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The European Commission fined Google €890 million (approximately $1 billion) on Thursday for two separate violations of the Digital Markets Act, marking the first major DMA enforcement action against the search giant and pushing its cumulative EU antitrust liabilities past €10 billion. The two decisions target different practices, but share a common root: Google using […]

Britain’s largest banks accumulated the equivalent of more than a full month of unplanned IT outages over the past two years, as aging legacy infrastructure continues to fail under the weight of modern digital banking demands. Data published by the UK Treasury Select Committee revealed that nine major banks and building societies – including Barclays, […]

Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence group has eliminated an undisclosed number of roles, even as the company projects $200 billion in capital expenditure for 2026 and describes AI as “one of the most important things we’re working on.” The layoffs hit teams working on model customization and post-training, overseen by VPs Adeeb Shanaa (AGI Data Services) […]

The US Treasury has threatened sanctions against Chinese AI company Moonshot AI after White House officials accused the firm of improperly distilling capabilities from Anthropic’s Fable model to build its own Kimi K3, escalating a policy debate over Chinese open-weight models that now cuts across multiple branches of the US government. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent […]

As Washington debates whether to restrict or ban Chinese open-weight AI models, one American company building open-source models for a living has taken an unfashionable position: the models are not dangerous, and trying to ban them is the wrong approach. Arcee, a US-based open-source AI lab, argues that Chinese open-weight models like Moonshot AI’s Kimi […]

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that virtual private networks are “lawful technical tools,” handing privacy advocates a major victory in a case that originated from an unlikely source: Anne Frank’s manuscripts. The judgment, handed down in Case C-788/24, addresses a question that has become increasingly urgent as both copyright enforcement […]

Google’s parent company Alphabet is managing its fleet of AI accelerators with a blunt priority: artificial general intelligence research comes first, cloud customers come second. The disclosure came during the company’s Q2 2026 earnings call, where CEO Sundar Pichai described TPU allocation as a deliberate hierarchy, not a free market. “In terms of allocating our […]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has thrown himself into the middle of a growing policy war over Chinese artificial intelligence, arguing that American companies should be free to use open-source models from China, a position that puts him directly at odds with both the Trump administration and his own largest customers. The debate was triggered by […]

Switching from an iPhone to an Android phone has always been possible, but it has usually required downloading a separate app, fiddling with cables or Wi-Fi Direct connections, and hoping that everything transfers cleanly. Google is now making that friction disappear by building the migration tool directly into Android 17. The new feature, announced on […]

CERN has reached a critical milestone in the upgrade of the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. A new generation of superconducting magnets was powered to full operating current for the first time on July 8, bringing the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HiLumi LHC) a significant step closer to its planned 2030 operational debut. […]