Microsoft cuts hundreds of Azure jobs in China as the borderless cloud splinters
Microsoft cuts hundreds of Azure jobs in China as the borderless cloud splinters

The cloud was supposed to make geography irrelevant. Microsoft’s latest round of job cuts in China shows how quickly that promise is coming apart. Microsoft is laying off hundreds of staff at its Azure cloud unit in China, according to affected employe…

France’s ‘sovereign’ messenger Tchap was breached, and officials and the hacker disagree on how badly
France’s ‘sovereign’ messenger Tchap was breached, and officials and the hacker disagree on how badly

France built its own encrypted messenger so civil servants would not have to trust WhatsApp or Telegram. Now that messenger has been breached, and the government and the attacker cannot agree on how much was taken. France’s National Cybersecurity Agenc…

China is drafting a $295bn plan to build AI data centres, and to lock Nvidia out of them
China is drafting a $295bn plan to build AI data centres, and to lock Nvidia out of them

China wants to win the AI race on its own hardware. A new plan shows just how much it is willing to spend, and how far it will go to cut American chips out of the picture. Beijing is drafting a blueprint to spend around 2 trillion yuan ($295bn) over th…

Prince William is bringing homelessness prevention to London Tech Week for the first time
Prince William is bringing homelessness prevention to London Tech Week for the first time

The Prince of Wales will attend London Tech Week on Wednesday for the first time, chairing a panel on how data and technology can identify people at risk of homelessness before they lose their homes. It is the first time homelessness prevention has app…

BYD says demand is double its capacity, but its sales data tells a different story
BYD says demand is double its capacity, but its sales data tells a different story

BYD’s executive vice president Stella Li told CNBC on Monday that China’s EV market will push to close to 80% penetration, a bullish forecast that contrasts sharply with rival Nio, whose chief executive William Li said last month that the industry’s “g…

Jensen Huang won’t testify before the Senate on Nvidia’s China chip sales. He offered a tour of headquarters instead.
Jensen Huang won’t testify before the Senate on Nvidia’s China chip sales. He offered a tour of headquarters instead.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declined an invitation from Senator Elizabeth Warren to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday about the chipmaker’s sales to China and US export controls. Warren had asked Huang to appear under oath to disc…

Apple previews its biggest parental controls update in years, weeks before UK and US regulatory deadlines
Apple previews its biggest parental controls update in years, weeks before UK and US regulatory deadlines

Apple previewed a suite of new parental controls at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing tools that give parents more granular authority over what their children can see, who they can contact, and how long they can spend in apps. The updates, arriving this…

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 …