The EU fined Google €890 million under the Digital Markets Act for search self-preferencing and Play Store restrictions, its first DMA penalty.

Nvidia has donated a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer to the Naval Postgraduate School, the first system of its kind in the US military.

Alphabet beat on revenue and grew Google Cloud 82%, but a record $205bn capex guide and negative free cash flow sent shares down about 5%.

Electric and hybrid cars drove Europe’s new-car growth in H1 2026, while Chinese brands roughly doubled their share to a June record, ACEA data shows.

Sundar Pichai conceded Google needs to improve at coding but rejected claims it is losing the AI race, as Alphabet Q2 revenue hit $119.8bn and cloud grew 82%.

Nokia’s comparable operating profit rose 18% to €434mn in Q2 2026, beating forecasts, as AI data-centre orders lifted Network Infrastructure sales.

Intel and AMD are signing longer-term server CPU deals with Chinese buyers as prices jump more than 40% this year, Reuters reports.

Adecco chief Denis Machuel says AI is reshaping work without triggering a jobs collapse, even as employers blame it for a quarter of US layoffs.

Brockman acknowledged Kimi K3's quality in a Bloomberg interview but said it is too early to tell whether Moonshot distilled from OpenAI's models ...

IBM lowered its revenue growth forecast to four to five percent from more than five percent after mainframe sales fell 42 percent in the second quarter ...

Monday.com will lay off about 620 employees and flatten its management structure as the project management company chases what it calls the AI Work Platform ...

Hironobu Tamba left SoftBank to lead Noetra, a $6bn state-backed bet on Japan-built AI for robots. He calls it a last chance for the country.