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Data centres are the backbone of artificial intelligence and power everything from AI chatbot queries, streamed video, and cloud-stored files. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT They are large facilities tha

China has blocked Meta’s acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, in an unexpected move to reverse a deal that apparently aroused Beijing's concerns about the transfer of advanced tec

Google Cloud introduced an AI agent platform and new TPUs at Next 2026.Google Cloud said 75% of customers use its AI, with new agent tools.Google Cloud announced new AI products and infrastructure at

China ordered Meta to unwind US$2 billion+ Manus AI acquisition.The case adds risk to cross-border AI deals involving China-founded companies.Chinese regulators have ordered Meta to unwind its acquisi

Meta uses tracking software to collect employee data for AI training.Is restructuring its workforce around AI.Meta Platforms has begun deploying internal tracking software on computers used by US-base

DeepSeek launches V4 for Huawei AI chips.Targets long-context agent tasks.DeepSeek launched a preview version of its V4 artificial intelligence model on Friday, with the Chinese startup adapting the s

Cisco Universal Quantum Switch connects different quantum systems.The switch routes quantum signals over telecom fibre without measuring them.Cisco has shown a working research prototype of a switchin

Tesla plans to use Intel 14A chips for Terafab.Terafab targets large-scale AI chip production.Tesla plans to use Intel’s next-generation 14A manufacturing process to produce chips for its proposed Ter

Author: Ruiguo Lai, regional sales director Asia, Kong.Agentic AI is experiencing rapid advancements in the APAC region. But with evolution also comes great risk. Without unified visibility and contro

As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov will launc

LegalOn has launched Vault in the US and Europe, expanding the AI company’s wealth of features around contract management and analysis to the point where we can perhaps say it’s now CLM-ish. Although,

Ivo, a contract intelligence platform, did one of those classic AI vs human tests, but this time included Claude for Word as a competitor. It beat the Anthropic LLM, and got close to beating the human

And so the Magic Circle continues to pick their legal AI platforms. Slaughter and May, after a long period of consideration, has gone all-in with Harvey. Linklaters went with Legora, A&O Shearman also

NVIDIA’s venture capital arm NVentures and Atlassian have invested in Legora. The $50m Series D extension that they joined brings the total round to $600m. The total overall money raised since launch

The Scaling Europe Top 50 is a data-led ranking for startups based in Europe. Four legal AI companies made the list this year: Legora, Wordsmith, Curvestone, and LawHive (which is broadly a NewMod). N