Pentagon gives Dell a $9.7bn contract to consolidate Microsoft licences across the military
Pentagon gives Dell a $9.7bn contract to consolidate Microsoft licences across the military

The five-year deal consolidates scattered Microsoft 365 and cloud subscriptions for the Defense Department, intelligence community and Coast Guard. Dell, not Microsoft, is the prime contractor. The US Department of Defense has awarded Dell a five-year,…

Spotify and Netflix are paying Jay Shetty up to $100 million to take his podcast off YouTube
Spotify and Netflix are paying Jay Shetty up to $100 million to take his podcast off YouTube

Jay Shetty, the former Hindu monk turned self-help podcaster, has signed a deal to bring the video version of his show On Purpose exclusively to Spotify and Netflix. The arrangement is worth as much as $100 million over multiple years, according to peo…

Meta is charging for its AI chatbot for the first time, starting at $7.99 a month
Meta is charging for its AI chatbot for the first time, starting at $7.99 a month

Meta is selling subscriptions to its AI chatbot for the first time, introducing two paid tiers that put it in direct competition with OpenAI and Google for consumer AI revenue. Meta One Plus costs $7.99 per month and Meta One Premium costs $19.99 per m…

ElevenLabs is bringing Stan Lee back from the dead with AI voice cloning and digital cameos
ElevenLabs is bringing Stan Lee back from the dead with AI voice cloning and digital cameos

ElevenLabs has struck a deal with Stan Lee Universe to add Stan Lee’s voice and likeness to its platform, making the late Marvel co-creator the latest deceased cultural icon to be digitally resurrected by AI. The partnership puts Lee’s voice on the Ele…

Spotify now lets listeners clip and share moments from any podcast
Spotify now lets listeners clip and share moments from any podcast

Spotify has launched a feature called Podcast Clips that lets listeners select, trim, and share specific moments from podcast episodes. A new scissors icon in the Now Playing view opens a clipping tool where users can mark a segment of audio, preview i…

Vučić flew to Beijing for a $1.1bn Chinese investment, while Belgrade burned
Vučić flew to Beijing for a $1.1bn Chinese investment, while Belgrade burned

China’s $1.1bn AI, robotics and EV package for Serbia lands four days after 34,000 protesters filled the capital demanding early elections. Brussels has yet to develop a coherent response to either. On Saturday, tens of thousands of Serbians filled the…

Meet the speakers: Who is taking the stage at the TNW, Oneflow & Flexas gathering in Amsterdam?
Meet the speakers: Who is taking the stage at the TNW, Oneflow & Flexas gathering in Amsterdam?

Four guests, one question: when everyone has AI, what will actually make a SaaS company win? The panel on 3 June in Amsterdam will try to answer it. There is a moment, somewhere between the third and the fourth AI feature release of the quarter, when e…

SpaceX wins a $2.29bn Space Force contract for the Golden Dome backbone
SpaceX wins a $2.29bn Space Force contract for the Golden Dome backbone

The Space Data Network Backbone, built on Starshield satellites, is designed to link missile-defence sensors and interceptors in near real time. The US Space Force has awarded SpaceX a $2.29bn fixed-price contract to build the Space Data Network Backbo…

Samsung commits $1.5bn to a Vietnam chip-testing plant, with $2.5bn more on the table
Samsung commits $1.5bn to a Vietnam chip-testing plant, with $2.5bn more on the table

Samsung Electronics will invest 39 trillion dong, or about $1.5bn, in a semiconductor testing plant in Vietnam, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Construction has already begun in an industrial park 60 kilometres north of Hanoi, wit…

SK Hynix joins the trillion-dollar club, powered by Nvidia’s HBM4 orders
SK Hynix joins the trillion-dollar club, powered by Nvidia’s HBM4 orders

A 10%+ surge in Seoul trading on Wednesday pushed the Korean memory firm past $1 trillion, making it the third chipmaker after Nvidia and TSMC to cross the line. SK Hynix’s market capitalisation pushed through $1 trillion in Seoul trading on Wednesday …