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…
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…
Meta removed nearly all traces of an unreleased facial recognition system from its smart glasses companion app on Friday, one day after WIRED reported that the software had been quietly embedded in an app installed on more than 50 million phones. The f…
The UK government used London Tech Week to announce a £1.1 billion AI Hardware Plan and a £200 million AI Adoption package, alongside reforms that will put AI into the justice system and a new data lab aimed at preventing homelessness. The announcement…
The European Commission has ordered Meta to “restore free access to WhatsApp for rival general purpose AI assistants” within five working days. The interim measures, announced on Tuesday, are designed to prevent what the Commission called “serious and …
The Dutch government will expand its investment-screening regime to cover six additional technologies, including artificial intelligence, from 1 January 2027. The rules will affect hundreds of companies, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs. “…
The British government has put its most contentious health-tech contract on notice. It is now formally reviewing the NHS’s £330mn deal with Palantir, and weighing whether to walk away in 2027. Technology minister Liz Kendall confirmed the review this w…
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 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 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…