London Tech Week 2026 - AMD pledges £2bn and Nebius £1.7bn for UK AI, joining Starmer’s £400m compute push as Britain targets Europe’s AI hub.

Meta is filing for contempt against NSO Group, saying the Pegasus maker kept targeting WhatsApp despite a permanent injunction & that it foiled fresh phishing attacks.

Wizz Air will be the first European budget airline to offer Starlink in-flight internet from 2027, a cost gamble that rivals Ryanair & EasyJet have so far avoided.

At London Tech Week, Britain's Cosine signed up BT, HSBC, BAE & others to build Lumen Sovereign, a UK frontier AI model trained on the Isambard-AI supercomputer.

Nvidia and SK Hynix signed a multi-year pact to co-develop AI memory for Vera Rubin and beyond, as memory becomes the AI industry's toughest bottleneck.

Jim Bridenstine's Quantum Space is going public via a $1.2bn SPAC merger to build manoeuvrable spacecraft for the next space race, listing on Nasdaq as QSPC.

Google has ordered 3M+ TPUs from Intel for 2028 and Nvidia is testing its 18A process, a rare vote of confidence in the struggling US foundry as TSMC strains.

Amazon is paying Corning billions for optical fibre to wire its US AI data centres, the glassmaker's third AI megadeal of 2026 after Meta & Nvidia.

A US official told allies to use NATO defence budgets to rip out Huawei gear from their networks, but the idea landed flat as Europe stays split on a ban.

Bending Spoons, the Milan group behind Evernote, WeTransfer & Vimeo, has filed for a US IPO on Nasdaq, with 2025 revenue of $1.31bn & a reported $20bn target.

Kimi developer Moonshot AI seeks $2bn at a $30bn valuation, its third round in six months. DeepSeek wants $59bn. Zhipu sits at $80bn. China's AI funding race is accelerating.

Spotify is in talks with concert promoters to stream live festival footage and has struck a multi-year deal with Live Nation to reserve tickets for top fans.