EU Hits Google with AI Probe, Escalating Tech War with US
Key Points The European Union is cracking down on Big Tech again, this time launching an antitrust probe into Google over its artificial intelligence strategy.
Key Points The European Union is cracking down on Big Tech again, this time launching an antitrust probe into Google over its artificial intelligence strategy.
Key Points The New York Times is taking the AI startup Perplexity to court, accusing it of illegally copying millions of its articles to power
Key Points The head of one of Europe’s biggest tech companies, SAP, says the continent is falling behind in the global artificial intelligence race due
Key Points At Amazon’s massive cloud computing conference in Las Vegas this week, the biggest lines aren’t for the expert panels on data lakes or
Key Points Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump on Wednesday to discuss relaxing U.S. restrictions on the sale of the company’s powerful
Key Points A new report from the Future of Life Institute is calling out major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Meta for having
Key Points South Korea’s e-commerce leader, Coupang, is now under investigation after suffering the country’s worst data breach in more than a decade. The personal
Key Points Coupang, South Korea’s biggest online retailer, issued a public apology on Sunday after a huge data breach exposed the personal information of 33.7
Key Points Archaeologists are getting a high-tech helping hand to rebuild Pompeii’s shattered history. A new robotic system is learning how to piece together ancient
Key Points France’s competition regulator on Thursday dismissed an antitrust complaint filed by local search engine Qwant against Microsoft. Qwant had accused the American tech
Key Points Europe is stepping up its game in the global race for the next generation of computing power. IQM Quantum Computers, a leading player
Key Points Singapore authorities are tightening the leash on tech giants to protect citizens from digital fraud. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced
Key Points In southern China, the future is buzzing overhead. An oval craft from EHang hovers above Guangzhou, testing a flying taxi service that once
Key Points Foxconn Chairman Young Liu announced on Friday that the company can now manufacture 1,000 artificial intelligence racks per week, and he expects that
Key Points Alphabet’s Google opened a new AI infrastructure hardware engineering center in Taiwan on Thursday. This is the company’s largest such facility outside of
Key Points The Dutch government has returned control of semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia to its Chinese owner, Wingtech Technology. This move is a major step toward
Key Points Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly known as Twitter), was down for thousands of users in the United States on Tuesday morning.
Key Points The French utility company EDF and OpCore, a joint venture between the telecoms group Iliad and InfraVia Capital Partners, have entered into exclusive
Key Points The CEO of ASML, the Dutch giant that makes chip-manufacturing equipment, said the company has not been affected by the recent tensions between
Key Points Andy Konwinski, a co-founder of Databricks and the AI firm Laude, is worried that the U.S. is losing its top spot in AI
Key Points Greek authorities have arrested a 38-year-old man as part of a Europol-led crackdown on international cybercrime. The operation, known as “Operation Endgame,” dismantled
Key Points Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has completed its second flight, according to a report from The Washington Post. The rocket lifted off from
Key Points The Chinese tech giant Baidu announced two new semiconductors for artificial intelligence on Thursday. The company says these new chips will provide Chinese
Key Points Chevron is stepping into a new line of business, announcing that it will build its first project to provide natural gas-fired power directly
Key Points IBM announced on Wednesday that it has built a new experimental quantum computing chip called “Loon.” The company says this new chip proves
Key Points A German court ruled in favor of the country’s music rights society, GEMA, on Tuesday in a major copyright case against the U.S.
Key Points Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest chipmaker, reported slower growth in its monthly revenue, creating some uncertainty about how long the
Key Points Blue Origin has pushed back the second flight of its New Glenn rocket. The launch, which was scheduled for Sunday afternoon, was supposed
Key Points Meta Platforms announced on Friday that it will invest a staggering $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure and jobs over the next three years.
Key Points The Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) developer DeepSeek made a rare public appearance this week, nearly a year after it became a global sensation.
Key Points Google is planning to build a large artificial intelligence data center on Australia’s remote Christmas Island, located in the Indian Ocean. This move
Key Points Apple is reportedly planning to use a massive 1.2 trillion-parameter artificial intelligence model developed by Google to power a significant overhaul of its
Key Points The Chinese government has issued new guidance requiring that data center projects receiving state funding use only domestically made artificial intelligence chips, according
Key Points An Indian appeals court on Tuesday reversed a five-year ban that had stopped Meta-owned WhatsApp from sharing user data with other Meta companies
Key Points Cisco Systems launched a new computing device on Monday designed to run artificial intelligence workloads right where the action is—in local settings like
Key Points Chinese President Xi Jinping took center stage at a meeting of APEC leaders on Saturday, where he pushed a proposal for a global