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Noetra, a consortium owned by SoftBank, NEC, Sony and Honda, will run 27,500 Rubin GPUs for Japan's FRONTia physical AI project. No price disclosed.

microagi raised $55m led by Hummingbird. Its data arm pays 20,000 people in 15 countries to film themselves working. Robots have no internet to learn from.

A day after New York became the first state to freeze large data centres, Trump demanded it reverse course immediately. Hochul replied within hours.

At an internal FY27 kickoff, Microsoft executives told sales staff to compare Copilot favourably against Claude and OpenAI on cost, speed and security.

The London startup says plants run on less than 8% of the data they collect. Its Orbital model fuses time series, physics and language. KBR led the $20m round.

Nearly two-thirds of countries in the WHO European Region deploy AI diagnostics. One in 12 has a strategy to govern it. Kluge calls the gap the defining challenge.

xAI has sued a South Carolina man for allegedly using Grok to generate child sexual abuse material, the first such case, while facing suits arguing the opposite.

Uber has agreed a 41.50-per-share takeover of Delivery Hero valuing it at $14.8bn. In May it offered 33. Fourteen markets go to SSW Partners for $1.6bn ...

Goldman booked a record $3.4bn in investment banking fees, up 55%. Its CEO calls it an AI capex super cycle. JPMorgan's CFO is passing on data centre deals.

STOXX 600 profits are forecast to grow 15.3% in Q2, the most since 2022. Strip out energy and it is 6%, against 19.6% in the US.