HubSpot is eliminating about 660 roles, 7% of its workforce, in a restructuring its chief executive calls an AI strategy shift while insisting it is not driven by AI efficiencies. Its SEC filing concedes the timetable depends on local consultation law,…
San Francisco’s board of supervisors unanimously passed a 45-day moratorium on new data centres, extendable to 22 months, halting a Bayview expansion and a 49.5 MW Dogpatch project. Europe paused first and for a different reason, the grid, and now find…
Microsoft will add .msix and .msixbundle to Outlook’s blocked attachment list in early November, closing an email route for a packaging format its own threat researchers watched four criminal groups abuse in 2023. Renaming the extension still gets a pa…
Alibaba co-founder and chairman Joe Tsai says open-source AI is the only way for Europe to become independent in the technology. He spoke to founders and investors on Wednesday at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled “The Other Side of the Story…
Paramount has completed its purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery and renamed the combined company Skydance. The company announced the close on Tuesday, and its shares now trade on the New York Stock Exchange as SKYD. Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders r…
SpaceX and the commercial space industry want the FCC to abolish the third-party council that coordinates the radio spectrum used by rocket launches and aircraft flight testing, replacing it with an unspecified system of self-coordination. Boeing, Lock…
Finland’s Licensing and Supervision Agency (LVV) has ordered Google’s Finnish subsidiary to stop work at two planned data centre sites, in Muhos and Kajaani. The halt covers work that significantly changes the environment. The agency issued the order o…
Biohub, the US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health are putting $1.8bn into data to train AI models that predict how cells behave. Meta, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are joining with $300M between them, Biohub announced on …
The Dutch tax and customs administration has dropped its move to Microsoft 365 in the cloud. Its office software will instead run on servers it controls, together with European open source tools. State Secretary for Finance Eelco Eerenberg set out the …
Anduril will invest $3.7bn in a new shipyard near Baltimore to build parts for the US Navy’s Virginia-class submarines, the defence company said on Tuesday. The Navy has also awarded Anduril a contract worth up to $2.9bn, with payments tied to demonstr…