Nvidia supplier Hon Hai posts 40% sales jump on AI server demand
Nvidia supplier Hon Hai posts 40% sales jump on AI server demand

Hon Hai, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant known as Foxconn, has reported a bigger-than-expected 40% jump in quarterly sales on demand for AI servers. The Nvidia supplier said in a statement on Sunday that AI rack shipments should maintain the…

Mistral CEO warns closed AI models give providers ‘immense leverage’ over your business
Mistral CEO warns closed AI models give providers ‘immense leverage’ over your business

Arthur Mensch, cofounder and chief executive of French AI lab Mistral, has urged enterprise leaders to abandon closed AI models. In a LinkedIn post, he argued that closed providers are now forcing data retention and gaining “immense leverage” over thei…

NHS App will use AI to triage patients as part of £10bn tech overhaul
NHS App will use AI to triage patients as part of £10bn tech overhaul

The NHS will use AI inside its app to direct patients in England to the right services, the government has announced. The tool will assess symptoms and work out whether someone needs a GP appointment, a pharmacy visit, or a trip to A&E. The update …

India’s CG Semi starts commercial chip production at $870M Gujarat plant
India’s CG Semi starts commercial chip production at $870M Gujarat plant

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi’s chip assembly and testing plant in Sanand, Gujarat. The facility will initially turn out 200 million chips a year, according to ANI, with plans to scale to 500 million. The…

Macron and Modi are winning the AI infrastructure race with text messages and personal meetings
Macron and Modi are winning the AI infrastructure race with text messages and personal meetings

The global race for AI infrastructure has become a contest of personal relationships. French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have emerged as its most aggressive practitioners, personally courting the heads of the world…

India summons Meta over Instagram ads promoting child sexual abuse material
India summons Meta over Instagram ads promoting child sexual abuse material

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will summon Meta executives after a BBC investigation found that Instagram had been running paid advertisements promoting child sexual abuse material to users in the country. Union IT Minister …

OpenAI apparently never visited the site of its flagship UK AI project
OpenAI apparently never visited the site of its flagship UK AI project

OpenAI apparently failed to visit a key site earmarked for its Stargate UK data centre project before the initiative was announced, the Guardian reported on Friday. The revelation deepens questions about whether the UK government’s flagship AI infrastr…

Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code
Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code

Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of esc…

The other Dyson empire, measured in acres
The other Dyson empire, measured in acres

Inside a glasshouse the size of roughly 20 football pitches, on the flat black soil of Lincolnshire, strawberry plants ride a Ferris wheel. The wheels stand about 5.5 metres tall, and each one weighs close to half a tonne. They turn slowly, all day, ca…

GoDaddy warns India’s fake-site crackdown could damage the internet
GoDaddy warns India’s fake-site crackdown could damage the internet

The world’s biggest seller of website addresses says a court order in India could make the internet less safe. GoDaddy is fighting new rules meant to stop fake sites impersonating famous brands. It warns the cure could expose millions of legitimate sit…