Microsoft commits A$25 billion to Australia by 2029
Microsoft commits A$25 billion to Australia by 2029

The investment is Microsoft’s largest-ever in Australia and builds on an A$5 billion commitment from October 2023. It includes expanding Azure AI supercomputing capacity by more than 140%, extending the Microsoft-ASD Cyber-Shield to additional governme…

Decade Energy raises €22M to build power infrastructure for electric truck depots across Europe
Decade Energy raises €22M to build power infrastructure for electric truck depots across Europe

The round is split between €16M from Eiffel Investment Group for project deployment and €6M led by SET Ventures for product and expansion, alongside existing investors Ananda Impact Ventures and Contrarian Ventures. The company targets 100MW+ of BESS p…

French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A
French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A

Founded in 2022 and formerly called Constellation Technologies & Operations, Univity is targeting a constellation of at least 1,600 satellites in very low Earth orbit, using telecom operators’ own 5G mmWave spectrum rather than competing with them….

SpaceX’s IPO filing says its orbital data centres may never work. Three months ago, Musk called them a no-brainer.
SpaceX’s IPO filing says its orbital data centres may never work. Three months ago, Musk called them a no-brainer.

Summary: SpaceX’s confidential S-1 pre-IPO filing warns that its orbital AI data centre plans “involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and may not achieve commercial viability,” contradicting Elon Musk’s January claim at Dav…

VAST Data’s $30 billion valuation is a bet that the data layer is the real bottleneck in AI
VAST Data’s $30 billion valuation is a bet that the data layer is the real bottleneck in AI

Summary: VAST Data raised $1 billion in a Series F at a $30 billion valuation, more than tripling from $9.1 billion, with Drive Capital and Access Industries co-leading and Nvidia, Fidelity, and NEA participating. More than $500 million is secondary ca…

Google wants Chrome to be your AI colleague, and it is betting 3.8 billion users agree
Google wants Chrome to be your AI colleague, and it is betting 3.8 billion users agree

Summary: Google announced at Cloud Next 2026 that Chrome is becoming an agentic workplace platform with Auto Browse (autonomous multi-step task completion), Chrome Skills (saveable AI workflows), a persistent Gemini side panel integrated with Workspace…

BMW’s i7 gets Rimac batteries, rare-earth-free motors, and drops Level 3 driving
BMW’s i7 gets Rimac batteries, rare-earth-free motors, and drops Level 3 driving

Summary:BMW revealed the facelifted 2027 i7 simultaneously at Grand Central Terminal and Auto China with Gen6 cylindrical cells from Rimac, rare-earth-free motors with SiC inverters, and 250 kW charging. The i7 60 xDrive targets 350-plus miles EPA and …

Mozilla patched 271 Firefox bugs found by Anthropic’s Mythos, and says the zero-day era has an expiration date
Mozilla patched 271 Firefox bugs found by Anthropic’s Mythos, and says the zero-day era has an expiration date

Summary: Mozilla released Firefox 150 with fixes for 271 security vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier AI model distributed under the restricted Project Glasswing programme. The collaboration began wit…

Pichai opens Cloud Next 2026 with $240B backlog, 750M Gemini users, and a plan to turn Search into an agent manager
Pichai opens Cloud Next 2026 with $240B backlog, 750M Gemini users, and a plan to turn Search into an agent manager

Summary: Sundar Pichai opened Cloud Next 2026 with Google Cloud at $70 billion in annual revenue, 48% growth, a $240 billion backlog that doubled in a year, and $175-185 billion in planned capital expenditure. The Gemini app has 750 million monthly use…

Google puts $750 million behind the consultants it needs to close the cloud gap
Google puts $750 million behind the consultants it needs to close the cloud gap

Summary: Google announced a $750 million fund at Cloud Next 2026 to finance partners’ agentic AI development, the largest single partner investment from any hyperscaler. Accenture has built 450+ agents, Deloitte committed its “largest investment yet,” …