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UK start-up FLock.io pilots sovereign AI in Malaysia

FLock.io used federated learning with Sarawak AI Centre to train local models while preserving public-sector data privacy.

Ripple gets Aussie regs foothold as it agrees to acquire BC Payments

Ripple will buy BC Payments to obtain an Australian Financial Services License and expand its Ripple Payments platform across the Asia Pacific.

Flatpay picks Bonzer as global SEO partner

Flatpay hires Nordic SEO firm Bonzer to boost visibility and win artificial intelligence search across seven European markets.

Nordic Semiconductor expands 'ultra low power' AI chip lineup

The European chipmaker has unveiled a new product and tools to run ultra-low-power on-device artificial intelligence.

BitGo invests in Ubyx and joins as settlement agent

BitGo takes an equity stake and will deploy BitGo Bank & Trust as a settlement agent within Ubyx's regulated digital asset network.

xAI lands permit for Mississippi power plant

xAI secured state approval to run 41 gas turbines at its Colossus 2 data centre in Southaven, despite local opposition and legal threats.

Google is rolling out Gemini AI built into Chrome browsers in India, New Zealand and Canada

Chrome is bringing built-in artificial intelligence features, including Gemini and Nano Banana 2, to users in India, New Zealand and Canada.

Polymarket teams up with Palantir to police sports markets

Polymarket is building a surveillance platform with Palantir and TWG AI to detect suspicious trading in its sports prediction markets.

Amazon blocks Perplexity's Comet AI browser from accessing its ecommerce site

Amazon wins a preliminary injunction after court filings allege Perplexity's Comet scraped its shopping site without authorization.

Apple now makes about a quarter of iPhones in India

Apple assembled about 55 million iPhones in India last year, lifting the country’s share of global iPhone production to roughly 25%.

Oracle shares surge as AI infrastructure demand triggers earnings beat and upgrade

Oracle beat estimates, raised fiscal 2027 revenue guidance and reported 44% cloud revenue growth.

Fanatics Flag Football Classic adds more NFL stars and Youtubers to rosters

The Fanatics Flag Football Classic expands its inaugural roster with additional NFL players and global athletes set to play at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.

Microsoft has shown 'privacy preserving' widespread Copilot use for health and caregiving

Microsoft analysis of more than half a million Copilot conversations reveals widespread symptom interpretation, care navigation and proxy caregiving usage.

NVIDIA 'virtualizes' game development with new RTX PRO Server

NVIDIA introduces RTX PRO Server to centralize GPU resources and support artificial intelligence alongside graphics workflows.

Google's Gemini AI can now edit complex spreadsheets almost as well as a human expert

The AI assistant scored 70% on a standard industry test for real-world spreadsheet tasks, outperforming competing models

Nvidia signs multiyear partnership with Mira Murati's AI company Thinking Machines Lab

The deal involves deploying at least one gigawatt of Nvidia's next-generation computing hardware for frontier AI model training

Google DeepMind releases AI model that understands text, images, video and audio together

Gemini Embedding 2 is the company's first model to treat different types of media as part of a single, searchable system

Nvidia's Jetson chip is bringing AI out of the cloud and into the machines around us

The platform lets robots, vehicles and industrial equipment run sophisticated AI models locally, without an internet connection

Hospitals are moving AI out of the lab and into everyday clinical work, Microsoft says

New research shows a growing gap between health systems that have embedded AI in workflows and those still running small-scale tests

OpenAI releases training dataset to help AI models follow instructions in the right order

The IH-Challenge dataset is designed to make AI systems better at deciding whose instructions to obey when they conflict