Alphabet lifts capex guide to $205bn as Google Cloud jumps 82%

Alphabet went into its second-quarter results on Wednesday carrying one question louder than the rest: whether the tens of billions it is funnelling into AI infrastructure has started to earn its keep [...]

Nvidia donates a DGX GB300 to the US military’s top science school

Jensen Huang travelled to Monterey this week to give the US Navy a machine that most defence contractors would have had to sell it. Nvidia’s founder helped commission a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer at [...]

Electrified cars power Europe’s car market as Chinese brands hit a record share

Battery-electric and hybrid models did almost all the work of keeping the European market in growth, and Chinese badges are increasingly the ones doing the selling. One in five new cars registered in [...]

Getlink warns unstable EU software could delay Channel Tunnel biometric borders

Yann Leriche, chief executive of Getlink, has a blunt diagnosis for why Europe’s new biometric border regime is still not running end to end at the Channel Tunnel. The problem, he says, is not the t [...]

Circular announces Ring 3 Pro and Slim at IFA with contactless payments and haptic alerts

Circular has announced the Ring 3 Pro and Ring 3 Slim at IFA in Berlin, adding contactless payments and haptic alerts, with no price or release date given. The Pro’s ECG and atrial fibrillation dete [...]

Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub, becoming the shared robot layer for US food delivery

Serve Robotics, the sidewalk-delivery company that spun out of Uber, has added Grubhub to its roster of partners, a move that quietly turns it into something close to the neutral plumbing of America� [...]

Private US companies can now run cyber operations abroad. State-backed hackers are excluded

Donald Trump signed the memorandum on 12 August and the White House published it that night. It runs to five sections. A National Coordination Center creates and manages the programme. Two Program Exe [...]

Instagram changed its logo. The bit you actually tap is the same

Instagram changed its wordmark on Thursday. A wordmark is the written name, the word “Instagram” as it appears at the top of the app. It is not the icon. The pink and orange gradient square on you [...]

Sequoia Capital is putting $10bn behind AI and ‘reindustrialization’

Sequoia Capital, is making the largest bet in its history, and it is not only about software. The venture firm is committing $10bn to a strategy built around artificial intelligence and what it calls [...]