Liang Wenfeng is now the wealthiest founder in artificial intelligence, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which revalued his stake in DeepSeek on 13 July and added roughly $19bn to his fortune overnight. His net worth is put at about $36bn…
A Helsinki lab barely a year old, bankrolled by Nokia and the Finnish state, is now writing battlefield software with two defence ministries. The technology matters less than who controls it. On the last day of June, officials from Finland’s Ministry o…
“Every year $5 trillion, or 800 trillion yen, you might think that’s a lie, but I am confident that’s what it will cost.” That was Masayoshi Son on Tuesday, at SoftBank’s annual corporate conference in Tokyo, telling the room what building artificial i…
The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data center crossed with an ice cream factory. Inside will be some 100 stainless-steel cabinets, each about six feet tall and connected to a supply of liquid helium that keeps them only a few degrees above absolute zero.…
The White House is preparing an event, expected within weeks, at which electric utilities, the companies that build and run data centres for Big Tech, and governors of the states hosting the biggest buildouts will be asked to promise that none of this …
The meeting was a technology all-hands, held on Monday, and the phrase the company used afterwards was “a small number of roles”. The number an employee who attended gave to Reuters was up to 500. Thomson Reuters, the Canadian content and technology gr…
Prolo, an AI-powered procurement platform helpingsmall and medium-sized construction firms source materials, equipment andlabour at competitive market rates, has secured £4.2 million in seed funding. …
Amsterdam-basedPromptwatch, an AI Search Optimisation (GEO) platform, has raised €6 million inseed funding. The round was led by seed + speed Ventures, with participationfrom Blum Ventures, while Arch…
Google has given Waze a batch of new features, most of them powered by Gemini. The headline additions are a motorcycle mode, personalised routing, conversational map editing, and Gemini-powered destination search, The Verge reports. The most interestin…
Intel is committing 5 billion euros, around $5.7bn, to expand its campus at Leixlip in Ireland. The money is aimed at data-centre processors for AI and high-performance computing, Bloomberg reports. It is a serious share of the company’s budget. The su…