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TensorX has raised 8m to buy Nvidia Blackwell B300 GPUs and expand its GDPR-compliant AI inference platform, run from Dublin and Helsinki.

Ex-Datadog founders' Paris startup Tsuga has raised a $35m Series A led by Singular to run observability inside the customer's own cloud.

Tencent is in talks to sell minority stakes in Japanese game studios, including Tokyo-listed Marvelous, sometimes back to founders and at a loss, Bloomberg reports.

WiseTech founder Richard White denies any involvement in human trafficking after reports of a police probe into a visa-for-sex claim. Shares fell sharply.

Prosus has launched ToqanClaw, a no-code platform that builds business apps from a conversation, bringing OpenClaw-style tools to 5m+ merchants.

A US judge ruled Workday must face claims its AI hiring software allegedly screened out applicants in ways that broke California law and a federal disability ban.

A UN University report warns AI's carbon, water and land footprint is soaring, as Antonio Guterres presses AI firms to disclose costs and switch to clean power.

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son sees little merit in orbital data centres, the idea Elon Musk has championed, and says the AI race will be won by compute on Earth.

A ransomware group says it took 630GB from India's Tata Electronics, including purported Apple and Tesla component files. Tata confirms a breach; the files are unverified.

Britain's culture department is considering rules requiring Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok to make BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 news easier to find in feeds and searches.