Microsoft told Google it was overreacting in 2010. It has spent five years quietly leaving China
Microsoft told Google it was overreacting in 2010. It has spent five years quietly leaving China

Corporate filings show the closures, Reuters reported in an exclusive. The revenue figure is the one that explains the rest. China accounted for 1.5% of global revenue as of 2024. Microsoft has no current plan to exit. It has simply stopped growing the…

Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run
Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run

The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account. OpenAI is the anchor. Coller Capital is the lead b…

Meta removed 756,000 Australian accounts. Its real ask is that Apple does the checking
Meta removed 756,000 Australian accounts. Its real ask is that Apple does the checking

Representatives of Meta, TikTok, Google and Snap give evidence to an Australian parliamentary inquiry on Friday, Reuters reported. Regulators and government officials appear too. Meta went first, and it went alone. On Wednesday it published its enforce…

Nvidia Jetson chip found in Russian cruise missile, Ukraine claims — presence in S-71 ‘Monochrome’ weapon may indicate use of AI tech

Ukraine intelligence claims that Russia’s latest S-71 ‘Monochrome’ cruise missiles use Nvidia’s Jetson Orin NX modules with AI capabilities, allegedly for terminal guidance.

A Massachusetts teen is charged with killing his mother and brother, and prosecutors point to ChatGPT
A Massachusetts teen is charged with killing his mother and brother, and prosecutors point to ChatGPT

A 17-year-old in Massachusetts has been charged with murdering his mother and younger brother, and prosecutors say that in the period before the deaths he had used ChatGPT to explore what they described as fantasy scenarios about killing his family. It…

Weather drones are filling the data blind spot that armies and traders both need
Weather drones are filling the data blind spot that armies and traders both need

The artificial-intelligence weather boom has a dirty secret. For all the talk of models that see storms days ahead, an AI forecaster is only as good as the observations that feed it, and lately those have run thin. According to Bloomberg, drones are no…

Writer bets on cheaper AI agents with Palmyra X6 and a leaner harness
Writer bets on cheaper AI agents with Palmyra X6 and a leaner harness

Writer, the enterprise AI company, has launched Palmyra X6, its new flagship model, alongside an upgraded “harness” built to do something the industry has been curiously reluctant to promise: spend fewer tokens. The model is a post-training variation o…

Databricks Closes $5 Billion Round at $190 Billion Valuation
Databricks Closes $5 Billion Round at $190 Billion Valuation

Databricks has closed a $5bn round at a $190bn valuation, led by Coatue, with revenue run-rate past $7bn and growth above 80% year on year. That is a 42% valuation increase in six months, and it comes after chief executive Ali Ghodsi called 2026 a bad …

Google’s cheap model is now two versions ahead of its flagship
Google’s cheap model is now two versions ahead of its flagship

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash with sharp gains on coding benchmarks and introductory pricing of $0.75 per million input tokens. Gemini 3.5 Pro remains months behind schedule, and Google will not say whether it is still coming. Google has release…

Volvo’s new app grades your driving and sends the grade to your insurer
Volvo’s new app grades your driving and sends the grade to your insurer

Volvo is launching Safety Coach, an optional app that scores braking, acceleration and cornering, with high scorers offered cheaper usage-based insurance through Volvia. It starts in Sweden and Norway this month, with the United States and other Europe…