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 …

NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang calls Taiwan the ‘epicentre’ of the AI revolution as spending hits $150bn a year
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang calls Taiwan the ‘epicentre’ of the AI revolution as spending hits $150bn a year

NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang told a Taipei audience at Computex 2026 on Wednesday that Taiwan is the “epicentre” of the AI revolution, and that the company’s annual spending on the island will reach roughly $150bn a year. The number, the highest…

Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions
Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions

The Tech Sovereignty Package arrives on Wednesday, but the EU is still arguing internally over what ‘digital sovereignty’ should actually require. The European Commission is preparing to publish its Tech Sovereignty Package on Wednesday afternoon, the …

The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a …

Dropbox founder Drew Houston steps down as CEO after 19 years as the company he built gets squeezed by Google and Apple
Dropbox founder Drew Houston steps down as CEO after 19 years as the company he built gets squeezed by Google and Apple

  Drew Houston, the co-founder who built Dropbox from a Y Combinator demo into a company with more than 700 million registered users, is stepping down as chief executive. Ashraf Alkarmi, Dropbox’s current head of product, has been named co-CEO effectiv…

Brussels plans to ringfence two-thirds of EU mobile-satellite spectrum for European firms
Brussels plans to ringfence two-thirds of EU mobile-satellite spectrum for European firms

The proposal expected to be announced on Wednesday would leave Starlink and Amazon’s Kuiper able to bid only for the remaining third of the bloc’s 2 GHz mobile-satellite band. The European Commission is preparing to reserve two-thirds of the bloc’s fut…

Stord raises $250 million to give independent brands the shipping speed they need to compete with Amazon
Stord raises $250 million to give independent brands the shipping speed they need to compete with Amazon

Stord, a logistics technology company that helps retailers manage inventory, checkout, and fulfillment, has raised $250 million in a Series F round that values the company at $3 billion. The round was led by Strike Capital with participation from Found…