For years, one question in Microsoft’s internal employee survey served as a reliable pressure gauge. It asked whether staff felt they were getting a “good deal at Microsoft,” defined as “a reasonable balance between what I contribute to Microsoft an…
Lees meerThe public markets have been asked whether they believe in AI, and they have answered with $85 billion. Alphabet’s record-shattering equity offering, which priced on 2 June, is not just the largest stock sale in tech history. It is the largest equit…
Lees meerThree weeks into her expanded role as president and chief corporate affairs officer, Jill Hazelbaker is already cutting. Uber announced on Wednesday that it is eliminating 23% of positions in its People and Places division, the unit responsible for …
Lees meerIn 2023, Meta fought an eight-month antitrust battle with the Federal Trade Commission for the right to acquire Within, the studio behind the VR fitness app Supernatural. The deal was reportedly worth around $400 million. Mark Zuckerberg even testif…
Lees meerAnthropic has selected Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to lead its initial public offering, with JPMorgan Chase also working on the deal, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The Claude developer is weighing going public as soon as October after filing c…
Lees meerThe European Commission has called on households across the bloc to reduce electricity consumption during peak hours, citing the rapid growth of AI data centres, accelerating electrification, and rising overall digital infrastructure demand as facto…
Lees meerMany companies have quickly moved to adopt artificial intelligence in their systems, embedding it into virtually everything from customer apps to internal systems. That speed has created new pressure for security teams, because AI-enabled applicatio…
Lees meerThe Commission’s ‘AI continent’ rhetoric sits atop draft laws that would let it override chip supply contracts and keep US providers away from sensitive government data. The European Commission unveiled its long-delayed technological sovereignty pac…
Lees meerThe Swedish app-builder, processing a million new projects a week, is making Google Cloud a primary partner, with Gemini models and a security layer aimed at corporate buyers. The pitch behind Lovable has always been that anyone can build software b…
Lees meerFor months the fight in India’s App Store antitrust case was not really about app stores. It was about a spreadsheet. The Competition Commission of India wanted Apple’s financial records; Apple did not want to give them up, least of all the global o…
Lees meerGeneral Catalyst has decided it wants exposure to Factorial in two ways at once. The Barcelona software company has closed a $150M Series D led by the firm at a $2.5bn valuation, and General Catalyst is committing a further $540M through a separate …
Lees meerThe appetite was the story. Applied Aerospace & Defense priced its initial public offering on Tuesday at $20 a share, raising $650M, and by the time the book closed the deal was said to be about ten times oversubscribed. A company that makes fuselag…
Lees meerDeepSeek has spent eighteen months as the most talked-about AI lab that almost nobody could invest in. That is about to change. The Chinese startup is slated to raise roughly 50 billion yuan, about $7bn, in its first external funding round, accordin…
Lees meerMost quantum-computing startups ask the world to build them an entirely new industry: exotic materials, bespoke fabrication, supply chains that do not yet exist. Quobly is making a quieter bet. The Grenoble company thinks the path to a useful quantu…
Lees meerMegaport spent a decade as a company you used to connect to other people’s clouds. On Wednesday it announced a plan to become one. The Australian networking firm secured four new AI infrastructure contracts worth a combined A$458.9M (about $329M) an…
Lees meerA cement kiln is one of the least forgiving machines in industry. It runs at fourteen hundred degrees, it cannot easily be stopped, and the software deciding its fuel mix and oxygen levels is often older than the engineers tending it. Gigaton wants …
Lees meerBritain’s competition regulator has stopped consulting and started ordering. On Wednesday the Competition and Markets Authority imposed new conduct requirements on Google’s search services, the first concrete obligations to follow from its decision …
Lees meerGitLab is cutting about 14% of its full-time workforce, roughly 350 people, and pulling out of 22 countries, based on their report for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2027, in which it grew revenue 23% and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The …
Lees meerThe Department of Government Efficiency is gone, quietly wound down after a year that produced more controversy than confirmed savings. Two of its former staffers have decided the idea was sound and the venue was wrong. On Tuesday they unveiled Spec…
Lees meerOne billion is the number apps spend years chasing and most never reach. ChatGPT got there faster than anything before it. OpenAI’s app crossed 1 billion global monthly active users in May, roughly three years after launch, according to estimates fr…
Lees meerPresident Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, ending weeks of internal White House conflict over how aggressively to regulate the technology…
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