Hon Hai, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant known as Foxconn, has reported a bigger-than-expected 40% jump in quarterly sales on demand for AI servers. The Nvidia supplier said in a statement on Sunday that AI rack shipments should maintain the…
AI could make phones smarter, but it may also make the smartphone market less forgiving for smaller, stranger brands.
Arthur Mensch, cofounder and chief executive of French AI lab Mistral, has urged enterprise leaders to abandon closed AI models. In a LinkedIn post, he argued that closed providers are now forcing data retention and gaining “immense leverage” over thei…
Parents should stop publicly posting images of their children online because of the growth of AI-generated abuse imagery, the UK’s National Crime Agency has warned. The agency issued the advice alongside the Internet Watch Foundation, the charity respo…
The NHS will use AI inside its app to direct patients in England to the right services, the government has announced. The tool will assess symptoms and work out whether someone needs a GP appointment, a pharmacy visit, or a trip to A&E. The update …
Alibaba banned Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection code was found, prompting staff to switch to Qoder as its feud with Anthropic deepens.
Hong Kong has become the main artery for high-tech goods flowing in and out of China, and its chip trade has hit record levels. The city accounted for more than half of China’s $239bn in semiconductor imports in the first five months of 2026, according…
China’s cinemas are being told to stop relying on tickets alone. New guidelines from the National Film Administration and the State Administration for Market Regulation encourage theatres to add AI concierge agents, karaoke booths and coffee shops to t…
OpenAI apparently failed to visit a key site earmarked for its Stargate UK data centre project before the initiative was announced, the Guardian reported on Friday. The revelation deepens questions about whether the UK government’s flagship AI infrastr…
Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of esc…