Finland’s ICEYE hits a €10bn valuation, quadrupling in six months as Europe scrambles for its own spy satellites

Six months ago, ICEYE was worth €2.4bn. Today it is worth more than €10bn. Few numbers capture Europe’s defence-tech boom as bluntly as that. The Finnish satellite company has raised €450mn in [...]

Instagram wants to make algorithm customisation a core part of the app, not a buried setting

Instagram head Adam Mosseri previewed new ways to surface Your Algorithm, the feature that lets users specify which topics they want to see more or less of. In an Instagram post this week, Mosseri sai [...]

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 [...]

Uber acquires rival Fly Taxi in Hong Kong, Sing Tao reports

Uber has acquired the main remaining alternative taxi-hailing app in the city. Acquired five months before Hong Kong’s new ride-hailing licences are expected to come into force, the move locks in Ub [...]

AI-generated ‘doctors’ peddling fake cures on TikTok are a ‘huge danger’, experts warn

The advice arrives in the confident cadence of a physician. Microwaving food in plastic gives you cancer, a spoonful of Coca-Cola mixed with onion will ease your pain, and a supplement called “Hyale [...]

Etched raises $700M at a $21B valuation led by Jane Street

Etched has raised $700mn at a $21bn valuation in a round led by Jane Street, doubling the $10.3bn it was worth on 23 July. It has also completed its first customer delivery, a rack shipped to Jane Str [...]

EU officials were targeted on WhatsApp, an internal document shows

Foreign governments have tried to break into the messaging accounts of senior European Union officials. The bloc’s own cyber defence unit told national governments so in July. An internal presentati [...]

The digital legacy problem: what happens to the people behind the memories?

The Pew Research Center’s 2025 survey found that 84% of U.S. adults use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, and 50% use Instagram, illustrating how deeply everyday expression has moved onto digital platforms [...]

Beijing put Huawei’s secret chip lab on national TV two days before Trump arrives. The message wasn’t for Chinese viewers.

  On Friday evening, China Central Television’s most-watched news programme broadcast footage that has never been shown publicly. The Chip Fundamental Technology Research Laboratory at Huawei’s L [...]