US-China Tech War Escalates Amid TikTok Deal, AI Arms Race, and H-1B Visa Battles.

"The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control." - Epictetus

⚡ Tech News

• TikTok Deal Gives Americans 6 of 7 Board Seats, White House Says - Bloomberg.com
• ‘Stargate of China’ plan emerges to challenge US as AI superpower - Financial Times
• Trump, H-1B Visas, Tech, and Foreign Governments - Cnbc.com
• Oxford University gives students access to AI platform - BBC
• Startup Leaders Warn of New $100K H-1B Visa Fee - Geekwire.com
• Trump's stance on H-1B Visas - Axios.com
• From shopping carts to superchips: Alibaba rediscovers edge with bold billion-dollar AI pivot - CNBC
• Chrome: The browser you love, reimagined with AI - The Keyword
• Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper - WIRED
• Their teenage sons died by suicide. Now, they are sounding an alarm about AI chatbots - NPR
• US, China Near TikTok Deal - Axios.com
• The AI boom is great for stocks, not so much for jobs - Axios
• British AI startup beats humans in international forecasting competition - The Guardian
• Starmer’s AI drive ‘will lead to hosepipe bans’ - Yahoo
• iPhone Air Teardown - Ifixit.com
• The Useful Idiots of AI Doomsaying - The Atlantic

📈 Market News

• Dow, S&P 500 close at fresh records, log big gains for the week after Fed rate cut: Live updates - CNBC
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• Nikkei: ¥45,045.81 (-0.57%)