Big Tech stories
Overseas enterprises can now tap Tencent Cloud's new AI tools for office work, design and model access as it steps up its push beyond China.
Households could face higher electricity bills as Louisiana plans a rush of data centre infrastructure, with costs spread to other customers.
A new survey suggests Europe's startups still depend on US cloud and AI providers, as capital gaps and acquisition hopes persist.
Households and small firms may end up paying for new power lines and plants, as a report flags opaque financing and tax breaks for data centres.
Threats from AI skills are escalating as the cybersecurity group expands research to counter a fast-growing software supply chain and attack surface.
Creators can now edit songs section by section and build custom workflows as Google widens its AI production tools to mobile devices worldwide.
Search is becoming more task-focused as Google rolls out AI tools that can track topics, book services and use personal data.
Search users will get background AI agents and custom layouts as Google broadens Gemini across its apps, YouTube and Workspace.
Families on Spotify's free, ad-supported tier can now give children under 13 supervised music-only accounts, starting in six markets.
Investor concern is mounting as WARC says Meta's ad business will fund most of its USD $125 billion to USD $145 billion AI spending.
The expansion will give European leaders and policymakers early access as W readies its public beta and new tracking dashboard for 17 June.
More Claude Code users will get longer sessions as Anthropic taps SpaceX data-centre capacity to ease compute bottlenecks.
Concerns over misinformation and manipulation are creating an opening for eYou, which is now available worldwide on iOS and Android.
Merchants could win back lost sales as tokenised checkout trims friction, reduces card-not-present fraud and keeps payment data in bank rails.
Parents are bearing most of the burden, as 78% of under-16s in Australia are still accessing social media covered by the ban.
New procurement rules could keep critical emergency and health systems in local hands, as Catalyst warns reliance on offshore vendors raises costs and risks.
Revenue rose 11.6% as higher transaction processing activity lifted Google Payment New Zealand's 2025 profit to NZD $312,841.
The 25MW project will add new power to the National Electricity Market as big tech seeks cleaner electricity for data centres.
The five-year contract should lift IREN's annualised revenue by about USD $1.94 billion once the Childress build-out is fully commissioned.
The probe could force new UK rules on software bundling and cloud licensing, potentially easing rivals' access to Microsoft's AI-heavy ecosystem.
