Google launches Universal Cart in the US, with checkout built into Search and the Gemini app
Google launches Universal Cart in the US, with checkout built into Search and the Gemini app

Google launched Universal Cart in the US on Wednesday, a cart that sits inside Search and the Gemini app, holds products from multiple retailers and takes the payment through Google Pay. Its own roadmap names Canada, Australia and the UK for expansion,…

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…

EU says it is in talks with Google over changes after €890M DMA fine
EU says it is in talks with Google over changes after €890M DMA fine

The European Commission is in talks with Google about the steps the company may take following the EU’s €890M (about $1bn) fine in July. The Commission confirmed the talks on Wednesday to Reuters. The fines were issued under the Digital Markets Act (DM…

OpenAI hands its data centre and compute operation to a former xAI executive
OpenAI hands its data centre and compute operation to a former xAI executive

OpenAI has put its compute and infrastructure businesses under Uday Ruddarraju, who ran infrastructure at Elon Musk’s xAI until July 2025. Sachin Katti, who had been overseeing infrastructure and led the $30B Georgia build, leaves the role within weeks…

Apple’s first AI features reach China in December, after a two-year wait
Apple’s first AI features reach China in December, after a two-year wait

Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December with iOS 27.3, two years after the US, excluding the rebuilt Siri AI. Siri AI is also still missing in the EU, with no indication of when approval might come. Apple will ship Apple …

The charged OpenAI engineer had a one-way ticket out of the US, a filing shows
The charged OpenAI engineer had a one-way ticket out of the US, a filing shows

Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI engineer charged over a hidden recording device, had one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia booked for three days after his arrest, according to a court filing. He has entered no reported plea and is presumed innocent. The Open…

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he would cut off customers who build unsafe AI
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he would cut off customers who build unsafe AI

Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in London he would halt chip supply to a customer building unsafe AI, while saying the current level of concern is not warranted. His prescription is to accelerate containment and monitoring technology, which Nvidia is build…

Salience Labs raises $125M for optical AI switches, then expands in California
Salience Labs raises $125M for optical AI switches, then expands in California

Salience Labs has raised an oversubscribed $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital and the British Business Bank taking part. The Oxfordshire company will use it to scale manufacturing and open a second West Coast offi…

Kyndryl will run AI agents inside Toyota Finance’s live IT operations
Kyndryl will run AI agents inside Toyota Finance’s live IT operations

Kyndryl and Toyota Systems will apply Kyndryl’s agentic AI framework to Toyota Finance’s IT change management, infrastructure design and impact analysis, in its production environment. No contract value, timeline or measured result has been disclosed. …

EV sales rebound to their highest level in a year, and stay 40% below 2025
EV sales rebound to their highest level in a year, and stay 40% below 2025

US EV sales rose 6.1% on the previous quarter to almost 263,000, their highest in a year, against more than 437,000 in the same quarter of 2025. Europe registered 277,006 electric cars in July alone. American electric car sales rose 6.1% on the previou…