Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud
Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud

Airbus is pulling some of its most sensitive systems off Amazon Web Services and onto a European cloud. The aerospace group has picked French provider Scaleway to host them, Scaleway said. The move covers the applications Airbus needs to keep running a…

Brunswick’s AutoCaptain Takes Over Boat Docking With AI Help

Brunswick Corp’s Simrad AutoCaptain is taking the scare out of docking and undocking recreational boats by doing the task autonomously using AI and other technology.

Coca-Cola halted fairlife’s US production after a ransomware attack
Coca-Cola halted fairlife’s US production after a ransomware attack

Coca-Cola says its fairlife dairy unit was hit by ransomware, and has suspended all US production while it investigates. A ransomware attack has stopped production at one of Coca-Cola’s biggest dairy brands. The company said fairlife found unauthorised…

A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War

The CEO of Foundation Future Industries, which counts the president’s son as its chief strategy adviser, tells WIRED it’s exploring some “kinetic things.”

Feds Put Pressure On Developers To Make Robotaxis Safer

A federal official wants developers of robotaxis to find ways to stop them from interfering or colliding with emergency vehicles, but some blame more than the cars.

SoftBank lines up a new $60bn bond to keep its OpenAI bet funded
SoftBank lines up a new $60bn bond to keep its OpenAI bet funded

Sixty billion dollars is a lot of bond, even by SoftBank Group’s standards. The Japanese conglomerate is reportedly preparing to raise up to that much in fresh debt, according to Bloomberg, a target that would eclipse anything Masayoshi Son’s firm has …

Mitsubishi Electric weighs power-chip merger with Rohm and Toshiba
Mitsubishi Electric weighs power-chip merger with Rohm and Toshiba

Japan’s three biggest power-chip makers want to become one company, and the wiring is proving harder to rearrange than the ambition. Mitsubishi Electric is exploring a combination of its power-semiconductor operations with those of Rohm and Toshiba, ac…

Databricks hits $188bn valuation in Coatue-led round, landing above its own $175bn talks
Databricks hits $188bn valuation in Coatue-led round, landing above its own $175bn talks

$188bn is a large number for a company that keeps insisting it is in no rush to go public. That is the valuation Databricks has reached in a new funding round led by Coatue Management, a figure first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The mark sits w…

Google’s record EU fine won’t just punish Google. It will quietly shrink what European taxpayers owe Brussels.
Google’s record EU fine won’t just punish Google. It will quietly shrink what European taxpayers owe Brussels.

Google has finally paid its record EU antitrust fine, and the money is about to do something unexpected. The €4.6bn will flow into the EU’s central budget and reduce what member states owe Brussels, Politico reports. The mechanism is dry, but the effec…

PayPal board rebuffs $53bn Stripe and Advent bid as too low, sources say
PayPal board rebuffs $53bn Stripe and Advent bid as too low, sources say

PayPal’s board reckons that a $53bn (£39bn) joint takeover approach from Stripe and the private-equity firm Advent International sells the payments pioneer short, the latest twist in a fast-moving round of payments consolidation. People familiar with t…