The CMA opens its fourth Strategic Market Status case into Microsoft
The CMA opens its fourth Strategic Market Status case into Microsoft

Windows, Office, Teams, Copilot, server operating systems, and the cloud licensing the regulator already flagged last July. A nine-month investigation, a February 2027 designation decision, and the first CMA SMS case to walk straight through the door t…

Meta and Google fund the kids groups they cite back at regulators
Meta and Google fund the kids groups they cite back at regulators

An eight-month investigation arc, a $6m bellwether verdict, and a National PTA that has now resigned its Meta sponsorship. The line between independent expert and corporate spokesperson is, on the evidence, a budget item. Meta and Google have spent yea…

Samsung wants its union back at the table. The union wants the bonus formula in writing.
Samsung wants its union back at the table. The union wants the bonus formula in writing.

A week after Samsung Electronics passed $1tn in market value, its largest union is preparing an 18-day strike that could disrupt the AI memory chips inside that valuation. The wage gap with SK Hynix is the spark. The bonus formula is the fight. Samsung…

SK Hynix is about $50bn away from being a trillion-dollar company
SK Hynix is about $50bn away from being a trillion-dollar company

Two AI memory rallies, one country, and a market cap chart that has gone up 9x in two years. If SK Hynix crosses the threshold, South Korea becomes the first country outside the US to host two trillion-dollar companies at the same time. SK Hynix is rou…

Cerebras raises $5.55bn in the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake
Cerebras raises $5.55bn in the biggest US tech IPO since Snowflake

Priced at $185, above the marketed range, the wafer-scale chip company opens trading on Thursday at a $56.4bn valuation. The OpenAI deal is what got the book covered. The customer concentration footnote is what the next quarter has to answer. Cerebras …

OpenAI says no user data was touched in the TanStack npm worm
OpenAI says no user data was touched in the TanStack npm worm

Two corporate laptops, some credential material, and a forced macOS app update. The interesting part is how the malicious packages got published in the first place: not by a stolen npm password, but by TanStack’s own legitimate release pipeline, after …

Microsoft is quietly shopping for an OpenAI replacement
Microsoft is quietly shopping for an OpenAI replacement

The company that put $13bn into OpenAI now wants the option not to need it. Cursor was the first try and fell apart over GitHub Copilot; talks with Stanford diffusion-LLM startup Inception are alive, and the broader strategy belongs to Mustafa Suleyman…

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?
AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015?

AI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assist…

Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production
Fractile raises $220m to take its in-memory-compute inference chip into production

Accel led the London chip startup’s round, with Pat Gelsinger joining as an angel investor, weeks after Anthropic was reported to be in early discussions to become a customer. Fractile, the London-based startup designing inference chips that put comput…

LinkedIn becomes the latest name on a 100,000-job tech layoff list
LinkedIn becomes the latest name on a 100,000-job tech layoff list

Microsoft’s professional network becomes the latest name on a list that now includes Meta, Amazon, Oracle, and IBM, even as the same companies are guiding $725 billion of AI capital spending this year. LinkedIn is cutting roughly 5% of its staff, the l…