China Engineering out of Dutch Dependency in SemiCons

China has developed its own "immersion deep ultraviolet" (DUV) lithography machines.  Immersion DUV machines are used in the chip manufacturing process - controlled by one company, Holland's ASML ("Changing the World One Nanometre at a Time").

Accenture to Acquire Faculty, Gets AI Talent Boost

Accenture is acquiring Faculty, a UK-based AI services company, for over $1bn.  

Faculty emphasises safe and ethical AI systems build with customer collaboration, and profiles a number of clients on its website including the UK's National Health Service.

CEO of Faculty, Marc Warner, will become CTO of Accenture. 

Accenture will acquire 400 AI native professionals, including data scientists and AI engineers.

Tesla in Talks to Invest in India

The EV market in India boasts three major players, Tata Motors, with its Nexon EV Model (whose engine is developed by Tata and Austrian firm AVL), MG Motors (Chinese-owned brand since 2005) and BYD. Tesla has strong growth ambitions aiming to sell 20 million cars globally by 2030 and building cars in India for the local market and export would go some way to achieving these goals. It has faced challenges expanding its Shanghai base where it operates a Gigafactory (its first overseas Gigafactory) due to Musk's adjacent involvement in SpaceX and potential military implications of its Starlink satellite network which currently has 4,000 satellites in low earth orbit.