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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, with operations scheduled to start in November 2027. The plant will be Samsung’s first dedicated chip-testing […]

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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 morning, on the back of a single-session rally of more than 10% that […]

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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 specific Taiwan-spend figure Huang has yet disclosed publicly, makes Nvidia’s commitment to the […]

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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 most concentrated single attempt yet to reduce European reliance on American cloud, AI and chip infrastructure. The package, according […]

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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 US-headquartered firm control over the platform that runs DigiD, the digital identity system used […]

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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 effective immediately. After a transition period, Houston will become executive chairman and Alkarmi will take […]

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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 future mobile-satellite-services spectrum for European operators, leaving Starlink, Amazon’s Project Kuiper and other non-EU companies […]

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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 Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins, Franklin Templeton, Baillie Gifford, G Squared, and Bond. The funding doubles Stord’s valuation […]

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xAI told staff to stop mingling with Cursor employees, weeks after they started working together

  Elon Musk’s xAI has told employees to limit their contact with staff from Cursor , the AI coding startup that SpaceX has an option to acquire for $60 billion. The directive came from James Burnham, xAI’s general counsel and former chief lawyer at the Department of Government Efficiency, according to Bloomberg. Burnham sent guidelines to […]

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Spotify tests narrated magazine articles inside the audiobook tier

Spotify began testing a new content format on Tuesday: narrated long-form magazine articles, slotted in alongside audiobooks rather than podcasts. The launch announced from the company’s newsroom on Tuesday morning, includes more than 650 English-language pieces from a roster that runs through Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety, Billboard, Vibe, GQ, WIRED, Vanity Fair and Pitchfork. […]

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