AlphaGo’s David Silver puts his superintelligence bet on Google Cloud

Ineffable Intelligence, the London startup founded by the DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo, has named Google Cloud as the infrastructure partner for its frontier AI lab. The deal, announced at Googl [...]

TCS takes a $70m hit after US Supreme Court rejects its appeal

Tata Consultancy Services will book a one-time charge of $70m after the US Supreme Court declined to hear its appeal in a trade-secrets dispute, the Indian IT giant said. The court’s refusal, issued [...]

India blocks Telegram until 22 June over medical exam-cheating rackets

India has temporarily blocked access to Telegram until 22 June, the government said, after concluding that cheating rackets were using the app to defraud candidates sitting a high-stakes medical-entra [...]

Italy’s antitrust regulator opens a probe into Apple’s cloud services

Italy’s competition authority has opened an investigation into Apple over its cloud services, examined under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. The move places Apple’s cloud business und [...]

France’s intelligence service is dropping Palantir for a homegrown rival

France’s domestic intelligence agency is dropping Palantir. The DGSI will replace the American firm’s data-analysis tools with software from ChapsVision, a French company, Prime Minister Sebastien [...]

SpaceX overtakes Amazon as its post-IPO rally rolls on

SpaceX is now worth more than Amazon, at least for as long as the rally holds. Shares of the rocket company rose more than 10% on Tuesday, extending a run that began at its market debut and putting it [...]

China signs up 26 financial institutions for digital-yuan cross-border payments

China’s central bank has brought a fresh batch of financial institutions into its digital-yuan network for cross-border payments, extending a currency that began life as a way to buy noodles in Shen [...]

OpenAI spent $34bn last year as it lines up for an IPO

OpenAI spent $34bn in 2025, more than two and a half times what it took in, as it prepares to file for one of the largest public listings ever attempted. The figure, reported by the Financial Times, [...]

As Europe rearms, the ‘wingman’ drone takes centre stage at the Berlin airshow

The aircraft drawing crowds at last week’s Berlin airshow was not the one with a pilot in it. The “loyal wingman,” an uncrewed jet built to fly beside a manned fighter and carry the extra sensor [...]