Also in today’s newsletter, Trump pushes India to buy more US weapons, and SoftBank set to invest in robotics start-up

Point72 founder says drop that wiped almost $600bn from Nvidia shares was prompted by misinformation

Masayoshi Son bets on company building an artificial intelligence ‘brain’ for robots

Report by commission finds several foreign states have tried to destabilise the country

Fund that won famous Wall Street proxy war over oil major’s climate stance now backs natural gas to power AI

The impact of artificial intelligence on productivity could be epoch-making

Is China about to catch up with the US in the artificial intelligence race?

Distressed debt investor says asset managers and other companies should not have been hit by AI fears

De-fog, de-fluff and finesse your living space 

Country’s armed forces use gaming equipment to control attack drones against Ukrainian targets, says Brussels

CMA decision comes as the US tech giant and Amazon face potential probes into their dominance of the market

Lightspeed and SoftBank’s second Vision Fund among Helion’s new investors in latest funding round

UK broadcaster is launching premium model to combat decline of linear TV and ‘stagnant’ revenue streams

DeepSeek’s lower costs bode well for Keir Starmer, but government needs to be more open about its use of AI

Success of DeepSeek inspires confidence as latest products are pushed out ahead of lunar new year holiday

If it turns out the moat around US tech stocks is not as deep as investors had hoped, the AI fairytale will unravel

An adjustment, not a shock

Also in this newsletter: How Friedrich Merz’s migration proposals are shaking up the German election campaign

Billionaire investor says US stocks are in ‘very similar’ position as lead-up to internet bust at turn of millennium

Plus, takeover talks between Switzerland’s SGS and France’s Bureau Veritas fall apart, and junior lawyers pivot to private equity