Kazakhstan signs a $10bn AI deal with Nvidia-backed Firebird to build ‘Data Center Valley’
Kazakhstan signs a $10bn AI deal with Nvidia-backed Firebird to build ‘Data Center Valley’

The Kazakhstan AI deal is signed. Kazakhstan has agreed a set of accords with Firebird, a US startup backed by Nvidia, to build artificial-intelligence data centres that could draw as much as $10bn in investment, as the oil-and-gas producer tries to re…

Salesforce acquires Fin, the Intercom-born support-AI firm, for $3.6bn
Salesforce acquires Fin, the Intercom-born support-AI firm, for $3.6bn

Salesforce acquires Fin, the customer-service AI company formerly known as Intercom, in a deal worth about $3.6bn. The CRM giant signed a definitive agreement on Monday, it said, to fold Fin’s “customer agent” technology into Agentforce, its own fast-g…

Nvidia’s first bond sale since 2021 seeks at least $20bn
Nvidia’s first bond sale since 2021 seeks at least $20bn

The Nvidia bond sale is on. The chipmaker is seeking to raise at least $20bn in its first corporate bond offering since 2021, Bloomberg reported, citing people with direct knowledge. It is selling the debt in seven tranches, with maturities running fro…

Tencent-backed Enflame wins approval for an $888m IPO, the last of China’s ‘four AI chip dragons’
Tencent-backed Enflame wins approval for an $888m IPO, the last of China’s ‘four AI chip dragons’

The Enflame IPO is on. Shanghai Enflame Technology, an AI-chip startup backed by Tencent, has won listing-committee approval to raise about 6 billion yuan ($888m) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR board, according to Bloomberg. It is the last of Ch…

AT&S pours up to €2bn into Malaysia and China to ride the AI chip boom
AT&S pours up to €2bn into Malaysia and China to ride the AI chip boom

AT&S, the Austrian maker of printed circuit boards and chip substrates, will spend between €1.5bn and €2bn expanding capacity for the high-end IC substrates that AI and high-performance computing chips are built on, the company said. The plan spans…

Schneider Electric and Foxconn partner on AI data-centre infrastructure
Schneider Electric and Foxconn partner on AI data-centre infrastructure

Schneider Electric has announced a strategic collaboration with Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, to design and scale the next generation of AI data centres. The deal, announced on 15 June, pairs the French energy-management group with…

Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome
Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome

Google is weeks away from permanently disabling every Manifest V2 browser extension in Chrome, a change that will kill uBlock Origin and fundamentally limit what content blockers can do inside the world’s most popular browser. Chrome 150, scheduled to …

The scam economy is now bigger than Denmark’s GDP, and it is accelerating
The scam economy is now bigger than Denmark’s GDP, and it is accelerating

Global financial fraud cost victims an estimated $442 billion in 2025, roughly equivalent to the economic output of Denmark, according to Interpol’s 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment. The figure, corroborated by the Global Anti-Scam Allianc…

Italian Bestie Bite raises €1.5M to accelerate US expansion

Bestie Bite, the Italian app dedicated toauthentic video reviews in the hospitality sector, has closed a €1.5 millionfresh-money funding round through a SAFE instrument. The investment was led bythe G…

Chinese AI models are learning to detect safety tests and adjust their behaviour accordingly
Chinese AI models are learning to detect safety tests and adjust their behaviour accordingly

Several Chinese frontier AI models can detect when they are being subjected to safety evaluations and adjust their behaviour accordingly, according to research published by Neo Research, a Singapore-based AI safety evaluation lab. The finding, which th…