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SoftBank Group's mobile payment subsidiary PayPay inked a deal to acquire a 70% stake in T&D Financial Life Insurance Company for $840 million, part of an aim to broaden its range of financial services. The post SoftBank’s PayPay set for life insurance buy appeared first on Mobile World Live.
T-Mobile US officially opened a global capability centre in Hyderabad, India, with plans to hire around 1,000 staff by 2027, its first such facility outside of its home market. The post T-Mobile US expands globally with India tech hub appeared first on Mobile World Live.
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A gulf is emerging between how the American public and lawmakers are viewing Chinese robots, analysts say, following a high-profile performance by Chinese robotics champion Unitree’s humanoid robots on US television show America’s Got Talent, which received a standing ovation from the studio audience. While ratings figures have yet to be announced, the appearance of Unitree’s G1 robots on a prime time American television show in its season premiere could contribute to mainstream acceptance of...
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The Soviet “sea monster” is back – and this time it’s for sale. A Chinese company has completed the maiden flight of a passenger craft that skims just above the water’s surface using ground-effect technology, reviving a concept once associated with the Soviet Union’s giant Cold War-era experimental vehicles. Chinese mobility company Navee on Thursday showcased its WaveFly 5X on Lake Taihu in Suzhou, eastern Jiangsu province, as it raced to commercialise what it said was the world’s first...
China’s decision to greenlight over 100 foreign-invested entities to pilot value-added telecommunications services (VAS) in the country could be a major boon for some multinationals, though its impact on the domestic market is likely to be limited, according to industry analysts. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on Wednesday that it had approved licences for 166 foreign companies since February last year, covering VAS sectors including internet data centres,...
Orange Business secured a deal to supply French public hospital group GHT Rouen Coeur de Seine with a generative AI (genAI) platform, equipping 15,000 health professionals across its network with secure sovereign AI tools. The post Orange Business touts genAI healthcare use case appeared first on Mobile World Live.
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Telefonica chairman and CEO Marc Murtra insisted European sovereignty will only be possible with simplified regulation and a commitment to building technology within the continent, while stressing strategic autonomy does not mean isolation. The post Telefonica boss lays out path to Europe sovereignty appeared first on Mobile World Live.
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Tencent Holdings is opening WeChat to smartphone artificial-intelligence agents, as the Chinese tech giant fights to keep the app’s 1.4 billion users locked into its ecosystem in the AI era. The new feature would allow a phone’s built-in voice assistant to send messages or start voice and video calls inside WeChat, according to a report on Thursday by Chinese financial news outlet Yicai. WeChat had been working with the country’s biggest phone makers – including Huawei Technologies, Honor,...
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Apple unveiled plans to open a facility for developers in Berlin, Germany, a site intended to help European companies in creating and improving apps for the iPhone-maker’s devices. The post Apple poised to open first European developer centre appeared first on Mobile World Live.
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Financial Times: Public First: 26% of Americans support increased data center construction, the lowest share among 15 large countries, such as Brazil, Japan, the UK, and Canada — Americans are far more likely to oppose the construction of AI data centres than citizens of other big economies …
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) chairman C.C. Wei said the world’s largest contract chipmaker was “not afraid” of competition from mainland China, dismissing concerns that advances by Huawei Technologies and Chinese foundries could threaten its position in the global semiconductor industry. Responding to a shareholder’s question at TSMC’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Thursday, Wei said competition had been a constant throughout the company’s four-decade history and that it would...
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation — The company raised $400 million in a funding round led by Radical Ventures — Generalist AI, a robotics startup …
Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: London- and NY-based Airspeed, which aims to use AI agents to replace sales software like traditional CRM dashboards, raised a $20M Series A led by DN Capital — Airspeed, the London and New York-based agentic AI startup formerly known as Glyphic, has raised a $20 million Series A to build what it calls the …
Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's competitive position, MAI models, OpenAI, the software business, GitHub Copilot, Project Solara, data centers, and more — An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about figuring out Microsoft's role in AI, the relationship with OpenAI, Capex …
Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Sam Altman says he has no plans to put money into the 2026 US midterms; OpenAI has tried to distance itself from the Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future PAC — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman says he has no plans to make any financial contributions toward this year's US elections …
Meta Platforms unveiled an AI agent designed to help businesses carry out day-to-day tasks, as the social media giant looks to be a bigger competitor in the enterprise arena. The post Meta takes aim at enterprise with new agent appeared first on Mobile World Live.
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Revolut co-founder and CTO Vlad Yatsenko plans to step down in July, to be replaced by Head of Technology Donato Lucia; Yatsenko was Revolut's first employee — Revolut Ltd.'s chief technology officer, Vlad Yatsenko, and Chief Executive Officer Nik Storonsky's early partner …
Steven Levy / Wired: Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos — With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.
Julia Fanzeres / Bloomberg: Challenger: US tech companies announced cuts to 38,242 jobs in May, the most since August 2024, taking 2026's total so far to 123,653 cuts, up 65%+ YoY — US technology companies in May announced the most job cuts in nearly two years as they ramp up spending on artificial intelligence.
Robert Hart / The Verge: Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities that let workers assign it tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 — The company insists its robot investments are designed to support, not replace, warehouse workers.
Bloomberg: Corporate spending management platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by Iconiq, Singapore's GIC, and the OTPP, taking its total funding to $3B — Ramp, a corporate spending management platform, has raised $750 million in a new funding round at a $44 billion valuation …
Sarah White / Financial Times: France secured €110B+ of proposed AI and data center investments this week, amounting to ~10 GW of new computing capacity, equivalent to ~10 nuclear reactors — Investors warn approvals and local opposition could slow France's massive data centre build-out
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek took the top spot on a major US business spending index in June, as more companies swap out expensive American options like OpenAI and Anthropic in favour of more affordable alternatives. According to a “trending software vendors” list from New York-based corporate spending platform Ramp – which tracks when businesses buy from a software vendor for the first time – DeepSeek’s rise placed it ahead of event-management platform PheedLoop and...
Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: Foxconn says it will work with Intel to jointly develop and deploy next-gen AI infrastructure, including server racks with Intel Xeon processors and AI chips — Foxconn (2317.TW) said on Thursday it will work with U.S. chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) to jointly develop and deploy next-generation AI infrastructure …
Debby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company won't be able to fulfill the demand led by US customers even as more capacity comes online in the US over the next few years — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s global chip supply will fall short of AI-fueled demand for years to come …
Ted Chiang / The Atlantic: A look at AI consciousness debates; LLM conversations are cleverly disguised examples of sentence continuation, but that doesn't deny how impressive LLMs can be — Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism.
Daniel Nishball / SemiAnalysis: A deep dive into the case for data centers in space, as SpaceX prepares to go public: Elon Musk's claims, the wider debate, power supply issues, costs, and more — Space DC Total Cost of Ownership Explained. Unpacking constraints from Terrestrial DCs and Chip Production.
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As artificial intelligence steps out of the digital realm and into the real world, the race to build the embodied “brains” powering next-generation robots has become the newest battleground in tech competition between China and the United States. Two days after US chip giant Nvidia launched its Cosmos 3 model – designed to help physical AI “think before it acts” – a Chinese start-up stole the spotlight. On Wednesday, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province-based Spirit AI said its foundation model for...
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