The European Commission has fined Temu €200M under the Digital Services Act for failing to prevent the sale of unsafe baby toys and faulty chargers, the regime’s second major enforcement action.

Meta’s push into AI subscriptions and OpenAI/xAI’s push into advertising define the next phase of the consumer-AI revenue-model debate. None of the three is comfortable with the convergence.

Orbital Industries, formerly Orbital Materials, has raised a $50M Series B led by Plural with Nvidia’s NVentures, for AI-designed PFAS-free GPU cooling fluid and modular data-centre infrastructure.

AtlasEdge, the Liberty Global / DigitalBridge joint venture, has secured $1.2bn in debt financing to scale its European data-centre footprint, the largest single facility in its history.

The Pentagon has awarded Dell a five-year, $9.7bn contract to consolidate Microsoft software licensing across the US military and intelligence agencies, projected to save $422m a year.

Snowflake has committed $6bn to AWS over five years, 2.4x larger than its 2023 deal, with AWS Graviton chips at the centre. Shares jumped 38% on the news and a Q1 earnings beat.

Healthcare executive Donna R. Cryer argues that AI systems are being deployed across hospitals and pharma without patient governance, and that a Chief Patient Officer role is overdue.

FOCCUS Marriage Ministries director Sheila J. Simpson argues that digital convenience is quietly eroding meaningful communication, and that presence, not connectivity, builds trust.

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch pushed back directly against Pope Leo XIV’s call to disarm AI, arguing Europe cannot afford unilateral restraint while adversaries deploy the technology.

Liu Qiangdong’s pledge to safeguard JD.com’s workforce from automation sits uncomfortably with his own ‘unmanned era’ vision and a flagship warehouse already running on four employees. Liu Qiangdong, ...

Mistral has formally launched Mistral for Industrial Engineering with Airbus, BMW, EDF and CMA CGM as launch customers, anchoring its physical-AI commercial strategy.

SpaceX did not commit to a multi-year lease of its Memphis Colossus 1 cluster to Anthropic, Elon Musk said on Wednesday, describing the agreement as 180 days with a 90-day mutual cancellation right.