The latest published reporting from across Globtechwire.
Google will invest at least €13 billion in Finland over the next two years to expand AI and digital infrastructure, including new data centres, clean-energy projects and grid investments. The plan also includes a 22-year agreement with Fortum to secure power from Finland’s Loviisa nuclear plant.
Fujitsu has developed a working prototype of a diamond-spin quantum computer using tin-vacancy centers and photonic integrated circuits. The company says the architecture could help build modular quantum systems that scale more efficiently.
Indian space startup Agnikul Cosmos has opened two new facilities in Chennai to test complete rocket stages under flight-like conditions and manufacture critical components in-house. The infrastructure will support the company’s push toward reusable launch vehicles and its upcoming Mission-02.
OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, its latest flagship AI model, with stronger capabilities in computer use, coding, research and complex multi-step tasks. The model is also the company’s first to reach its “Critical” threshold for cybersecurity capabilities, prompting additional safeguards around deployment.
Generalist has raised nearly $200 million in fresh funding, taking the AI robotics startup's valuation to $3 billion as investment in physical AI accelerates.
Hungarian EdTech company BOOKR has raised €6.1 million in Series A funding as it prepares to expand its digital learning platform across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas.
John Ternus has taken charge of Apple’s first major product event since succeeding Tim Cook, putting the company’s new CEO in the spotlight as Apple launches its first foldable iPhone and expands its AI strategy.
UK-based CloudNC has raised $20 million to expand adoption of its AI-powered CNC machining software and develop new manufacturing tools. The company plans to launch Quote Agent later this year to automate job quoting and estimating for machine shops.
The UAE is investing $1 billion in a 50-satellite constellation developed by France-based Loft Orbital, bringing AI processing directly into orbit. The project will target real-time applications including wildfire detection, infrastructure monitoring and advanced security surveillance.
The U.S. government has finalized $775 million in CHIPS Act awards for quantum computing and semiconductor manufacturing, taking minority equity stakes in five recipients. GlobalFoundries will receive up to $375 million, while Rigetti, D-Wave, PsiQuantum and Quantinuum will each receive up to $100 million.
JD.com plans to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous vehicles and 100,000 delivery drones over the next five years as it moves toward a largely automated logistics network. The company also plans to build 80 robotics hubs and retrain frontline workers for technical roles.
Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have developed a quantum low-density parity-check code that brings key design principles from classical error-correction theory into quantum computing. Their simulated code protects 4,612 logical qubits using 9,216 physical qubits and shows error-correction performance close to a classical theoretical benchmark.
Amazon has raised £4.25 billion, or about $5.76 billion, in its first-ever sterling bond sale as major technology companies seek new sources of funding for the AI infrastructure boom. The four-part deal attracted more than £10.65 billion in final investor demand.
Microsoft has released its largest Patch Tuesday security update on record, addressing 964 customer-relevant vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, Azure, Exchange and other products. The update also fixes two Windows zero-days that attackers were already exploiting to gain SYSTEM-level privileges.
OpenAI is expanding its AI business into chip design, life sciences and financial services as it looks to deliver more specialized systems to enterprise customers. CFO Sarah Friar said OpenAI used its own models to take its Jalapeño AI chip to tape-out in nine months and claimed its lower-cost Luna model can be cheaper than some Chinese open-source alternatives.
CVC Capital Partners has named TPG veteran Todd Sisitsky and its president Peter Rutland as future co-CEOs, with the leadership transition scheduled for the first quarter of 2028. Current CEO Rob Lucas will step down from the role after leading the firm through its 2024 IPO.
SUGAR Cosmetics has raised ₹144.5 crore from existing investor A91 Partners as the beauty brand faces a sharp valuation reset. The latest funding comes after revenue fell 20% and net losses nearly doubled in FY25.
Isar Aerospace has secured a €197.8 million contract from the European Space Agency under the European Launcher Challenge, supporting the development of its launch vehicles and expansion of launch infrastructure. Days later, its Spectrum rocket successfully reached orbit from Norway, completing the programme’s first major milestone.
TDK has launched new 100V X7R multilayer ceramic capacitors with 10μF capacitance in the compact 3225 package. The low-resistance, soft-termination components are designed for 48V power systems in AI servers, humanoid robots, electric vehicles and industrial equipment.
Agility Robotics has disclosed $1.78 million in 2025 sales as it prepares to go public through a proposed merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI. The SEC filing also reveals a $140 million operating loss, more than 65,000 hours of Digit deployments and a pipeline of more than $300 million in multi-year orders for its next-generation humanoid.
AI coding startup Cognition has raised more than $2 billion in a Series E funding round at a $48 billion valuation. The company behind the Devin coding agent has nearly doubled its valuation since May as annualised revenue approaches $900 million.
Security researchers uncovered a cross-account communication channel in ChatGPT that could secretly execute attacker-controlled tasks using a victim’s session. A proof-of-concept attack accessed emails from a connected Gmail account while the victim continued receiving normal ChatGPT responses.
Palantir has selected AI cloud provider Nebius as its preferred sovereign AI infrastructure partner in a new strategic collaboration. The companies will combine Palantir’s AI software with Nebius computing and inference infrastructure, giving eligible customers greater control over their models, data and computing resources.
Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis has stepped away from the lab’s day-to-day CEO role to become its chair and Alphabet’s chief scientist. Koray Kavukcuoglu will take over operational leadership as Google faces growing pressure to accelerate its frontier AI development.
Portuguese digital health company Hope Care has raised €6 million in Series A funding to expand its remote patient monitoring platform across Europe. The company is targeting new deployments in Germany and Romania while scaling existing operations in Portugal, France and Switzerland.
Samsung Electronics and ASML are expanding their long-running partnership to develop next-generation semiconductor manufacturing technology, including larger 12-inch photomasks for High-NA EUV systems. The move is aimed at enabling more efficient production of increasingly large and complex AI and data-centre chips.
XPeng has commissioned a dedicated production line for its IRON humanoid robot in Guangzhou, moving the project from prototype development into production-line manufacturing. The company plans to begin mass production by the end of 2026, with commercial deliveries expected in 2027.
Kairos Power has completed the first phase of testing on a non-nuclear mockup of its planned Hermes 2 reactor cavity in Tennessee. The work is testing modular radiation shielding and remote maintenance systems before the company moves further into reactor construction.
French AI company Mistral has raised €3 billion in a Series D round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion, or about $24 billion. The funding will support frontier AI research, computing infrastructure and the company’s international expansion.
More than 220 million passenger and crew records were exposed through a Vietnam-linked Advance Passenger Information System database. The data included passport numbers, dates of birth and detailed flight information covering travel records from 2017 to 2026.
