Cipher Digital raises $810 million in junk bonds to build another Amazon data centre in Texas
Cipher Digital raises $810 million in junk bonds to build another Amazon data centre in Texas

Cipher Digital is raising $810 million from a junk-bond sale to finance a data centre in West Texas that Amazon will lease for 15 years, according to Bloomberg. The deal, pitched at a yield of about 6.25 per cent, will fund the remaining construction c…

Pentagon adds Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree to its Chinese military companies list
Pentagon adds Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree to its Chinese military companies list

The Pentagon has added Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and robotics company Unitree to a list of entities it says support the Chinese military, the Department of Defense announced on Monday. The updated 1260H list now names 188 companies that the Pentagon identif…

For the second time, Apple Intelligence is delayed in Europe, and this time there is no timeline
For the second time, Apple Intelligence is delayed in Europe, and this time there is no timeline

Apple announced on Monday that Siri AI, the rebuilt assistant it unveiled hours earlier at WWDC 2026, will not be available on iPhone or iPad in the European Union when iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 ship later this year. The company said EU regulators rejected …

Nashville Zoo says a proposed AI data centre could stop its endangered leopards from breeding
Nashville Zoo says a proposed AI data centre could stop its endangered leopards from breeding

The Nashville Zoo has launched a campaign to block a 69,000-square-foot AI data centre proposed by Georgia-based DC BLOX on a site roughly 50 yards from the zoo’s animal enclosures. A petition against the project has drawn nearly 300,000 signatures in …

Apple finally ships its AI do-over: Siri AI, a standalone app, and a three-tier privacy stack
Apple finally ships its AI do-over: Siri AI, a standalone app, and a three-tier privacy stack

Apple used its annual developer conference on Monday to unveil Siri AI, the most significant overhaul of its voice assistant in 15 years, rebuilt from the ground up on a custom Google Gemini model. The WWDC 2026 keynote at Apple Park also marked Tim Co…

AI will make content infinite. Human taste will decide what matters.
AI will make content infinite. Human taste will decide what matters.

Artificial intelligence is accelerating content creation at a pace few people could have imagined even a few years ago, yet the brands that earn lasting relevance in the years ahead will not be distinguished by how much content they produce. They will …

Amazon raises C$14 billion in the largest Canadian dollar bond sale on record to fund AI infrastructure
Amazon raises C$14 billion in the largest Canadian dollar bond sale on record to fund AI infrastructure

Amazon is raising C$14 billion, approximately $10 billion, from investment-grade bonds denominated in Canadian dollars, according to Bloomberg. The deal is the largest corporate bond offering ever in the currency, surpassing the C$8.5 billion Alphabet …

The growing divide between surface-level AI adoption and meaningful impact across safety-critical industries
The growing divide between surface-level AI adoption and meaningful impact across safety-critical industries

Artificial intelligence has rapidly moved from experimentation to mainstream business adoption. Around 78% of organizations reported using AI in 2025, reflecting how quickly the technology has become embedded across business operations. Yet, only 25% o…

Healthcare’s $97bn staffing problem just won an AI training startup a $55M round
Healthcare’s $97bn staffing problem just won an AI training startup a $55M round

America’s hospitals are spending around $97bn a year renting staff they cannot train fast enough. Stepful thinks AI can fix the supply side, and investors have just handed it $55mn to try. The New York startup has raised a Series C led by healthcare-an…

The UK just collected billions in AI pledges on day one of London Tech Week
The UK just collected billions in AI pledges on day one of London Tech Week

London Tech Week opened the way these events increasingly do: with a leaderboard of investment pledges. By the end of the first morning, the UK had collected several billion pounds in AI commitments, most of it aimed at the unglamorous machinery of com…