Workday must face California lawsuit over AI hiring bias, judge rules

A San Francisco judge cleared a proposed class action to proceed, in a case described as the first to broadly target the algorithms behind AI screening software. A US federal judge has ruled that Work [...]

UN urges AI firms to come clean on their environmental costs

The United Nations wants artificial-intelligence companies to stop treating the environmental bill as somebody else’s problem. In a call amplified this week by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, th [...]

Masayoshi Son dismisses Musk’s space data centres as an AI-race bet

Masayoshi Son does not think the future of artificial intelligence is in orbit. The SoftBank Group founder told shareholders on 23 June 2026 that there is little merit in building data centres in spac [...]

Google taps its alumni network for a new AI startup incubator

Google is building an AI startup incubator that draws on its network of former employees, the so-called “Xooglers”, according to Bloomberg. The pitch is neat in its logic: as some of the company� [...]

TensorX raises €8M to build sovereign AI inference for Europe on Nvidia Blackwell

The Irish startup is buying B300 GPUs to expand a GDPR-compliant inference platform aimed at the banks, hospitals, and law firms that cannot send their data abroad. TensorX, a startup building AI infe [...]

Tsuga raises $35m to keep AI-era observability inside the customer’s own cloud

The Paris startup, founded by two former Datadog hands, wants to end the per-byte pricing model just as AI workloads make telemetry explode. Tsuga, a Paris startup building observability software for [...]

Tencent weighs exit from Marvelous and other Japanese game bets

Tencent Holdings is in talks to walk away from several of the minority stakes it holds in Japanese game studios, among them the Tokyo-listed developer Marvelous Inc., as the company reassesses a globa [...]

WiseTech shares fall as founder Richard White denies a trafficking claim

Reports of an Australian police inquiry into a visa-for-sex allegation knocked billions off the logistics software firm, four months after White returned to its leadership. Richard White, the billiona [...]

Reddit stock surges after being named to the S&P 500 for the first time

Reddit will join the benchmark index on Aug. 18, replacing AvalonBay Communities, becoming only the second pureplay social media company in the S&P 500 [...]