2026-07-21
'I can assure you, Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution are not the only titles we're planning' — Xbox's chief strategy officer confirms the company wants to make more exclusives, but 'large live-service titles' will be multiplatform going forwar
Xbox has confirmed that the Microsoft-owned company is looking to expand its console-exclusive portfolio outside of Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution. [...]
2026-07-21
GM beats Q2 earnings and announces gas-powered Cadillacs as nearly $11 billion EV retreat nears completion
General Motors beat Wall Street’s second-quarter estimates by 37 cents a share on Tuesday, raised its full-year earnings guidance for the second time this year, and used the same earnings call to announce that Cadillac will launch new gas-powered versions of the CT5 sedan, XT5 crossover, and discontinued XT6 three-row SUV starting next spring. Revenue […]<br /> This story continues at Th [...]
2026-07-21
The biggest data-centre deal in history just closed, then got $5bn bigger
On Tuesday, a group of the world’s most powerful investors finished buying a company most people have never heard of. The price tag explains why it matters. The largest data-centre deal ever The AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners completed their purchase of all the equity in Aligned Data Centers. The deal […]<br /> This story continues at [...]
2026-07-21
London robotics startup Humanoid raises $152M Series A, with Bosch set to manufacture its wheeled robots at scale
London-based robotics startup Humanoid has raised $152 million in a Series A round led by Prime Movers Lab, the venture firm behind Figure AI’s $39 billion valuation, pushing Humanoid’s own valuation above $1 billion. Bosch, Schaeffler, Aglaé Ventures, the investment arm of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, and Taiwan’s Fubon Financial also participated. The round brings […]<br /> This [...]
2026-07-21
Intel Foundry lands its first named outside customer: Fortinet
The two companies announced a strategic collaboration to build the Fortinet Security Processor 6, the custom silicon inside its FortiGate firewalls. Intel will handle the chip design, advanced packaging, and manufacturing. The first name on the list That last part matters more than the chip itself. Intel told Tom’s Hardware it will build the SP6 […]<br /> This story continues at The Next [...]
2026-07-21
Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron
Look at what Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle officially owe, and the numbers seem large but manageable. Look off the books, and a second, bigger pile of debt appears. A Nikkei study put that hidden figure at $1.65 trillion, up roughly eightfold in four years. It is more than the $1.35 trillion the five […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-21
Eight NATO allies launch HALO, a plan to link military satellites into one networked mega-constellation
Eight NATO allies have launched an initiative to connect their military satellites into a single networked mega-constellation, marking the Alliance’s most ambitious move yet to treat space as shared operational infrastructure rather than a collection of national assets. The programme, called HALO (Hybrid Alliance Layered Operations in Space), was announced at the NATO Summit Defence […]<br [...]
