Brussels hints trade deal could collapse 

The EU’s competition chief Teresa Ribera has warned that Brussels must be ready to ditch its freshly minted trade deal with the US if Donald Trump presses ahead with threats to neuter Europe’s digital rules in favour of Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Meta.

Rivals left bleeding red ink in AI factory economics

Number crunchers at Morgan Stanley have been adding up some numbers and divided by their shoe size and reached the conclusion that Nvidia’s monster GB200 NVL72 racks are the only kit worth buying if you want to turn an AI factory into a cash cow.

Google locks users into slower charging and reduced battery capacity 

Search giant Google has confirmed that its new Pixel 10 series phones will force users to accept automatic battery throttling through its Battery Health Assistance feature, which can't be disabled.

G5 processor gets built on N3P as Pixel shifts foundry strategy

Google has ditched Samsung as the maker of its Tensor chips and signed up with TSMC.

Nguyen realises the Pixel 10 actually works

The Fruity Cargo Cult Apple’s grip on reality is slipping, and not even its favourite tame journos are buying the hype anymore. Nicole Nguyen [pictured] at the Wall Street Journal appears to have broken ranks after playing with Google’s Pixel 10.

Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 adds safety tricks but not much grunt

Qualcomm has refreshed its smartwatch silicon after three years, but anyone hoping for a serious performance leap will have to keep waiting.

New chips, flashy zoom and generative tricks in shiny recycled wrappers

The search giant has unwrapped its 10th generation Pixel phones, and it looks like someone finally got serious about AI on a handset.

Corporates chase speed, cost, and brainpower

OpenAI might be taking flak for GPT-5’s "less intuitive" feel, but the enterprise crowd is lapping it up. The chatbot’s newly launched brainchild is already getting jammed into products across the coding and productivity world.

AI upstart reckons it can do Google’s job better

Perplexity has lobbed a $34.5 billion offer to buy the Chrome browser, even though the AI firm is only worth about half that much.

Everyone wants to build the first machine that does something useful

The long-held fantasy of quantum computing is now looking more like a knuckle-busting engineering war.