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China is ending a 10-year consumption tax exemption on lithium batteries (2% from September, 4% from 2027) and solar cells. Sodium and solid-state stay exempt.

ASML's 45,000 employees will receive a one-time 20,000 share award that vests in 2030. Samsung, SK Hynix, and TSMC have made similar payouts this year.

SAP closed its acquisition of Prior Labs, maker of TabPFN, a foundation model for structured data. A EUR 1bn-plus bet on tabular AI and a rare European win.

Khosla-backed Bunkerhill Health lets hospitals build their own clinical AI agents. At one health system, 20+ are live, triaging and routing patients.

Eoptolink, which makes the optical transceivers wiring AI data centres for Google and Amazon, filed for a Hong Kong listing of up to $5bn after 236% profit growth.

Moonshot's Kimi K3 helped trigger a global tech rout, but weak earnings and the Iran war did much of it. The real fear is US AI capex.

AI browsers like Ace embed assistance into browsing, helping users summarize content, compare tabs, and manage everyday online tasks without switching tools.

China's BrainCo unveiled a brain-to-robot platform at WAIC that lets people control robots by thought alone, via an EEG headset, in under 200ms.

CoinDesk Research traces crypto exchange evolution through five phases as Binance marks nine years and 316 million users with a super-app strategy.

a16z has led a $20M seed in Runta, which is rebuilding AI agent infrastructure so companies can run agents safely with sandboxes and guardrails.