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Bilibili has relaunched its international app without identity verification, plans an English-language website and is hiring community managers in six cities including London. The company says content on its international and Chinese sites will be the same. Bilibili is making a serious attempt at the world outside Chin
Some 87% of German companies were hit by data theft, espionage, or sabotage in the past twelve months, up from 81% a year earlier, according to the industry association Bitkom, which puts the resulting damage at €289.2bn. What is new in this year’s report is not the trend but the method, because Bitkom has combined […]
Foreign governments have tried to break into the messaging accounts of senior European Union officials. The bloc’s own cyber defence unit told national governments so in July. An internal presentation lists “account takeover targeting high-ranking officials” among the top threats facing the bloc this year. Sam Clark ob
Europe gave itself the right to bring class actions against big companies five years ago. Ireland hosts the European headquarters of most large technology firms, and campaigners there have managed exactly one. A law from 1634 explains why. Ellen O’Regan set out the problem for Politico from Dublin. Irish law bars anyon
Scalable Capital has opened its investment platform to ChatGPT and Claude, allowing its clients to analyse their portfolios and place trades through the two AI assistants rather than through the broker’s own app. The Munich company says it is the first European bank to do this, and it arrives as the industry works out
Australia’s Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships, in a case the competition regulator brought after receiving hundreds of complaints. The findings read as a catalogue of the design choices regulators now call dark patterns, applied to a subscription t
Southeast Asia has 306 data centres running and 173 more in the pipeline, according to figures published on Tuesday. The capacity being planned is nearly four times what is already operating. Southeast Asia data centre investment will rise from $15.72bn in 2025 to $35.08bn by 2031, according to Arizton. The Chicago res
Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3bn in pre-IPO financing at a valuation of $12bn or more, according to Bloomberg, as the Nvidia-backed cloud provider prepares for a listing expected next year. The raise follows a very different kind of financing earlier in its run, when Lambda borrowed $917mn against its GPUs to buy
XPENG said on Monday that its robotics business has raised more than $900M in what the company described as its first funding round, a substantial sum for a unit that has yet to sell a single robot commercially. The timing is deliberate, since the Chinese carmaker has committed to putting its IRON humanoid into mass […
Phonak has launched EON, a hearing aid platform built around a newly developed processor the company calls HYPERSONIC, which it says runs two artificial intelligence systems in parallel while drawing 37% less power than the generation before it. The Sonova-owned brand is pitching the release at the two problems that ha
Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, the latest version of its video generation model, days after raising roughly $10.2bn in a Hong Kong share placement whose proceeds it has earmarked entirely for AI. The sequencing is not subtle, and it is not meant to be, since the company has spent the past fortnight arguing to investors t
Funding for UK fintech companies has dropped to its lowest level in at least ten years, according to Bloomberg, which reported the figures on Sunday. The decline lands on a sector that Britain has spent the better part of fifteen years describing as its clearest technology success story, and it fits a pattern visible a
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