For years, advertisers have been trying to connect digital campaigns with what happens inside physical stores. Perion’s latest acquisition is aimed at closing that gap, extending its advertising infrastructure from channels such as connected TV and digital out-of-home into the point of purchase. Perion, an advertising technology company operating in North America and Israel, announced […]

Huawei intends to sign more AI partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, according to William Zhang, president of its healthcare business unit, who told Reuters the projects currently run mainly with domestic Chinese drugmakers. The company sells compound screening tools alongside its Ascend and Kunpeng chips, the same domestic stack it has been building out since US […]

The 25% tariff the United States imposed on advanced semiconductors in January comes with a carve-out that has kept it from touching the AI buildout, exempting covered products destined for American data centres. That exemption was always provisional, and the Commerce Department report that determines whether it survives was due on 1 July, in a […]

Surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London have removed a brain tumour in what University College London Hospitals says is the world’s first successful AI-assisted operation of its kind. The system analysed live camera footage during the procedure, helping the team identify nerves and blood vessels near the tumour, and joins […]

Apple has confirmed that its autumn event will take place on 9 September at 10am Pacific time at Apple Park, under the tagline “Surprise and shine” and an invitation showing a sun rising behind the company logo. The expectation is that it will finally show a foldable iPhone, a device IDC thinks could ship 10 million […]

South Korea’s media regulator has said that Meta’s new protections for young users should ideally apply worldwide rather than only in the markets that forced them, which is a modest-sounding statement with a substantial ask inside it. The measures in question come from Meta’s settlement with US state attorneys general, and the company has already […]

Brazil’s federal government has sued Discord for R$500M, about $97M, over what it describes as severe gaps in the platform’s age verification and user safety protections. It lands three days after Discord appealed against the data protection authority’s order suspending its livestreaming feature, arguing that only a court can suspend a service, and amid a wider […]

Salesforce and Anthropic have announced an expanded partnership called Claudeforce, which puts Claude at the centre of Salesforce’s agent products and simultaneously puts Salesforce inside Claude as a plugin. It formalises a relationship that already runs deep enough that Salesforce expects to spend around $300mn on Anthropic tokens this year, and it comes on top of a […]

Poland’s deputy prime minister and digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski has asked the European Commission to fine Meta €250M, roughly $291M, over scams and false advertising on Facebook and Instagram. “I also call on Meta to immediately introduce effective tools to eliminate scams, false advertising, and the promotion of illegal applications,” he said, in a […]

Barret Zoph is joining Google DeepMind as vice president of research, returning to the organisation he spent six years in before it was DeepMind at all. He announced the move on Wednesday, arriving three weeks after Demis Hassabis stepped aside as chief executive in a reshuffle that also saw some DeepMind teams folded back into […]