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The company highlights major advances in AI capabilities - and warns of the new security risks that come with them.

The AI chipmaker is preparing to establish NVPAC as export controls, tariffs and data-centre policy increasingly shape its business.

The chipmaker's outlook for roughly 70% revenue growth next fiscal year lifted technology shares and eased fears of a sharp slowdown in AI infrastructure spending.

State Department letters propose shared standards and export alignment on advanced chips, in what officials describe internally as a technology bloc.

Apple has trained a large language model designed for Chinese users, seeking greater control over its long-term artificial-intelligence architecture in its second-largest market.

SMIC has increased prices for its most sought-after capacity, with utilisation at 93.7% and quarterly revenue above $3 billion for the first time.

The world's largest personal-computer maker reported higher revenue as infrastructure sales grew faster than its consumer division, underlining how far the AI build-out has shifted the industry's centre of gravity.

The networking group reported stronger orders from cloud and enterprise customers, saying the switching and optics required to connect AI clusters has become a distinct source of demand.

The company set out a wider set of on-device assistant capabilities for its wearable line, pushing the contested question of always-available cameras and microphones further into everyday use.

Enterprise customers will be able to run workloads on trapped-ion quantum processors through a standard cloud console, in an arrangement aimed at research users rather than production systems.

The Chinese robotics maker advanced plans for a share sale, testing whether investor enthusiasm for humanoid machines can survive contact with disclosure requirements.

The two companies described an arrangement to supply dedicated inference capacity to enterprise customers, reflecting a shift in AI spending from training large models to running them.

The two companies set out closer cooperation on sensor production, in a category where Japanese design and Taiwanese logic manufacturing have become difficult to separate.

The arrangements with Wall Street institutions are memorandums of understanding to mobilise capital rather than committed spending, as a Chennai cluster is announced.

Strong data-centre earnings lifted the sector, days after hedge funds increased short positions against AI-exposed stocks.

Hazeltree data shows CoreWeave, Super Micro Computer and Nebius Group among the most heavily shorted names after July's technology sell-off.

The new open-weight AI model strengthens Meta's push for wider access to advanced tools.

Microsoft added almost $450 billion to its market value in a single trading day after strong cloud-computing results and an optimistic forecast reassured investors about its artificial-intelligence spending.

The European Union has announced plans to support the construction of seven AI gigafactories as part of its attempt to compete more effectively with the United States and China.

Technology and semiconductor shares have come under renewed pressure as investors demand clearer evidence that record spending on artificial-intelligence infrastructure will produce sustainable profits.

The judgment allows Tesla's claim concerning fair licensing terms for 5G technology used in connected vehicles to continue, but it does not settle the final price or validity of the patents.

Beijing has rejected allegations that Chinese developers improperly copied an American artificial-intelligence model and has warned it may respond to sanctions or trade restrictions.

The memorandum of understanding covers advanced memory, contract chip manufacturing and packaging technologies through 2030, as demand for specialised AI processors continues to rise.

Marcus Bokkerink has argued that Britain should use its digital-market powers more firmly, while the Competition and Markets Authority points to recent action involving Google, Apple and Microsoft.

The new taskforce will direct the Government’s artificial-intelligence strategy, support public-sector adoption and assume responsibility for the AI Security Institute.

Complaints submitted to Ofcom fell to six per 100,000 broadband customers during the first quarter of 2026, compared with 40 per 100,000 at the 2011 peak.

The regulator says its enforcement action led an overseas forum to restrict access for the vast majority of UK users, but the case has exposed limits within the Online Safety Act.

PoliceAI will test tools that identify, organise and summarise large volumes of digital evidence, but human judgement will remain essential to fair disclosure and defendants' rights.

AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Oracle have become the first technology providers placed under the United Kingdom's new Critical Third Parties oversight regime.