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Meta signs its first India data-centre deal, leasing a 168MW AI facility from Reliance

Meta has agreed to lease a 168-megawatt, AI-ready data centre in India from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, its first such facility in the country. Reliance will build the site in Jamnagar, Gujarat, and Meta will lease it with an option to scale, the companies said on Tuesday. “This world-class facility in Jamnagar will help us […]

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Amazon’s UK investment passes £1bn in Northamptonshire with 4,000 jobs, and a floor full of robots

Amazon is deepening its UK investment, putting more than £1bn into two sites in Northamptonshire and adding over 4,000 jobs in one of the largest single-county commitments of its £40bn UK programme. The company has opened a £500M fulfilment centre in Northampton and confirmed a second £500M facility in nearby Kettering, due to open this […]

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Salesforce acquires m3ter to add consumption-based billing to Agentforce

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire m3ter, a London-based metering and rating platform built for consumption-based billing. The deal will integrate m3ter’s infrastructure natively into Agentforce Revenue Management, giving Salesforce customers the ability to launch, track, and bill usage-based and outcome-based pricing models without leaving the platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. The […]

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Apple and Google both want to monitor the web for you

Two of the biggest names in tech now want to watch the web on your behalf. Within a month, both Google and Apple announced features that monitor web pages and tell you when something changes. Both claim they will use AI to alert you when a condition is met and reduce false positives. At its […]

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NinjaOne’s valuation more than doubles to $12.3bn, and it says it didn’t even need the money

Most startups raise money because they need it. NinjaOne has just raised more than $400m to make the opposite point. The Austin-based IT-operations company said on Tuesday that a fresh round of Series C extensions has more than doubled its valuation to $12.3bn, up from the $5bn it was worth only 16 months ago. The […]

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Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.

Intel will arrive at Computex 2026 in Taipei on 2 June with something it has not had in a decade: a product in every computing category built on a single manufacturing story. Panther Lake, the laptop chip launched at CES in January, is expanding to handhelds with Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme processors designed […]

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Meta missed mobile. It is building the operating system for humanoids

Lerrel Pinto co-founded Fauna Robotics, a startup that built an approachable bipedal robot called Sprout. He left in 2025. Amazon acquired Fauna in March, along with its 50 employees and its $50,000, three-and-a-half-foot-tall dancing humanoid, to enter the consumer robotics market. Pinto then co-founded Assured Robot Intelligence with Xiaolong Wang, a former Nvidia researcher and associate […]

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Nebius paid $643 million for 20 people because inference is where the money is

Nebius Group, the Dutch cloud computing company that split from Russian internet provider Yandex in 2024, has agreed to acquire Eigen AI for approximately $643 million in stock and cash. The deal, announced on 1 May, is for a 20-person startup founded by alumni of MIT’s HAN Lab. In a market where the largest AI […]

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OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.

OpenAI called the report “prime clickbait.” It said its business is “firing on all cylinders.” It issued a joint statement from CEO Sam Altman and CFO Sarah Friar declaring they are “totally aligned.” None of it worked. On Tuesday, after the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI had missed internal revenue and user growth targets, […]

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Amazon tried selling office software and failed. Now it is betting that office software itself is obsolete.

Amazon Web Services announced a set of AI-powered business applications on Tuesday that move the company from selling cloud infrastructure to selling the software that runs on it, a strategic shift that puts Amazon in direct competition with Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce in the $300 billion software-as-a-service market. The new products, Amazon Connect Decisions for […]

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