Berlin’s Almetra raises €16.3M to turn factory video into live data

The Berlin startup points cameras at production lines, converts the footage into live data, and says it has lifted output at Bosch and ABB plants. Now it wants the US. Berlin startup that films what h [...]

Amazon to invest an extra $13bn in Indian cloud and AI by 2030

Amazon will invest an additional $13bn in India by 2030, the company said on June 25, lifting its planned spending in the country to $48bn over the period and routing the new money into the part of th [...]

Two more Gemini researchers are leaving Google for Anthropic

Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Google are planning to leave for Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report on June 24, the latest departures from the team behind Gemini and the sec [...]

Solo-maxxing: How tech taught Gen Z to monetise being alone

We can no longer pretend that the bridge between generations is invisible, because it stands before us, growing wider every day, harder to cross and harder even to name. Nor can we deny that technolog [...]

Canadian workers have few defences against workplace surveillance

TD’s plan to monitor some staff has exposed a legal gap: in much of Canada, an employer can watch you work and owes you little more than a notice. Then Toronto-Dominion Bank told some of its staff t [...]

Oracle cuts about 500 jobs in Romania as AI restructuring rolls on

On the morning of June 25, Oracle began telling roughly 500 of its Romanian employees that their jobs were gone, part of the company’s long-running global reorganisation toward cloud and artificial [...]

IBM says it has built the first sub-1nm chip technology

IBM announced that it has built the world’s first sub-1nm chip technology, a transistor architecture at what it calls the 0.7nm, or 7-angstrom, node. It is the kind of milestone the semiconductor in [...]

South Korean chip shares rally after Micron’s upbeat earnings

South Korean chip stocks rallied on Thursday after Micron Technology reported a record quarter and an upbeat outlook, reviving optimism that demand for AI memory will stay tight well into next year. T [...]

China wants its green power wired straight into the data centre

In the desert outside Zhongwei, in the northwestern region of Ningxia, four dedicated power lines now run from a field of solar panels to a cluster of computers. They do not pass through the public gr [...]