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Lambda has signed a cloud-infrastructure deal with Hudson River Trading to supply HRT with access to NVIDIA chips.

Fairplay and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, have asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate Roblox over 'unfair and deceptive' design and marketing practices.

After early manufacturing setbacks, MAGFAST founder Seymour Segnit rebuilt his supply chain, stayed radically transparent, and turned crowdfunding backers into repeat customers and investors.

Google has announced Pics, a Workspace-native AI image generator powered by Nano Banana 2, with precision-editing controls and Slides/Drive integration.

Google has launched Gemini Omni Flash, a new multimodal video-generation model from DeepMind that creates and edits video conversationally from image, audio, video, and text inputs, with SynthID watermarking on by default.

Meta began notifying thousands of employees of layoffs on Wednesday, starting with Singapore staff at 4 am local time. The cuts implement an April commitment to reduce headcount by ~8,000 roles.

Berlin's Dunia Innovations has unveiled plans for a 280M, 6,000-square-metre GigaLab to verify AI-designed materials at an industrial scale.

Alibaba's T-Head chip unit has unveiled the Zhenwu M890, its highest-spec AI accelerator yet, and said the chip is now in 'scaled mass production' as China accelerates its domestic NVIDIA-alternative push.

Meta has filed a fresh European Commission proposal offering rival AI chatbots free WhatsApp access in Europe up to a usage cap, then a per-message fee. The Commission is reviewing it under the Digital Markets Act.

OpenAI will open its first applied-AI lab outside the United States in Singapore, with a S$300m ($235m) commitment and a staffing ramp to about 200 people over the next few years.