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Southeast Asia is planning four times the data centre capacity it runs

Southeast Asia has 306 data centres running and 173 more in the pipeline, according to figures published on Tuesday. The capacity being planned is nearly four times what is already operating. Southeast Asia data centre investment will rise from $15.72bn in 2025 to $35.08bn by 2031, according to Arizton. The Chicago research firm puts that […]

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Oura is seeking up to $3bn in an IPO that would value it above $16bn

Oura is targeting a September listing that would raise up to $3bn and value the smart ring maker at more than $16bn, according to Bloomberg, several months after the Finnish company filed confidentially for a US IPO. The mark would be a sharp step up from the $10.9bn valuation it carried last September, in a […]

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Meta hired Luke Metz seven months after OpenAI hired him back

Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, seven months after rejoining OpenAI. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the hire to Axios. Ina Fried reported it on Monday. Metz starts this week and reports to Alexandr Wang, who runs Meta’s AI effort. Three labs in under a year Metz left OpenAI in 2024 for […]

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Alibaba shares fell 8.4%. Then Joe Tsai and Eddie Wu went shopping

Alibaba’s two most senior executives bought about $15.3m of their own company’s shares on Monday. The stock had just fallen further than at any point in more than a year. Chairman Joe Tsai and chief executive Eddie Wu spent a combined HK$120m, according to filings with the Hong Kong exchange. What each of them bought […]

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Dear peasants: Sam Altman on how some of his rivals sell AI

Sam Altman says the industry has been too ambitious on AI timelines. He counts himself among the people who got it wrong. The OpenAI chief executive said so to the podcaster David Senra, in an episode released on Sunday. He was answering a question about someone else’s prediction. The claim he was pushing back on […]

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Dr Dre says only people who struggle to create are scared of AI

Dr Dre says he is using AI in the studio, and that he does not see it as a threat. The producer said so in an interview with the New York Times, published on Sunday. His longtime business partner Jimmy Iovine sat alongside him and went further. “I think the only people that see it […]

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The 28-year fight over who owns Linux is nearly over

A US appeals court has thrown out the last live claim in the long fight over who owns Linux. Simon Sharwood reported the ruling for The Register on Sunday. The dispute began in 1998. The company still fighting it, Xinuos, now has one long-shot move left. What the court decided Three judges of the US […]

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Europe’s EV share hit 25% in July as sales jumped 51%

Electric cars took a 25% share of European registrations in July, with sales up 51% year on year against 4.1% growth for the market as a whole. Chinese brands took 34% of plug-in hybrid sales, a segment EU countervailing duties do not currently cover. Electric cars have stopped being a minority interest in Europe. Registrations […]

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A mysterious app just showed up on your Android phone, and it’s watching your battery

An app called Android Pulse surfaced in Play Store update queues at the weekend, though Google has been distributing it since March and it now sits on more than 10 million devices. It is a diagnostic tool with no user interface that flags software consuming unusual system resources. Millions of Android owners spent the weekend […]

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