The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed Google’s final appeal against a €4.1 billion antitrust fine, ending an eight-year fight over how the company built Android into a vehicle for its search and browser dominance. The ruling, handed down on Thursday, leaves the penalty intact and closes off any further judicial route […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Alva Industries has raised €16 million to scale production of its ultra-compact electric motors, the Trondheim based deep-tech company announced on 2 July. The round is led by Nysnø Climate Investments, Sandwater and Emerald Technology Ventures, the latter investing on behalf of the Nabtesco Technology Ventures fund. Existing backers Statkraft Ventures and EnvisionTech also took part. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A 10-country analysis finds 20 million children already using AI tools, with governance struggling to keep pace with a generation growing up inside what UNICEF calls “a global experiment.” An estimated 20 million children across ten countries have already used artificial intelligence, and they are picking it up more than three times faster than the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Instead of just selling chips, Nvidia is offering AI clouds a revenue-sharing and credit-support model built to get GPUs into the hands of companies that could not otherwise afford them. Nvidia is changing how it gets paid. The company announced on Wednesday a new arrangement in which AI cloud providers can access large volumes of its […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Novo Holdings, the investment company that controls Novo Nordisk and holds the wealth of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, is backing a fund aimed at Italian drug startups, according to Bloomberg. The move extends a pattern that has seen the Danish investor push capital into life sciences hubs well outside Copenhagen, including European deep-tech vehicles backed alongside the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has ordered WhatsApp not to launch its planned usernames feature in the country until further consultations are complete, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The ministry, known as MeitY, has given Meta three days to explain why regulatory action should not follow the feature’s announcement. WhatsApp said on […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Microsoft has joined a consortium led by Singapore-based Lightstorm to build a new subsea cable connecting India with Singapore and Malaysia, the companies announced on Thursday. T he I-2SEA system will run 3,600 kilometres and is intended to support the AI, cloud and hyperscale workloads that have made India one of the world’s most contested data […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Oxmiq Labs has closed a $35m Series A to scale OxCore, a licensable GPU architecture the startup says lets chipmakers build custom AI silicon without running a full, multi-year design programme of their own. The round brings the company’s total capital raised to $60m since its founding by veteran chip architect Raja Koduri. The pitch is […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The US government is negotiating voluntary standards with AI companies covering how new models get released, according to the Financial Times, with an announcement said to be possible within the next week. The standards would reportedly set benchmarks and timelines for advanced models, while clarifying who gets access to them inside the US and abroad. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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SoftBank has gone back to lenders with a $10bn loan proposal secured against its OpenAI stake, and this time it is offering to personally guarantee the debt, according to Reuters, which cited people familiar with the discussions. The concession gives banks recourse to SoftBank itself if the pledged OpenAI shares fall short of covering the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Taiwanese court has ordered the detention of two Super Micro employees as part of a widening investigation into whether AI servers built with Nvidia chips were illegally routed to China. The Keelung District Court detained the pair, identified in Taiwanese press as managers surnamed Wang and Lin, on the night of June 30 into July […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Hong Kong-listed shares of Chinese EV makers surged on Thursday after June delivery figures beat expectations. BYD gained around 9% and Xiaomi climbed about 5%. BYD posted 403,472 vehicle sales in June, up 5.46% from the same month last year. Deutsche Bank said BYD’s second-quarter sales volume rose 58% from the previous quarter to 1.1 […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Apple is preparing a refreshed iPad Pro lineup and a redesigned entry-level MacBook Pro for release in the first half of 2027, according to Bloomberg. The iPad Pro update keeps its current 11-inch and 13-inch sizes but focuses on internal changes, and the MacBook Pro overhaul brings the entry-level 14-inch model, codenamed K104, in line […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A new report from the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and the French think tank Institut Montaigne warns that Europe’s semiconductor sector faces a bleak future, squeezed between Chinese export controls and a growing dependence on US technology. The study, published on Thursday, forms part of an 18-month, EU-funded project called the Chips Diplomacy […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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SK Hynix will spend 80 trillion won, or roughly $51.46 billion, building a new NAND flash memory factory in Cheongju, South Korea, with production targeted to begin in the first half of 2029. Chief executive Kwak Noh-jung announced the plan at an event attended by President Lee Jae Myung, folding the new fab, called M17, […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Samsung Group has put a number on its next decade of domestic manufacturing: 140 trillion won, or roughly $90 billion, spread across displays, memory chips, batteries and chip-packaging materials in South Korea’s central Chungcheong provinces. Samsung Display chief executive Yi Chung laid out the breakdown on Thursday at an event in Asan hosted by President […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Google has exceeded a five-year pledge to invest $1 billion in Africa, the company said on Wednesday at the first Africa Cloud Summit in Johannesburg, alongside a batch of new infrastructure and AI initiatives. The announcement builds on Google’s 2025 launch of a cloud region in Johannesburg, extending a bet on African digital infrastructure that […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Ubisoft has hired Christoph Hartmann, until recently vice president of Amazon Games, to run the division that controls its Tom Clancy properties. He takes over as general manager of Creative House 2, the unit built around The Division, Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell, according to Ubisoft’s own statement. The appointment lands at a delicate moment for […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI has proposed handing the US government a 5% equity stake in the company, according to the Financial Times, as the White House and Silicon Valley’s best-funded startup edge closer to a deal that has been under discussion for more than a year. At OpenAI’s $852bn valuation, struck in its record-breaking March funding round, a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Alibaba and its US digital payment processor have agreed to pay 600 million dollars to resolve a federal investigation into whether they failed to prevent the sale and importation of illegal pharmaceuticals and controlled substances, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. Alibaba entered into a non-prosecution agreement to end a probe of alleged violations of […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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