Breaking News: Technology
- Apple needs to deliver an AI-charged Siri so good it gets older iPhone users to upgrade - Apple has one more chance to get AI right after its failure in 2025.
- Softbank has fully funded $40 billion investment in OpenAI, sources tell CNBC - TechSoftbank has fully funded $40 billion investment in OpenAI, sources tell CNBCPublished Tue, Dec 30 20259:10 AM ESTUpdated 2 Min AgoSamantha Subin@samantha_s
- UK's Octopus Energy to spinoff AI unit Kraken at $8.65 billion valuation - British renewable energy startup Octopus Energy is set to spin out its AI tech unit Kraken Technologies, as an independent company valued at $8.65 billion.
- Meta acquires intelligent agent firm Manus, capping year of aggressive AI moves - Meta Platforms has acquired Manus, a Singapore-based developer of general-purpose AI agents, capping a year of massive spending on artificial intelligence.
- California's Ro Khanna faces Silicon Valley backlash after embracing wealth tax - A proposal to tax California billionaires at 5% of their wealth could land on the California ballot in November.
- DigitalBridge shares jump 50% after report SoftBank is in talks to acquire firm - The premarket move comes shortly after Bloomberg reported Japan's SoftBank was in advanced talks to acquire the data center investment firm.
- China to crack down on AI chatbots around suicide, gambling - The proposed rules come as Chinese artificial intelligence chatbot startups Minimax and Z.ai have this month filed for Hong Kong IPOs.
- From data center spas to servers in space: How the energy crunch is reshaping cloud computing - Data centre developers and designers are starting to get creative.
- One year on from the UK's grand AI plan: Has its infrastructure buildout been a success? - Hefty financial commitments from tech giants are positive signals, but big challenges remain for the U.K. to fulfil its ambitions.
- Europe at 'fork in the road' between AI competition and climate: fund managers - As power-hungry infrastructure scales and demand for electricity surges, friction between competition and climate goals becomes harder to ignore.