Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google
Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google

The European Commission is preparing to fine Google a sum running into the high hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the Digital Markets Act, according to a Handelsblatt report on Monday, in what would be the largest penalty ever issued under th…

China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one
China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one

Summary: China has launched a national ID system for humanoid robots, assigning each a 29-character code that tracks it from production to recycling. Over 28,000 robots across 200 models already have IDs. The system logs real-time performance data incl…

India’s AI ambitions hinge on turning 200 million workers into 350 million
India’s AI ambitions hinge on turning 200 million workers into 350 million

IBM India’s Sandip Patel says the country can become the world’s AI skill capital by 2030. The arithmetic of getting there is harder than the headline number suggests. ndia has roughly six hundred million workers, and on a recent Bengaluru morning, the…

Why EU business AI adoption is rising and still not catching up
Why EU business AI adoption is rising and still not catching up

Eurostat published  last December a release that, on a different continent, would have been front-page news. They were saying that 20% of European Union enterprises with at least ten employees now used artificial intelligence in some part of their busi…

Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI
Microsoft’s quiet Claude Code retreat and the real cost of enterprise AI

In December of last year, Microsoft told thousands of its engineers, product managers and designers that they could use Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent, on the company dime. By spring, the tool had spread well beyond engineering: int…

Pope Leo XIV tells the Vatican to disarm AI, in the first encyclical of his pontificate
Pope Leo XIV tells the Vatican to disarm AI, in the first encyclical of his pontificate

Magnifica humanitas calls for breaking up monopolistic control of the technology, rules out algorithmic warfare, and is being presented alongside Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah. Pope Leo XIV used the first encyclical of his pontificate, published in R…

Ericsson is leaving Kista for central Stockholm, in the largest office lease in Swedish history
Ericsson is leaving Kista for central Stockholm, in the largest office lease in Swedish history

The 71,000-square-metre Hagastaden campus, signed with Atrium Ljungberg and Castellum, ends more than two decades in the suburb once branded Sweden’s Silicon Valley. Ericsson is moving its global headquarters out of Kista. The Swedish telecoms-equipmen…

UK venture funding doubled to $10.5bn in the first four months of 2026, on the back of three giant rounds
UK venture funding doubled to $10.5bn in the first four months of 2026, on the back of three giant rounds

GlobalData’s count puts the country well clear of the rest of Europe and inside the global top five, but more than 40% of the total came from just three companies: Nscale, Wayve, and Ineffable Intelligence. UK-domiciled companies raised $10.5bn of vent…

Blue Origin commits another $600m to its Florida campus
Blue Origin commits another $600m to its Florida campus

Project Horizon adds an 830,000-square-foot upper-stage factory at Cape Canaveral, weeks before SpaceX’s record IPO and a month after the April New Glenn payload mishap. Blue Origin will spend $600m on a new upper-stage manufacturing facility at its Ro…

Schneider Electric expects its India data-centre business to outgrow the rest of the company
Schneider Electric expects its India data-centre business to outgrow the rest of the company

On a base of 1.5 gigawatts of installed capacity and a national plan to reach six to eight, the French infrastructure group sees its India unit becoming its single biggest business within five years. Schneider Electric expects its India data-centre bus…