Amazon’s billion-dollar Corning deal shows fibre is the new bottleneck in the AI build-out

The AI boom runs on chips and electricity. It also runs on glass. Amazon is paying Corning billions of dollars for optical fibre to wire up its rapidly expanding US data centres, the two companies sai [...]

Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers

Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The venture is focused on de [...]

Amsterdam startup Ore Energy raises $43 million to build iron-air batteries that store power for days

Ore Energy, an Amsterdam-based startup building grid-scale iron-air batteries, has raised $43 million in Series A funding to scale a technology that can store renewable electricity for up to 100 hours [...]

Tesla beat Q2 delivery estimates and the stock fell. Wednesday’s earnings face the same problem.

Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter, beating Wall Street estimates with a 25% year-on-year increase. The stock dropped. That reaction tells you everything about where expectations s [...]

Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day

Sundar Pichai’s memo on Wednesday thanked Jeff Dean for “an incredible 27-year run” and said he was off to start a company with Sanjay Ghemawat. He posted the same two names on X. Discovery Loop [...]

A robot that takes blood could be the best AI health story of 2026

One minute and 49 seconds, that was the median time a machine needed to read a patient’s arm, choose a vein, insert a needle, fill the tubes, and withdraw, across the Dutch clinical trial that carri [...]

Sam Darnold meme fans rally around their Super Bowl champ

Social media is lighting up as Sam Darnold goes from meme to Super Bowl champion. [...]

UK takes 'light touch' approach to regulating Apple and Google's app stores

Last year the UK declared that Apple and Google were a duopoly with "strategic market status" in the mobile platforms market, making them subject to special regulations. However, the UK' [...]

Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome

Google is weeks away from permanently disabling every Manifest V2 browser extension in Chrome, a change that will kill uBlock Origin and fundamentally limit what content blockers can do inside the wor [...]