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Dutch company ASML is $300bn from a trillion. AI could close the gap

ASML has spent 2026 getting steadily, expensively larger. The Dutch company whose machines print the world’s most advanced chips is now Europe’s most valuable listed business, worth around $700bn (€600bn), and enough of the investors who own it now say the next round number out loud that the question has stopped sounding fanciful: could ASML […]

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Google workers rally at Mountain View HQ, demanding a floor under their jobs

Just after 9am on Thursday, roughly 100 Google workers gathered outside the company’s Mountain View headquarters, placards in hand, to press a demand that would once have sounded quaint: let us keep our jobs. The rally, organised by the Alphabet Workers Union, ended with the delivery of a petition signed by more than 4,500 staff to […]

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Mick Jagger says AI is fine for musicians, as long as it does not sound like him

Mick Jagger has given a qualified blessing to musicians who reach for artificial intelligence, on the strict condition that whatever comes out is genuinely their own. “If someone wants to make music by AI, go ahead,” he told Billboard in a cover story published this week. “But it has to be original.” The line arrives quickly, though, […]

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Xi tells World AI Conference no single country should monopolise AI

Xi Jinping told the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday that artificial intelligence “should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,” casting Beijing as the patron of open, shared technology. The line, aimed at the developing world and, by implication, at Washington, set the tone for a speech […]

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Network School founder says Malaysia immigration probe risks its tech ambitions

Balaji Srinivasan built Network School as a working prototype of the “network state,” his theory that an internet country of engineers and founders can eventually do the work of a real one. This week a real one reminded him who still holds the passports. The former Coinbase chief technology officer and Andreessen Horowitz partner said on 15 […]

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Microsoft is coaching its salespeople to talk down the models it still runs on

Microsoft executives spent an internal meeting on Tuesday teaching the sales force how to run down OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, which would be unremarkable except that two of those companies supply the models inside Microsoft’s own products. The session was billed as a strategy kickoff for the fiscal year that began this month, and it leaned […]

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WHO warns Europe’s AI health governance gap is becoming irreversible

Hans Kluge opened his speech in Lisbon with a number, which is not how the World Health Organization usually does this. “Let me start with a number: 8%,” the WHO Regional Director for Europe told delegates on 15 July. “That’s the share of countries in the WHO European Region that have a health-specific AI strategy. Just 8%.” […]

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Europe’s best earnings quarter in three years is an energy story, not an AI one

European companies are heading into their strongest quarterly earnings season in more than three years, and almost none of it is about AI. STOXX 600 constituents are forecast to grow second-quarter profits by 15.3% year on year, according to LSEG I/B/E/S data compiled by analyst Tajinder Dhillon and published on 9 July. That works out at €156.8bn […]

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Jensen Huang thanks Sega for the $5m that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy in 1995

Nvidia and Sega go back 30 years. Jensen Huang flew to Tokyo to thank the games maker for a $5m investment that saved his company from bankruptcy in 1995. “If not for what Sega did for Nvidia, Nvidia would not be here today.” That is Jensen Huang, chief executive of the world’s most valuable company, […]

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Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.

The notice read like housekeeping. Take screenshots while you still can, ByteDance told Doubao users, or export the text. On 15 July the custom agents they had built stopped working, and what is left is a read-only archive with a closing date attached: 15 October, after which the company says the data will be handled […]

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