Germany's space minister says NASA's Artemis missions depend on German-built hardware, as a transatlantic tech sovereignty standoff escalates.

Ireland assumes the EU Council presidency on 1 July, tasked with brokering tech sovereignty deals while Apple and Microsoft pay 40% of its corporate tax.

JD.com robots will replace its 700,000 couriers 'sooner or later', founder Richard Liu says, as he pledges to retrain them instead.

China's trade curbs hit 56 US firms, including rare-earth miners and drone makers, in retaliation for the Pentagon's expanded military blacklist.

The Chevron Microsoft gas deal puts a 20-year, 2.67GW natural-gas plant behind a giant West Texas data centre, off the grid and online by 2028.

Madrid- and New York-based Prosper AI has raised a $30M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to push its healthcare voice AI beyond scheduling.

Nadella says the AI giants can't promise mass job losses and demand limitless power. Microsoft's fix: cheaper models, more control, public trust.

The Lime IPO is priced at up to $180.9mn, with long-time backer Uber set to anchor the deal at a roughly $1.8bn valuation.

A new index scoring 12,040 citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Copilot finds that editorial outlets dominate AI answers, with Forbes first and press release ...

After industry pushback, the Bank of England has dropped its proposed individual holding caps for stablecoins in favour of per-issuer issuance limits.

Tencent has begun testing Xiaowei, a voice-and-text AI assistant built into WeChat, with a full public rollout targeted for the third quarter.

Spiro has taken $55M from Chinese investor NewTrails Capital, lifting its disclosed funding past $550M as it nears a $1bn valuation.