Russia cracked an activist’s iPhone with Cellebrite, months after the firm said it left

A Citizen Lab report puts forensic evidence and a Russian court document behind a familiar problem: surveillance tools do not come home when the seller asks. Russian government unit broke into the iPh [...]

TensorX and Solstice line up $1bn to finance Europe’s sovereign AI buildout

The partnership will fund EU AI hardware and data centres, and launch aiUSX, a yield asset that puts companies’ idle AI cash to work as infrastructure lending. Building sovereign AI in Europe takes [...]

Kremlin demands an explanation from Apple after VK apps vanish from the App Store

On Thursday, a clutch of apps belonging to the Russian tech group VK disappeared from Apple’s App Store, and by the afternoon the Kremlin was asking why. Dmitry Peskov, the presidential spokesman, s [...]

Brussels moves to put AWS and Azure under its toughest tech rules

The European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that it takes the preliminary view that their cloud arms, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digit [...]

Anthropic hires Orange’s AI chief as its European build-out accelerates

Steve Jarrett, Orange’s chief AI officer since 2019, will join the Claude maker in Paris in late August to adapt its products for European and African markets. The head of artificial intelligence at [...]

A Michigan township killed a $2.4 billion Chinese battery plant, and now the company might bankrupt it

Less than three years ago, residents of Green Charter Township, a rural community of roughly 3,000 people in central Michigan, packed a hall to celebrate what they saw as a victory for local democracy [...]

The EU signs up to Pax Silica, the US-led chip pact France called colonisation

Brussels is joining a Washington-led effort to secure AI chip supply chains, a fortnight after unveiling a tech-sovereignty agenda built on the opposite instinct. The European Union is set to join Pax [...]

The biggest question about AI is what humans will do next

When I had back surgery, I assumed recovery would be linear. I thought each week would bring a little less pain, a little more mobility, and another step toward normal. Then I hit a setback. I had ass [...]

Thomson Reuters built its own model on a Chinese open base

Thomson Reuters launched its first proprietary large language model on Monday. The company calls it Thomson. It says it spent $40mn on talent and compute to train the model, and that it began from wha [...]