Android has always let people install apps from outside Google’s store. Next week it goes much further. Google will start carrying rival app stores from inside Google Play itself. Google told a ...

Noetra, a consortium owned by SoftBank, NEC, Sony and Honda, will run 27,500 Rubin GPUs for Japan’s FRONTia physical AI project. No price disclosed.

AGCOM fined Google €750,000 over gambling videos on YouTube. Google invoked the hosting shield. The creator was on a vetted revenue-share deal.

The London startup says plants run on less than 8% of the data they collect. Its Orbital model fuses time series, physics and language. KBR led the $20m round.

A day after New York became the first state to freeze large data centres, Trump demanded it reverse course immediately. Hochul replied within hours.

AI has sued a South Carolina man for allegedly using Grok to generate child sexual abuse material, the first such case, while facing suits arguing the opposite.

Nearly two-thirds of countries in the WHO European Region deploy AI diagnostics. One in 12 has a strategy to govern it. Kluge calls the gap the defining challenge.

FANUC, Yaskawa, Kawasaki and 19 others intend to join Nvidia’s Cosmos Coalition. No binding commitment or money has been disclosed.

STOXX 600 profits are forecast to grow 15.3% in Q2, the most since 2022. Strip out energy and it is 6%, against 19.6% in the US.

Emergent's vibe coding platform raised $130M at a $1.5bn valuation, a unicorn a year after launch, as it takes on Lovable, Replit, and Cursor.

Hummingbird. Its data arm pays 20,000 people in 15 countries to film themselves working. Robots have no internet to learn from.

Ofcom is investigating whether TikTok can tell which users are children, and whether it keeps harmful content away from them. Fines could reach 10% of global revenue.