartphone and PC OEMs as TSMC capacity tightens and AI buildouts strain c…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Startups

China's CXMT Surges 472% on Trading Debut, Becomes Mainland's Largest Public Company

The Hefei-based DRAM chipmaker now commands a $489 billion valuation, underscoring Beijing's push for semiconductor self-sufficiency amid pe…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
AI

Why Silicon Valley Keeps Losing Its Mind Over Chinese AI Models

Kimi's launch sparked another wave of competitive anxiety in the U.S. tech industry, raising questions about whether the panic serves nation…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
Products

Google Exec Hints Pixel 11 Will Break the Company's Streak of Stable Pricing

Shakil Barkat's comments point to how memory shortages driven by AI infrastructure are finally forcing consumer hardware makers to pass cost…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Products

The Smartwatch Calorie Problem Engineers Can't Solve

Wrist-worn devices excel at heart rate tracking but stumble when estimating energy expenditure, and the gap reveals fundamental limits of co…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Products

Apple Pushes Smart Glasses to 2027 as Privacy Architecture Takes Center Stage

The company is exploring hardware configurations that may omit cameras entirely, signaling a different path from Meta's approach to wearable…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 5m
Startups

Midjourney Acquires Co-Star as AI Image Generator Expands Into Astrology Apps

The deal marks an unexpected pivot for the generative-image startup, which now owns a horoscope platform serving millions with NASA-sourced …

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

Meta Wrestles With Content Moderation as Smart Glasses Fuel Covert Filming

The company faces mounting pressure as its wearable cameras become tools for unwanted surveillance and harassment, prompting new policy inte…

Priya Nair ·   · 4m
Startups

Smartphone Makers Face Double-Digit Component Cost Jump

Qualcomm's upstream pressure exposes fragile supply chains and limited leverage for device makers navigating margin squeeze.…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Startups

Rivian Files Suit to Recover Tens of Millions From Unconstitutional Tariff Regime

The EV maker wants certainty it will be repaid for Trump-era import taxes as it races toward profitability with its R2 SUV…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 4m