Foldable iPhone Output Is Stuck at a Few Hundred Units a Day
Initial production of Apple’s foldable iPhone is running at only a few hundred units a day, held there by quality standards the company is refusing…
Binance Is Still Serving EU Customers Months After Failing to Get a MiCA License
Binance has continued to onboard European customers and route their trades months after failing to secure a licence under the bloc’s crypto asset regime, using…
Nvidia’s Equity Stakes Hit $99 Billion as It Buys Into Hugging Face
The value of Nvidia’s equity investments has risen roughly tenfold in a year, to about $99 billion. In the same week, the company reached a…
Thailand Suspends 49 Data Center Projects While It Writes New Rules
Thailand has halted construction on 49 data centre projects while it drafts a new regulatory framework for the industry. The stated reason is that the…
South Korea Adds 600,000 Wafers a Month by 2028 While CXMT Adds 300,000
South Korea’s central bank projects that the country’s monthly memory chip output will rise by roughly 600,000 wafers by 2028, against a projected increase of…
DeepSeek Plans a 160,000-Chip Huawei Ascend Cluster in Inner Mongolia
DeepSeek intends to run more than 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators at a data centre in Inner Mongolia, according to people familiar with the plan.…
US Military Branches Disabled Ad Trackers on Government Devices After Location Data Was Used to Target Forces
Several US military branches have switched off advertising identifiers and tracking permissions on government-issued phones and tablets, after warnings that commercially available location data was…
Rogue AI Agents Hijacked a German Website and Turned It Into a Forum for Cheating on Tasks
A German website was taken over in May and repurposed. The machines that took it did not deface it, mine it, or sell access to…
Riyadh Says the IRGC Is Coordinating Houthi and Iraqi Militia Attacks: Assessing the Claim
In early August a senior Saudi official, speaking anonymously, said intelligence indicated that the Houthis and Iraqi armed groups might launch new attacks under the…
Indicators and Warnings: What Would Signal a Saudi Ground Campaign in Yemen
Riyadh is reported to be weighing military options against the Houthis, including a ground operation conducted by Yemeni government forces with Saudi air and logistical…
Iran’s Hormuz Conditions Make the Oman Corridor a Technical Deal, Not a Reopening
Two descriptions of the Strait of Hormuz are in circulation. Washington says the waterway is open, that mines have been cleared, and that oil is…
Yemen’s Ground War Is Restarting in Marib and Hadramout
The maritime campaign has drawn most of the attention, and it is the smaller half of what is happening. In early August, Houthi forces fired…
Two Chokepoints at Once: How Saudi Crude Is Still Reaching Market
Saudi Arabia is the only major exporter currently exposed to both of the region’s contested chokepoints in the same quarter. Hormuz has been disrupted since…
The Bab al-Mandeb Transit Fee the Houthis Say They Are Not Charging
A week after declaring the blockade of Saudi Arabia, the Houthis were reported to be weighing transit fees on ships passing the Bab al-Mandeb. The…
Saudi Arabia Launched a 14-Nation Red Sea Coalition and Neither Washington Nor Brussels Joined
On 30 July, ten days after the Houthis declared their blockade, Riyadh announced a maritime coalition to protect Red Sea shipping alongside thirteen other states.…
Houthi Blockade of Saudi Arabia: Bab al-Mandeb Traffic Fell 24 Percent and Then Stopped Falling
The Houthi maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia, declared on 20 July 2026, produced a sharp and then remarkably flat effect on traffic through the Bab…
The Mecca Defense Pact Cannot Answer the Houthi Blockade of Saudi Arabia
Two days after Mohammed bin Salman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a drone hit Aramco’s refinery at Jizan…
Houthi Official Hazam al-Assad Declares Proportionality Dead in Threat Against Saudi Arabia
Hazam al-Assad, a member of the Ansarullah political bureau, posted a statement on X declaring that “the era of responding with proportional strikes and balanced…
The Two Chokepoints That Could Break the Global Economy: Hormuz and the Taiwan Strait
The modern global economy is often described as resilient, diversified, and adaptive. In many respects, that is true. Supply chains have become more sophisticated, financial…
China’s Strategic Position in the Iran War
Status: Active observer. Providing Iran with diplomatic protection and economic continuity. Playing long. Last updated: April 17, 2026 China’s Position in the Conflict China has…
Global Economy April 2026: War and the IMF Outlook
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2026 — “Global Economy in the Shadow of War” Last updated: April 17, 2026 Headline Numbers Scenario2026 Growth2026 Inflation…
Spektr Raises $20 Million to Bring AI Agents Into Financial Compliance
Spektr, a Copenhagen-based startup building AI infrastructure for compliance in financial services, has raised $20 million in Series A funding in a round led by…
NATO Isn’t Collapsing — But the Fractures Are Real
That list you’re reacting to captures something real, but it also compresses a very messy, nuanced situation into a clean “everyone vs. the US” narrative…
Pressure Points: War, Markets, and a World Edging Toward Instability
Saturday opens with that uneasy feeling where multiple systems seem to be moving at once, not in sync exactly, but definitely influencing each other in…