The $2 trillion AI infrastructure problem no one is talking about, and the engineer solving it
The $2 trillion AI infrastructure problem no one is talking about, and the engineer solving it

The AI infrastructure earnings calls of the past eight quarters have given the public a precise vocabulary for what the build-out costs in capital. Hyperscaler GPU procurement. Power purchase agreements. Real-estate footprints. The vocabulary they have…

Munich startup ERC System unveils Victor, a heavy-lift cargo eVTOL, at ILA Berlin
Munich startup ERC System unveils Victor, a heavy-lift cargo eVTOL, at ILA Berlin

Munich-area startup ERC System has unveiled Victor, an uncrewed hybrid-electric cargo eVTOL designed for defence, logistics, and disaster response, at ILA Berlin 2026. The company says the aircraft can carry a 250kg payload over a range of 300km at a c…

TSMC does not rule out price rises as inflation pushes up chip manufacturing costs
TSMC does not rule out price rises as inflation pushes up chip manufacturing costs

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest chipmaker, told the BBC that inflation is pushing up its costs and did not rule out raising prices. CFO Wendell Huang said the company would not impose sudden “fourfold, fivefold” increase…

MIT’s ultrasound wristband tracks every finger movement and lets you control a robot hand in real time
MIT’s ultrasound wristband tracks every finger movement and lets you control a robot hand in real time

Engineers at MIT have built an ultrasound wristband that can track 22 degrees of freedom in the human hand and use that data to control a robotic hand in real time, according to research published in Nature Electronics in March 2026. The device uses a …

Rem3dy Health raises £14M at £84M valuation to take 3D-printed personalised vitamins global
Rem3dy Health raises £14M at £84M valuation to take 3D-printed personalised vitamins global

Birmingham-based Rem3dy Health, the parent company of personalised vitamin brand Nourished, has raised £14 million at a valuation of £84 million in a round backed by a mix of global strategic investors. The round was led by Japanese beverage and wellne…

Two Russian APT groups are exploiting a WinRAR flaw patched nearly a year ago to hit Ukraine
Two Russian APT groups are exploiting a WinRAR flaw patched nearly a year ago to hit Ukraine

Two Russian state-linked hacking groups are actively exploiting a path traversal vulnerability in WinRAR that was patched nearly a year ago, using it to deploy credential-stealing malware against Ukrainian government and military targets, according to …

Rivian begins R2 deliveries as it bets a shrinking US EV market is an opportunity, not a threat
Rivian begins R2 deliveries as it bets a shrinking US EV market is an opportunity, not a threat

Rivian began handing over the first R2 SUVs to paying customers on Tuesday, opening a new chapter for a company that has burned through billions of dollars trying to prove it can build electric vehicles at scale. The R2 starts at $57,990 for the Perfor…

Apple’s real AI story isn’t Siri: it’s a 20-billion-parameter model that runs from your iPhone’s flash
Apple’s real AI story isn’t Siri: it’s a 20-billion-parameter model that runs from your iPhone’s flash

The headline from Apple’s developer conference was a reborn Siri. The more interesting story sits underneath it: the AI models Apple built to run the thing, one of which is far too big to fit in an iPhone’s memory, yet runs on the device anyway. In a t…

An ex-scooter founder raised $5M to build AI data centres in orbit, where the sun never sets
An ex-scooter founder raised $5M to build AI data centres in orbit, where the sun never sets

AI is running out of power, and out of places to put it, on Earth. A Los Angeles startup wants to solve both problems by leaving the planet. Orbital, a space-infrastructure company building AI data centres in low Earth orbit, has raised a $5mn oversubs…

A UK firm trained a “sovereign” NHS triage AI that it says rivals Claude, at a fraction of the cost
A UK firm trained a “sovereign” NHS triage AI that it says rivals Claude, at a fraction of the cost

The NHS does not lack for AI pitches. What it has lacked is one that keeps patient data inside the country. A British software firm says it now has it. OneAdvanced, the Birmingham-based SaaS company whose software touches more than 40 million NHS patie…