Huawei goes on trial in New York this week, seven years after the United States charged it. Jury selection begins on Tuesday. The company is accused of racketeering, stealing trade secrets, wire fraud and bank fraud, and it denies all of it. Larry Neum…
The UK minister responsible for health innovation has told MPs that public mistrust of Palantir is making patients less willing to hand their medical records to the NHS, and that the number of people formally opting out of data sharing has risen by rou…
Malaysia is leaning towards Huawei silicon to run its national AI project, according to Bloomberg. No foreign government has openly chosen Chinese AI accelerators over American ones before. Washington told the world last year that buying these particul…
The man who wrote the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan is leaving the government research agency he chaired. He announced it five days after taking a job at Anthropic. The resignation itself is not the interesting part. The arrangement it undoes had a…
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Vodafone and Telefónica are in early talks to form a consortium that would bid for European satellite spectrum and offer calls, texts and data to ordinary phones from orbit, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The service would comp…
Belgian prosecutors have held a 52-year-old man in pre-trial detention since 10 May on suspicion of passing chip-making secrets to China. He holds Belgian and Chinese nationality. Police arrested him at Brussels Airport as he was about to board a fligh…
Dubai Chambers is putting more than 14,000 companies through training in agentic AI, the kind of software that carries out tasks on its own rather than answering questions. The body launched the courses on 1 September in front of 90 chairpersons of its…
The investment case for Cato is unusual. Most software sells on the promise of making a hard thing easy. Cato’s backers are betting that a hard thing stays hard. The Milan startup has raised €6m in seed funding to sell AI to companies bidding for Itali…
Audi has revealed the A2 e-tron, its cheapest electric car, built in Ingolstadt and priced from EUR 38,200 with up to 646km of WLTP range. At 4.32 metres it is 12 centimetres too long for M1E, the small-car category the Commission proposed in December …
American buyers are leaving electric cars for hybrids and petrol after the $7,500 federal credit ended, with 42.6% of second-quarter EV trade-ins going to a combustion car. Hybrids are already the biggest-selling powertrain in the EU at 37.3%, and the …