Developing storylines
the narratives behind the headlines
- •A federal judge blocks the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply-chain risk, ruling the move illegal and potentially costing the company billions in contracts.
- •ChangXin Memory Technologies sues the Pentagon to overturn its designation as a Chinese military company, mirroring similar challenges from Yangtze Memory, WuXi AppTec and Alibaba.

- •Gatik secures a $200 million Series D led by the Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies to scale driverless middle-mile freight delivery for retailers like Walmart and PepsiCo.
- •Hyundai plans to launch an Ioniq 5-based robotaxi in partnership with Waymo this year as part of a broader push into autonomous and software-defined vehicles.