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 [...]

Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows

Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit card transaction analysis firm Indagari. Claude’s paying consumer [...]

Trump’s top AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is stepping down from the White House

Sriram Krishnan, the White House’s senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence, is stepping down. The former Andreessen Horowitz partner was tapped by President Donald Trump to help shape the a [...]

Dell’s $699 XPS 13 walks straight into MacBook Neo territory

Dell unveiled a new XPS 13 at Computex on Sunday with a starting price of $699 for general consumers and $599 for students aged 16 and over, the first time the company’s flagship thin-and-light lapt [...]

Revolut, Mistral and Wayve founders back Balderton’s ‘Built in Europe’ push

European tech has a confidence problem that has little to do with its results. The companies are there, the exits are there, and yet the dominant story has long been one of catching up to Silicon Vall [...]

China formalises tougher outbound-investment rules after the Meta-Manus blockade

Beijing’s new framework codifies the technology-tracing approach the NDRC used to unwind Meta’s $2bn Manus acquisition, making cross-border AI deals materially harder. China has formalised a tough [...]

US moves to close the loophole letting Nvidia’s top chips reach Chinese firms abroad

New Commerce Department guidance ties export-licence rules to where a company is headquartered, not where it sits, snaring the overseas units of Chinese AI firms. For about a year, there was a way aro [...]

SoftBank overtakes Toyota as Japan’s most valuable company on the AI rally

SoftBank’s market cap topped Toyota’s on Monday for the first time in 23 years, lifted by its ~$65bn OpenAI stake and a Nikkei breaking 67,000 for the first time. SoftBank Group overtook Toyota Mo [...]

ASML spinout Invisix raises €20M to see inside the chips optics can’t

Modern chips have a measurement problem that sounds almost philosophical: they have become too complex to look at. As logic and memory devices stack into three dimensions and shrink to a few nanometre [...]