Apple launches $299 HomeView hub alongside new smart home range
Apple launches $299 HomeView hub alongside new smart home range

Apple has launched HomeView, a $299 smart display built around Siri AI, with shipping from 13 November in eight markets. The European Union is not one of them, because Siri AI is still blocked on iOS there. Apple has launched HomeView, a $299 smart dis…

Nvidia plans $2B in European AI deals in the next week
Nvidia plans $2B in European AI deals in the next week

Jensen Huang says Nvidia will announce $2B of European investments within a week, on top of $8B over the past year, and named four French startups in Paris. Nvidia committed more than $40B to AI equity in the first four months of this year alone. Jense…

Data centre firms say the AI bottleneck is now power and labour
Data centre firms say the AI bottleneck is now power and labour

Executives from NTT Data, Brookfield and Infosys say electricity and skilled labour, not chips, now limit how fast AI data centres get built. In Europe the binding constraint is worse, with grid connections in congested markets running to ten years. Th…

Microsoft is on track for its first record close in a year
Microsoft is on track for its first record close in a year

Microsoft is on pace for its first record close since October 2025, having gained more than 50% from a June low and added roughly $1.5T in market value. The AI-disruption panic that caused the fall also hit SAP, which has not recovered. Microsoft is on…

Anthropic warns of self-replicating AI worm threat that doesn’t need data centers to self-improve and spread
Anthropic warns of self-replicating AI worm threat that doesn’t need data centers to self-improve and spread

Anthropic’s paper establishes conceptual model capabilities, but doesn’t quite demonstrate a real threat until models improve further.

NYT, AFP and Economist join SPUR coalition on AI use of news
NYT, AFP and Economist join SPUR coalition on AI use of news

The New York Times, Agence France-Presse, and The Economist have joined a coalition that wants AI companies to stop using news without permission, the group said on Monday. The coalition, known as SPUR Standards for Publisher Usage Rights, has now reac…

AI causes uproar in mathematics as experts warn against sharing research with LLMs after OpenAI shares 722 manuscripts and proofs

Last week, OpenAI shared over 400 results for longstanding mathematical formulas that have troubled humans for decades; now researchers say it could take years for humans to validate and prove all the AI-driven work

Palantir CTO says the Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI
Palantir CTO says the Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI

The Pentagon has already replaced Anthropic’s AI models, with no operational impact, Palantir’s chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, said on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. “It’s already been replaced,” Sankar said. The Pentagon stopped using Anthr…

Batam residents protest as data centres grow and their taps run dry
Batam residents protest as data centres grow and their taps run dry

Hundreds of people in Batam, an Indonesian island near Singapore, have protested outside a data centre park. They say their homes have had no running water for months while the facilities have kept their servers cool, the BBC reported. The protest took…

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likens many AI investors to casino gamblers
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likens many AI investors to casino gamblers

Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan compared many AI investors to gamblers who have little idea what they are betting on. He spoke on Monday at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, Bloomberg reported. “A lot of investors have no clue what…