New AutoMotive’s data tracker, reported by Reuters on Sunday, marks the threshold and puts the question to industrial policy: how much of the headline number will end up producing cells at scale, given that roughly 600 GWh of announced European battery capacity has already been delayed or cancelled. Europe has now invested cumulatively €200bn into […]
BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan have the mandate. Maturities run from three years to 25 years. The trade follows Alphabet’s record Swiss issuance in February and Amazon’s $37bn dollar deal in March, and is the latest demonstration that hyperscalers are now multi-currency borrowers. Amazon is preparing its first-ever Swiss franc bond issuance, Bloomberg reported […]
Innovation Industries leads the Series A. imec.xpand, Invest-NL Deep Tech Fund, QBIC, HTGF, and BOM return. Total funding now stands at €55m. The money funds in-house chip design and a push toward volume sensors built on the company’s NCOS color-splitting technology. Eindhoven-based eyeo has raised €40m in Series A funding to commercialise a sensor technology […]
NVIDIA’s CEO delivered the keynote at CMU’s 128th commencement on Sunday and received an honorary doctorate. The address framed AI as a reindustrialisation moment for the US, and pressed both engineers and policymakers to advance capability and safety in step. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivered the keynote address at Carnegie Mellon University’s 128th […]
Bek Ventures, Laton Ventures, and angel investor Mert Gür are back. Total funding for the two-year-old studio reaches $103m. The round arrives weeks after Scopely’s $1bn buyout of Loom Games and CVC’s $5bn deal for Dream Games. Grand Games Oyun ve Yazılım, the Istanbul-based mobile gaming studio behind Magic Sort and Car Match, has raised […]
Europe is pouring billions into AI development and infrastructure. GPU (graphics processing units) access is expanding rapidly through cloud platforms and GPU-as-a-service (GPUaaS) providers, becoming a key enabler of AI development and deployment. The underlying assumption is straightforward: scale compute, and you scale capability. Yet, despite the efforts made by EU Member States, from sovereign […]
A speaker panel, food, and a room full of people who actually want to connect. The gathering takes place on 3 June at Flexas.com in the heart of the city. There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from attending the wrong networking event. You know the type: a cavernous venue, a cash bar, […]
The complaint says a backstage shot from the 2024 Austin City Limits Festival ended up on Crystal UHD packaging in retail and online channels worldwide, and that Samsung ignored her cease-and-desist requests. Dua Lipa filed a $15 million federal lawsuit against Samsung Electronics on Friday, alleging that the company has been using a 2024 photograph […]
The company has traced its model’s most uncomfortable behaviour to the corpus of science fiction it was trained on. The fix it describes is unsettling in a different way: teaching the model the reasons behind being good, not just the rules. In a fictional company called Summit Bridge, a fictional executive named Kyle Johnson is […]
The company asked the Kenyan government for a guaranteed annual capacity offtake. The government did not commit at the level Microsoft requested. Talks have broken down for now; the project is not formally cancelled. A $1bn Microsoft data-centre project in Kenya, structured as a partnership with UAE-based G42, has stalled after the two companies failed […]
