Google announced Tuesday that it will build a data center in Minnesota that’s backed by 1. 9 gigawatts of clean power, including a massive 300-megawatt battery made by startup Form Energy. The new data center, Google’s first in Minnesota, will be located in Pine Island, about an hour southeast of …

Peter Williams, a former U. defense contractor boss, was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years in prison for stealing and selling his former company’s hacking and surveillance tools to a Russian firm. Reporters with Bloomberg and Cyberscoop first reported Williams’ sentencing. Williams was the general manager of Trenchant, a division …

Stripe is considering a deal to buy some or all of PayPal Holdings, sources told Bloomberg, though talks are still in their very early stages and the deal may not happen. The news comes the same day Stripe released its annual letter, giving updates on the business. The big news …

Consumers probably think of Uber as a ride-hailing and food delivery company. But in the eyes of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber is really just a giant code base with engineers that are “literally the builders of the company. ” In fact, Uber’s engineers have gone so far as to replace …

Apple is launching new tools to comply with the growing number of age-verification laws both in the U. As part of the changes, Apple will block the downloads of apps rated 18+ in Brazil, Australia, and Singapore, while also rolling out other features to comply with laws in Utah and …

Large language models have a problem: they are large. Multiverse Computing, a Spanish startup, is addressing this issue with compressed models that aim to close the gap between what frontier models can do and what companies can actually afford to deploy. The secret sauce is CompactifAI, a compression technology inspired …

Wayve’s self-driving tech has attracted a diverse set of investors in the company’s latest $1. 2 billion funding round, including three automakers, top venture and institutional firms, and returning backers Microsoft, Nvidia, and Uber. The total raise could reach $1. 5 billion thanks to another $300 million from Uber contingent …

MatX, a chip startup founded by two former Google hardware engineers, has raised a $500 million Series B led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, an investment fund formed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner. The company’s goal is to make its processors 10 times better at training LLMs and …

Tech giants’ efforts to ramp up AI adoption in India may be about to hit a turning point, as companies end free promotions with hopes to convert the world’s fourth-largest economy into a windfall of paid subscribers. India became the world’s largest market for generative AI app downloads in 2025, …

A bomb scare at the Australian prime minister's home originated from written threats directed at a Chinese dance and music group banned by Beijing. In emails seen by local media, performers of the Shen Yun group were told to cancel their upcoming Australian shows or risk explosives being detonated at …