NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone

NATO wants a cloud it can trust under fire. Its technology agency has signed a contract worth about €200 million with Accenture and Italy’s Leonardo to build one. Accenture announced the deal on T [...]

Meta’s Hyperion data centre hit $50bn, and split a Louisiana town in two

Meta’s Hyperion data centre in rural Louisiana has ballooned from $10bn to more than $50bn in under two years. In a parish of 20,000 people, it has made some locals a fortune and priced others out o [...]

Jensen Huang made $172 billion selling AI chips. He just gave $75 million to an art school.

Jensen and Lori Huang have given Vanderbilt University $75 million to establish the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design in San Francisco. The $75 million is a matching gift [...]

Germany wants Helsing to build the brain of its next air war

Germany is quietly building its own brain for future air warfare, and it wants Helsing to write the code. Berlin is lining up a €580mn contract for the Munich AI firm. The software would link fighte [...]

Apple unveils M6 and M5 Ultra chips with a big jump in AI performance

Apple has introduced the M6 in a new Mac mini and the M5 Ultra in a new Mac Studio, its first 2nm chip and its first quad-die M-series design respectively. The M5 Ultra supports up to 512GB of unified [...]

Nuclear Turbines raises £15M for compact reactors it says could undercut fossil fuels

Nuclear power usually arrives with a very large price tag and a very long wait. Nuclear Turbines, a Manchester startup spun out of BAE Systems, has raised £15M to argue that it need not be either, at [...]

Hackers stole three million dollars from Polymarket users through a compromised third-party vendor

Polymarket confirmed on Thursday that hackers stole funds from users after a third-party vendor was compromised, allowing malicious code to be injected into the prediction market’s website. Blockcha [...]

The Brexit bill comes due: ten years, seven prime ministers, and an economy 6% smaller than it should be

Ten years ago today, 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The decade that followed delivered seven prime ministers, a permanently weakened currency, and an economy that a l [...]

South Korea’s chip worker bonuses are so large the central bank is treating them as an inflation risk

The semiconductor super-cycle has made South Korea’s chip workers extraordinarily well paid, and the country’s central bank is now worried about what happens when that money hits the wider economy [...]