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SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France. It’s Son’s biggest European bet.

AI is killing the summer internship. The entry-level pipeline that built careers is breaking.

The hybrid model: why the smartest finance teams aren’t going all-in on AI

NATO just formalised cybersecurity partnerships with Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET

Capchase raises $200 million to replace the banks slowing down enterprise tech deals

Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions

Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google

Reallusion bets that 3D artists directing AI models will beat text prompts for professional filmmaking

The AI security gap nobody wants to admit is already here

The SEO conference circuit in 2026 is one long argument about what comes next

HP pushed a critical BIOS update through Windows Update. It bricked its most expensive laptops.

Two Amazon data centres in the UAE were hit by drones. The Gulf’s AI ambitions are being tested.

Stellantis wants to build Chinese EVs in Canada and Mexico. Just not in the US.

DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.

Xiaomi’s CEO admitted his SUV wasn’t cheap enough to beat Tesla. Then he launched one that is.

The Rise of LLMs Is Not an Accident

UN draft protocol would expand nations’ right to tax tech giants

LinkedIn is finally cracking down on AI slop, and the feed might actually become readable again

Europe’s EV sales are surging as the Iran war sends petrol prices through the roof

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash doesn’t just write code, it builds entire operating systems

Google partners with Warby Parker and Gentle Monster for Gemini-powered smart glasses

Grafana Labs refuses ransom after hackers steal already-open-source code

Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI

Asus ROG and Xreal built the first 240Hz AR gaming glasses. They cost $849 and ship in June.

The man who put a Roomba in every home wants to replace your dog with a plush robot

Chinese parts already power American cars, and that’s exactly why Congress is panicking

Anthropic and the Gates Foundation are betting $200 million that AI can do more than make money

Eighteen48 raises EUR175 million to back the private equity deals no one else sees

Carta acquires a law firm and bets the future of private capital runs on a single platform

66% of women felt more prepared for puberty than perimenopause. Flo Health is betting it can fix that.

Graphon AI exits stealth with $8.3M to build the data layer that LLMs are missing

US clears H200 sales to 10 Chinese firms, but not a single chip has shipped

Software engineering’s bottleneck is no longer code

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?

GM is firing 600 IT workers and hiring AI engineers. It calls it transformation, not termination.

Expanding pathways to opportunity through apprenticeship degrees in a changing workforce landscape

ZoomInfo beat earnings, cut 600 jobs, and lost 29 per cent of its stock price. Its database is being repriced by AI.

Lodestellar is a €7 EPD quality tool helping manufacturers win multi-million euro tenders

SoftBank to manufacture large-scale batteries for AI data centres at former Sharp plant

Why LaceLocker® believes the next breakthrough in wearables may begin beneath the laces

Trump Media reports $405.9m Q1 loss, almost entirely from crypto markdowns

The Pentagon published 162 UFO files on war.gov/ufo. Two-thirds are redacted. The government says it is being transparent.

Uber’s robotaxi partner crashed 16 times in four months. The regulator called it “excessively assertive and insufficiently capable.”

Sony forecasts 11% profit lift and $3.2bn buyback as music and sensors offset PS5 memory shock

The Thai end of the Supermicro chip-smuggling case has a name, and it sits inside Bangkok’s national AI plan

Jeff Bezos’s representative just left the board of a startup that raised $1.4 billion on his name. The first truck has not been built.

Tesla trademarked a supercar badge for a car it promised nine years ago. The logo is the most tangible thing about the Roadster.

Google is not building a consultancy. It is writing a licensing agreement. That may be the smarter play.

Supreme Court refuses to pause the order holding Apple in contempt in the Epic case

In April 2025, Intel was trading at $18. Fourteen months later it hit an all-time high. The turnaround was not built by Intel alone.

GameStop wants to buy eBay for $55.5 billion. Its own revenue fell 27 per cent last year.