David Hardoon, who left Standard Chartered after less than a year, has joined Accenture as managing director and head of advanced AI for Southeast Asia.

Digital Realty is buying Blackstone’s majority interest in three Northern Virginia data centres in a deal valuing the assets at $7.8bn, paying $3.5bn in cash and stock.

A ransomware group has posted files mapping iPhone 18 Pro parts to Apple’s suppliers, stolen from Tata Electronics in India.

The ACCC alleges Amazon used unfair Prime contract terms to introduce ads to Prime Video for over a million annual subscribers without offering refunds.

China’s third-largest foundry is raising up to $890m in Hong Kong to fund a $5.1bn Hefei plant and push toward 22nm, as Chinese chipmakers crowd back into the city.

Google's GV led a $30M seed in Nebex, a startup building market infrastructure to connect space firms, governments and investors across borders.

Marc Andreessen says Doctor ChatGPT beats 99% of doctors. He gave no data, profits from health-AI, and studies show the bot missed half of emergencies.

The Supreme Court ruled geofence warrants need probable cause, finding people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their phone location data.

Chrome quietly pushed a 4GB Gemini Nano AI model to users, while a fake Perplexity extension wiretapped searches. Two sides of Chrome's consent problem.

California struck a deal with Anthropic giving all state agencies access to Claude at half price, despite the federal government labeling it a security risk.

WhatsApp is opening username reservations for its three billion users, letting people connect without sharing their phone number for the first time.

Amazon is exploring OpenAI as an alternative to Claude after a renegotiated contract with Anthropic will raise costs through token-based pricing.