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SpaceX's $8B spectrum deal shakes telecom stocks
SpaceX's purchase of US mobile spectrum sent AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile shares tumbling, exposing how vulnerable telecom stocks are to new competition.
Ana-Maria Stanciuc · 1m
Windows 11 claims 20% speed boost on budget PCs
Microsoft says months of optimisation make Windows 11 far more responsive, especially on machines with 8GB of RAM. Independent testing found no such gains.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
Amazon launches Bee recording devices with monthly fee
Amazon releases two wearable recorders and puts the software behind a paywall, but skips Europe over privacy laws.
Darius Popa · 1m
Google launches Universal Cart, but not in Europe
Google's new shopping feature works in Search and Gemini across the US, Canada, Australia and UK. The EU is conspicuously absent after a €890M fine.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
Apple Intelligence finally reaches China in December
Apple will launch its AI features in mainland China in December with iOS 27.3, two years after the US, but without the rebuilt Siri and with strict government controls.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
OpenAI puts compute under xAI veteran Ruddarraju
Uday Ruddarraju, who ran infrastructure at Elon Musk's xAI, takes over OpenAI's data centre and compute operations as Sachin Katti steps back to advise.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
OpenAI engineer charged over spy device had booked escape
Abdulrahman Alfozan, arrested for planting hidden recording devices at OpenAI, had one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia booked for three days after his arrest.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
Marina Segal's cloud that says no
Tamnoon's CEO argues cloud security spent a decade finding problems it never fixed. Her company publishes what its machine refuses to do.
Veronika Furs · 3m
What Europe's customer contact event revealed about AI
At Customer Contact Week Europe 2026, 700 attendees showed AI has moved from niche to central, but organisations worry about risk and bringing teams along.
Mariam Kvitsiani · 1m
OpenAI engineer arrested over hidden listening device
An engineer at OpenAI has been charged with planting recording devices in the company's San Francisco office, including one in an executive conference room.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
Zuckerberg admits Meta bet $200B on AI in the dark
Meta's CEO says the company committed up to $200 billion to AI infrastructure without knowing if it would work, as free cash flow collapsed 91 percent.
Cristian Dina · 1m
Broadcom CEO warns AI investors are gambling blind
Hock Tan says most companies waste money on AI without understanding what they are doing, and capital may become the biggest constraint on the technology's growth.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
Pentagon ditches Anthropic AI without disruption
Palantir's CTO says the Department of Defense has already replaced Anthropic's Claude models with alternatives from xAI, OpenAI and Google.
Alina Maria Stan · 1m
Clueso raises $10M to challenge Synthesia in AI video
San Francisco startup Clueso has raised ten million dollars to automate corporate video production, entering a market dominated by London-based Synthesia.
Sandra Hinshelwood · 1m
Major news outlets join AI copyright coalition
The New York Times, AFP and The Economist have joined SPUR, a group of over 80 publishers fighting for payment when AI systems use their work.
Ana-Maria Stanciuc · 1m
Batam's taps run dry as data centres boom
Residents of an Indonesian island protest months without water while data centres use reservoirs to cool servers.
Ana-Maria Stanciuc · 1m
Most teams can't name their company's priorities
A study of 180 leaders found 86% say their people cannot name top priorities. The problem is not communication, it's broken infrastructure.
Steven Macdonald · 2m
TikTok CEO expects AI breakthrough in physics and biotech
Shou Chew says artificial intelligence will deliver major scientific advances within two to three years, but warns of cybersecurity risks.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
AI spending is propping up global growth at 3%, IMF warns
The IMF says artificial intelligence infrastructure investment is sustaining world economic growth, but the technology poses risks to jobs and inequality.
Alina Maria Stan · 1m
Cage refuses Amazon's AI waiver for cancelled Spider-Noir
Nicolas Cage rejected an artificial intelligence waiver from Amazon for his Prime Video series and says he probably won't work with the studio again.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
Microsoft releases decision model on Alibaba's Qwen
Microsoft-Decision-1 picks between fixed options instead of generating text, built on Alibaba's open-weight model and priced at $0.042 per million input tokens.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
Wayve's Kendall: AI driving will be as essential as seatbelts
The autonomous driving startup's chief executive says AI systems should become mandatory safety equipment in all cars, starting with supervised driving in 2028.
Darius Popa · 1m
Super Micro contractor pleads guilty to AI server smuggling
A fixer for the server maker admitted to diverting two point five billion dollars of US AI chips to China in violation of export controls.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
Rwanda set to host Africa's first F1 race since 1993
Formula 1 is reportedly heading to Rwanda in 2030 for the continent's first Grand Prix in over three decades, though no official confirmation has been made.
Darius Popa · 1m
Anthropic's Claude sent fake murder tip to police
An AI model submitted a false tip to Philadelphia Police during testing, one of four types of unintended actions Anthropic disclosed to the White House.
Alina Maria Stan · 1m
Ramp hits $60bn valuation in $1.85bn round
Fintech startup Ramp raised $1.85bn at a $60bn valuation, cementing its lead in the corporate spending space.
Cristian Dina · 1m
Salesforce renames AIForce to SIForce
Marc Benioff follows Trump's push to replace artificial intelligence with super intelligence terminology.
Alina Maria Stan · 1m
AI data centre debt could spark wave of lawsuits
A Quinn Emanuel memo warns that fast-depreciating GPU collateral could trigger cascading defaults across linked AI infrastructure deals.
Alina Maria Stan · 1m
Cirrus Logic bid for Synaptics to break Onsemi deal
Chipmaker Cirrus Logic made a surprise cash and stock offer for Synaptics last month, prompting Onsemi to sweeten its all-stock deal to all cash.
Darius Popa · 1m
Nvidia's comms chief exits after four months
Anna Soellner, who joined Nvidia's communications team around June, has left the role. The reason is unclear.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
Colao: Europe's AI rules are broken, but not all the same way
Vittorio Colao, vice chairman at General Atlantic, says EU regulation is holding back AI development unevenly across different rules.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
Tesla plant emissions plan alarms nearby school parents
Parents at an elementary school near Tesla's Fremont factory question a plan to modify emission limits, citing a potential thirteenfold rise in suspended particles.
Alina Maria Stan · 1m
Europe's venture funds now hold 15 unicorns
The European Investment Bank's Tech Champions Initiative has backed 12 funds managing nearly four billion euros, keeping scaled startups on the continent.
Cristian Dina · 1m
AI won't fix America's debt, Guardian analysis argues
Even rapid AI-driven growth would not solve the US deficit because capital gains are taxed less than wages, and tech firms need massive returns to justify their spending.
Darius Popa · 1m
US targets 20 firms over AI server power patents
The International Trade Commission investigates Foxconn, Luxshare and others for allegedly infringing Vicor's power-system patents used in high-end AI servers.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
Trump AI Liability Push Leaves Rogue-Agent Blame Unclear
White House pushes AI company accountability but liability for rogue agents remains ambiguous.
Ana-Maria Stanciuc · 1m
Turkey bans social media for under-15s from November
Turkey will block children under 15 from social media platforms starting 1 November, with strict controls for teens aged 15 to 17.
Alina Maria Stan · 1m
UK must build its own AI or risk foreign cutoff
The head of the Alan Turing Institute warns Britain cannot depend on foreign AI systems that could be switched off without notice.
Alina Maria Stan · 1m
Trump Awards Tech Leaders National Medals
Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su, Brin, Dell and Nadella National Medals of Science and Technology.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
India rebukes Vance over H-1B visa worker comments
India's foreign ministry calls US Vice President JD Vance's description of foreign workers as "indentured servants" deeply offensive, as the Labor Department suspends eight companies from the PERM green card programme.
Alina Maria Stan · 1m
Anthropic enlists security firms to defend critical infrastructure
Anthropic launches a program pairing its Claude AI with major security companies to protect power grids, water utilities and transport networks from cyber attack.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m
Vesta raises $30M for AI mortgage agents
The startup has raised $30M to expand AI agents handling mortgage underwriting, but Europe's AI Act and GDPR already restrict automated lending decisions.
Ana-Maria Stanciuc · 1m
micro1 commits $1bn to company data for AI agents
AI training company micro1 will spend $1bn over 12 months buying operational data from companies, financed by Citi and Hercules Capital.
Ana Maria Constantin · 1m