More premium games hit the App Store this year than last, Apple says
More premium games hit the App Store this year than last, Apple says

Indie games make up many of the new premium games on the App Store, says Carson Oliver, Apple’s head of App Store Worldwide. More console and PC franchises are also coming to mobile, he said. In all, more premium games have come out this year than last…

Nvidia’s Huang says CoreWeave needs no backstop, as its credit swaps hit a record
Nvidia’s Huang says CoreWeave needs no backstop, as its credit swaps hit a record

Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in Stockholm that CoreWeave’s cost of capital is decreasing and that Nvidia does not need to backstop the company. On the same day CoreWeave’s five-year credit default swaps hit a record 1,194.5 basis points, pricing a more …

Microsoft says Windows 11 is now up to 20% more responsive and better on 8GB of RAM
Microsoft says Windows 11 is now up to 20% more responsive and better on 8GB of RAM

Microsoft says months of work have made Windows 11 up to 20% more responsive and that better memory management makes a meaningful difference on PCs with 8GB of RAM. The only published hands-on test found gains on 16GB and larger machines, and none at a…

SpaceX’s $8B spectrum deal exposes the risk in telecom shares
SpaceX’s $8B spectrum deal exposes the risk in telecom shares

SpaceX agreed to pay about $8B for nationwide low-band US spectrum, and shares in AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile fell on the news. Europe’s equivalent band comes up for selection in May 2027, with Brussels proposing that two-thirds of it be reserved fo…

ASML says it cannot meet chip tool demand in 2027 or 2028
ASML says it cannot meet chip tool demand in 2027 or 2028

ASML says its supply plans mean it cannot fully meet demand in 2027 or 2028, and some customers want to place orders for 2029 and 2030. It raised the low end of its 2026 sales guidance and its shares rose 2.8%. ASML says it will not be able to meet dem…

Volkswagen’s US EV sales collapse 90% in a quarter
Volkswagen’s US EV sales collapse 90% in a quarter

Volkswagen sold 1,421 electric cars in the United States in the third quarter, a 90% fall, after ending ID.4 production and halting imports of its electric minivan. In Europe battery electric cars took 29% of new registrations in August. Volkswagen sol…

Jio Platforms attracts more than $20B in bids ahead of record India IPO
Jio Platforms attracts more than $20B in bids ahead of record India IPO

Jio Platforms has drawn more than $20B in bids for what would be India’s largest listing, with Fidelity, Allianz and Capital Group indicating interest. The company is now seeking about $108B, against the $170B bankers discussed last November. Jio Platf…

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…

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…

OpenAI adds 200 Dublin jobs and builds its second applied AI lab
OpenAI adds 200 Dublin jobs and builds its second applied AI lab

OpenAI is adding 200 roles in Dublin and building an applied AI lab at its EU headquarters, taking planned Irish hiring to 450. The move lands two days before Ireland hosts the International AI Summit under its EU presidency. OpenAI is adding 200 jobs …