Launches, companies and the rules shaping technology.
The business and policy of technology: who is launching what, who is buying whom, what regulators are doing about it, and how any of it reaches people. This page covers company announcements and the strategy behind them, pricing and availability, legal and regulatory decisions, and the rules now being written for AI in India, the EU and elsewhere. These stories decide what you can actually use, at what price, under what conditions — which makes them worth following even when the underlying technology is not new.
Two of the biggest patent holders in mobile technology have agreed to stop charging each other for the same ideas. Huawei said on 5 October 2026 that it and Qualcomm had signed a multi-year licence under which each may use the other's inventions in 5G, computing, AI and networking, and that Qualcomm is separately buying a set of Huawei's US patents in those same areas. No money was mentioned. Huawei used the announcement to point at polar codes, a way of packing data into a radio signal close to the theoretical limit, which it helped push into the 4G and 5G standards.
NVIDIA has announced fellowships of up to $60,000, with applications open until 30 October 2026. The 2027–2028 graduate fellowships are open worldwide to PhD students who have finished at least their first year, in areas including AI, robotics, graphics and high-performance computing. Fellows are required to complete a summer 2027 internship at an NVIDIA research office.
References: NVIDIA blog: applications open
Anthropic will spend $100 million to train 10,000 "Frontier Deployed Engineers" by the end of 2027, through a programme that includes a 12-week residency leading real Claude projects. Candidates are nominated by their employers, and the first cohorts run in San Francisco, New York and London.
References: Anthropic: Claude Frontier Academy · CNBC