Microsoft heads into Build with AI everywhere and a paying-customer problem
Microsoft heads into Build with AI everywhere and a paying-customer problem

The company’s developer conference opens in San Francisco with another round of AI tooling expected, against the awkward backdrop of how few people pay for Copilot. Microsoft opened its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, wit…

WeRide and Uber take their robotaxi partnership to Madrid
WeRide and Uber take their robotaxi partnership to Madrid

The robotaxi map of Europe has been filling in city by city, and on Tuesday Madrid joined it. WeRide and Uber said they will launch what they call Spain’s first commercial robotaxi pilot in the Region of Madrid, with rides bookable through the Uber app…

Jensen Huang says pay workers ‘as much as possible’ days after Nvidia commits 50% of free cash to shareholders
Jensen Huang says pay workers ‘as much as possible’ days after Nvidia commits 50% of free cash to shareholders

Jensen Huang’s comments at Computex defend the Samsung bonus structure that delivers $400,000 to chip engineers, but land alongside an $80bn Nvidia buyback announced two weeks ago. Jensen Huang, the Nvidia chief executive, told reporters on the sidelin…

ByteDance and Oracle are using Arm’s in-house AGI CPU, completing the hyperscaler-x86 exit
ByteDance and Oracle are using Arm’s in-house AGI CPU, completing the hyperscaler-x86 exit

Arm CEO René Haas confirmed at Computex that ByteDance and Oracle have joined Meta as customers for Arm’s own data-centre CPU, validating the company’s shift from licensor to silicon vendor. Arm chief executive René Haas confirmed at Computex on Monday…

Vinted Ventures backs Tilt’s $26M live-commerce round as Whatnot pressure mounts
Vinted Ventures backs Tilt’s $26M live-commerce round as Whatnot pressure mounts

Tilt’s $26M raise, the first Vinted Ventures cheque into a live-commerce platform, looks like a defensive move against the Whatnot expansion threatening Vinted’s European resale base. Tilt, the London-based live-auction app founded by two early Revolut…

Alphabet to raise $80bn in equity to fund its AI spending
Alphabet to raise $80bn in equity to fund its AI spending

Alphabet is raising $80bn in equity, an unusually large sum for a company that has rarely needed to ask. The Google parent announced the plan on Monday to help fund what it called investment in world-class AI compute infrastructure to meet unprecedente…

Runway picks London for its European headquarters with a $200m UK pledge
Runway picks London for its European headquarters with a $200m UK pledge

The Nvidia-backed AI video firm joins Anthropic and OpenAI in betting on London, citing customers including the BBC, Fremantle and WPP. Runway is making London its European headquarters and has pledged to put more than $200m into the UK’s AI ecosystem …

NVIDIA names Anthropic and OpenAI among first users of its Vera chip
NVIDIA names Anthropic and OpenAI among first users of its Vera chip

Jensen Huang spent a portion of his Computex keynote reading out a guest list. Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and Oracle, the Nvidia chief executive told the audience in Taipei on Monday, are among the first big users of Vera, the company’s new in-house pro…

ASML spinout Invisix raises €20M to see inside the chips optics can’t
ASML spinout Invisix raises €20M to see inside the chips optics can’t

Modern chips have a measurement problem that sounds almost philosophical: they have become too complex to look at. As logic and memory devices stack into three dimensions and shrink to a few nanometres, the optical tools that check each layer can no lo…

US moves to close the loophole letting Nvidia’s top chips reach Chinese firms abroad
US moves to close the loophole letting Nvidia’s top chips reach Chinese firms abroad

New Commerce Department guidance ties export-licence rules to where a company is headquartered, not where it sits, snaring the overseas units of Chinese AI firms. For about a year, there was a way around America’s toughest chip controls, and it was a m…