UK digital infrastructure investment hit £11.2bn in 2025
Britain’s businesses put £11.2bn into digital infrastructure last year, roughly three times what the official measure had been reporting. The jump in UK digital infrastructure inv…
Liner raises $36.1M to take its evidence-first AI search to enterprise customers
Liner, a South Korean AI search startup, has raised $36.1 million in Series C funding as it seeks to turn its consumer research platform used by millions into an enterprise AI bus…
China called off its ice-hunting Moon shot a day before launch
China called off its most ambitious Moon mission the day before it was due to fly. The announcement runs to a single sentence. Chang’e 7 does not meet the conditions for launch, t…
An Australian court has found eHarmony misled users over what its memberships cost
Australia’s Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships, in a case the competition regulator brought after receiving …
Southeast Asia is planning four times the data centre capacity it runs
Southeast Asia has 306 data centres running and 173 more in the pipeline, according to figures published on Tuesday. The capacity being planned is nearly four times what is alread…
Fresh from €1.2bn, NEURA buys its second company in eleven days
NEURA Robotics is buying a company that makes cleaning robots, and says it wants to replace their brains. The German firm is acquiring 100% of Adlatus Robotics, an Ulm maker of au…
Oura is seeking up to $3bn in an IPO that would value it above $16bn
Oura is targeting a September listing that would raise up to $3bn and value the smart ring maker at more than $16bn, according to Bloomberg, several months after the Finnish compa…
Meta hired Luke Metz seven months after OpenAI hired him back
Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, seven months after rejoining OpenAI. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the hire to Axios. Ina Fried reported it on Mond…
Lambda is raising up to $3bn before an IPO, months after borrowing $917m for chips
Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3bn in pre-IPO financing at a valuation of $12bn or more, according to Bloomberg, as the Nvidia-backed cloud provider prepares for a listing exp…
Alibaba shares fell 8.4%. Then Joe Tsai and Eddie Wu went shopping
Alibaba’s two most senior executives bought about $15.3m of their own company’s shares on Monday. The stock had just fallen further than at any point in more than a year. Chairman…
Trump says refusing a data centre is a mistake. Abbott disagrees
Texas governor Greg Abbott says data centre companies brought the backlash on themselves. “They basically dug their own grave for the problem that’s been caused for them,” he told…
MH Ventures and Mapleblock Capital co-lead $3M investment in Oro to scale agentic finance
For the better half of the last three years, the prevalence of AI in finance had been largely relegated to a chatbot bolted onto a dashboard. Its capabilities were limited to simp…
Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after the IPO, a disclosure shows
Donald Trump bought up to $50,000 of SpaceX stock on 23 June, roughly a fortnight after the company completed the largest initial public offering in history, according to a financ…
Nine charged in Taiwan over 130 Nvidia B300 servers bound for China
Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted nine people over the alleged illegal export of high-end AI servers to China, among them an employee of Nvidia’s Taiwan operation and two from S…
The UK and Ukraine have signed a declaration on AI-enabled military capabilities
Ukraine and the United Kingdom have signed a joint declaration on artificial intelligence partnership covering the development and deployment of AI-enabled military capabilities, …
Apple has a Mac mini ready, and it may be Tim Cook’s last product
Apple is preparing to release a new Mac mini within days, ahead of its September iPhone event, according to a Bloomberg report that also puts AirPods 5 at that event and an OLED i…
Australia is preparing to impose its data centre energy rules over Queensland’s objection
The Australian government intends to impose national energy standards on AI data centres at this week’s National Cabinet meeting even though Queensland will not agree to them, a s…
Sam Altman says AI still has not had its iPhone moment
Sam Altman says the industry has been too ambitious on AI timelines. He counts himself among the people who got it wrong. The OpenAI chief executive said so to the podcaster David…
Dr Dre says only people who struggle to create are scared of AI
Dr Dre says he is using AI in the studio, and that he does not see it as a threat. The producer said so in an interview with the New York Times, published on Sunday. His longtime …
How Google, Microsoft and OpenAI came to shape what US children learn
On a humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, Microsoft representatives waited as about 200 teachers filed into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan. The subject was AI chatbots.…
The 28-year fight over who owns Linux is nearly over
A US appeals court has thrown out the last live claim in the long fight over who owns Linux. Simon Sharwood reported the ruling for The Register on Sunday. The dispute began in 19…
India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones
Airbound's ultra-lightweight approach to drone delivery has attracted backing from Greenoaks, DoorDash, and Silicon Valley investor Lachy Groom.
Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC
The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversify your portfolio."
Oura is reportedly eyeing a September IPO that could value it at more than $16B
We all knew it was coming. The expected valuation may surprise, though.