Technology

STMicroelectronics CEO sees first-quarter revenue at usual levels

(Reuters) -STMicroelectronics' Chief Executive Jean-Marc Chery said he expects 2026 to start at usual levels, noting that a weaker recovery than expected this year will not lead to the accumulation of inventory at its customers.

Technology

Are you listening to bots? Survey shows AI music is virtually undetectable

(Reuters) -A staggering 97% of listeners cannot distinguish between artificial intelligence-generated and human-composed songs, a Deezer–Ipsos survey showed on Wednesday, underscoring growing concerns that AI could upend how music is created, consumed and monetized.

Technology

Italy's A2A lifts investment plan to $27 billion on data centre demand

MILAN (Reuters) -Italian multi-utility A2A said on Wednesday it had raised its total projected investments for 2024-2035 to 23 billion euros ($27 billion), with 1.6 billion euros earmarked for creating and managing data centres.

Technology

Nvidia supplier Foxconn bullish on AI demand, teases OpenAI announcement

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, offered a bullish outlook on AI-related demand on Wednesday saying it would be a big driver of 2026 growth, and teased an announcement next week with OpenAI.

Technology

'We're already living in science fiction': The neurotech revolution

From translating thoughts into words to allowing paralysed people to walk, the field of neurotechnology has been quietly surging ahead, raising hopes of medical breakthroughs – and profound ethical concerns.

Technology

PayPal re-launches in the UK after nearly two years

-PayPal said on Wednesday it is re-launching in the United Kingdom for customers to shop online and in stores, nearly two years after it restructured its operations there following Brexit.

AI

Watchdog group Public Citizen demands OpenAI withdraw AI video app Sora over deepfake dangers

The tech industry is moving fast and breaking things again – and this time it is humanity's shared reality and control of our likeness before and after death – thanks to artificial intelligence image-generation platforms like OpenAI's Sora 2.

Technology

TotalEnergies agrees renewable power deal with Google for Ohio data centres

(Reuters) -Oil major TotalEnergies has agreed a 15-year power purchase deal to supply Alphabet's Google with 1.5 terawatt hours of renewable electricity from its Montpelier solar farm in Ohio, the French company said on Wednesday.

Technology

Vodacom inks Africa internet deal with Musk's Starlink

(Reuters) -South Africa's largest mobile operator Vodacom Group has signed an agreement with Elon Musk's Starlink to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband internet for businesses across Africa, the telecom firm said on Wednesday.

Technology

SoftBank shares slide as Nvidia stake sale highlights AI funding needs

TOKYO (Reuters) -SoftBank's shares slid as much as 10% on Wednesday after the $5.8 billion sale of its stake in Nvidia highlighted the growing funding demands it faces to bankroll its "all-in" bet on ChatGPT creator OpenAI and other investments.

Technology

Infineon raises 2026 sales target for AI power supply segment on booming demand

BERLIN (Reuters) -German chipmaker Infineon significantly raised its 2026 sales target for the AI power supply segment on Wednesday, citing strong demand, and forecast total revenue increasing moderately from the year before despite currency headwinds.

Technology

RWE beats profit forecasts with one-off gain from UK data centre sale

FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) -RWE, Germany's largest power producer, reported higher than expected profit for the first nine months of the year, boosted by a 225 million euro ($262 million) book gain on the sale of a data centre project to a large cloud service provider.

Smartphones

Google rolls out Apple-like message summaries for Pixel phones

Alphabet Inc's Google is adding new artificial intelligence features to its Pixel devices, including iPhone-like message summaries and notification prioritisation.

AI

Why new model of China’s Moonshot AI stirs ‘DeepSeek moment’ debate

Kimi K2 Thinking outperforms OpenAI's GPT-5 and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, sparking comparisons to DeepSeek's breakthrough.

Technology

Turkcell, Google sign cooperation agreement on cloud technologies

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish telecoms operator Turkcell signed an agreement with Google on Wednesday for strategic cooperation on cloud technologies, the company said in a notice.

Internet

'Splinternets' threat to be avoided, says web address controller

ICANN is best known for coordinating global allocation of Internet addresses – whether the easily-remembered versions people type into web browsers, or the strings of numbers used by computers known as IP addresses.

Technology

Analysis-Big tech stops complaining, starts complying with Australia's teen social media ban

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Online platforms will ping Australian teenagers through over a million accounts in coming days offering a choice: download data, freeze profiles or lose the lot when a world-first ban on kids using social media starts on December 10.

Technology

As the crypto art market cools, Seattle’s NFT museum in limbo

Reviews were mixed. Some visitors found the art derivative and the space sterile. "If I wanted to look at a bunch of TVs I'd go to Best Buy," quipped one Yelp reviewer in April 2022.

AI

'Artificial evil': Seven new lawsuits blast ChatGPT over suicides, delusions

"This is not intelligence," a father said. "This is just, flat-out artificial evil. Period."

Technology

Yen stablecoin issuer predicts growing presence in Japan's bond market

TOKYO (Reuters) -Stablecoin issuers could become major buyers of Japanese government bonds in several years and influence the central bank's control over monetary policy, the head of Japan's first domestic issuer of yen-pegged stablecoins told Reuters.