HCLTech has signed a $1.14bn digital transformation deal with an unnamed Fortune Global 50 European firm, its largest win since the 2023 Verizon contract.

Citizen Lab says former MEP Stelios Kouloglou, who sat on the EU's spyware inquiry, was hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus while the probe was under way.

Scientists built SpudCell, the first synthetic cell that grows, divides and evolves, entirely from non-living chemicals. They still won't call it alive.

Alibaba will bar staff from using Anthropic's Claude Code from July 10 over an alleged backdoor, a source says, amid a wider Claude-Qwen dispute.

Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff that agentic AI has not accelerated as hoped, four months after a major reorganisation of the company's AI division.

A source says Anthropic and the Trump administration have not discussed a government equity stake, after a report that OpenAI proposed giving Washington 5%.

QTS has withdrawn its final legal appeal, ending plans for what would have been one of the world's largest data centre campuses in Prince William County.

Kuaishou confirmed a two billion dollar raise for Kling AI, with more investors potentially pushing the total to three billion dollars.

Anthropic is discussing a custom chip partnership with Samsung, though the project is early-stage and the company has not committed to a design.

Microsoft Frontier company will deploy 6,000 engineers to deliver enterprise AI outcomes. AWS launched a $1B version two days earlier. OpenAI and Anthropic too.

A lawsuit alleges Wisk Aero cut FAA-required software testing to hit a deadline, then fired the manager who reported it internally.

A new EUISS and Institut Montaigne report warns Europe's chip sector faces mounting risk from China's export controls and US tech dependence.