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Microsoft is lobbying the Trump administration to block a proposed ban on Chinese data center technology, and the stakes are significant. The company argues the restrictions could disrupt global supply chains and slow down American AI infrastructure at a moment when the race for compute is intensifying. It's a rare case of a major US tech firm pushing back against trade hawks on national security grounds.
Shifting to Europe, a company called Domyn has published details on training a one-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model using EU public infrastructure. That's a genuinely large model by any measure, and the fact that it ran on publicly funded compute raises pointed questions about who should own the resulting capabilities and whether open infrastructure can compete with the hyperscalers.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of Wall Street and crypto, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation — the firm that quietly settles most US financial trades — says it will bring tokenized stocks and treasuries to the Solana blockchain in two thousand twenty seven. That's a significant institutional endorsement for a network that has spent years trying to shed its volatile reputation.
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