Spotify now lets listeners clip and share moments from any podcast
Spotify now lets listeners clip and share moments from any podcast

Spotify has launched a feature called Podcast Clips that lets listeners select, trim, and share specific moments from podcast episodes. A new scissors icon in the Now Playing view opens a clipping tool where users can mark a segment of audio, preview i…

Vučić flew to Beijing for a $1.1bn Chinese investment, while Belgrade burned
Vučić flew to Beijing for a $1.1bn Chinese investment, while Belgrade burned

China’s $1.1bn AI, robotics and EV package for Serbia lands four days after 34,000 protesters filled the capital demanding early elections. Brussels has yet to develop a coherent response to either. On Saturday, tens of thousands of Serbians filled the…

Meet the speakers: Who is taking the stage at the TNW, Oneflow & Flexas gathering in Amsterdam?
Meet the speakers: Who is taking the stage at the TNW, Oneflow & Flexas gathering in Amsterdam?

Four guests, one question: when everyone has AI, what will actually make a SaaS company win? The panel on 3 June in Amsterdam will try to answer it. There is a moment, somewhere between the third and the fourth AI feature release of the quarter, when e…

SpaceX wins a $2.29bn Space Force contract for the Golden Dome backbone
SpaceX wins a $2.29bn Space Force contract for the Golden Dome backbone

The Space Data Network Backbone, built on Starshield satellites, is designed to link missile-defence sensors and interceptors in near real time. The US Space Force has awarded SpaceX a $2.29bn fixed-price contract to build the Space Data Network Backbo…

Samsung commits $1.5bn to a Vietnam chip-testing plant, with $2.5bn more on the table
Samsung commits $1.5bn to a Vietnam chip-testing plant, with $2.5bn more on the table

Samsung Electronics will invest 39 trillion dong, or about $1.5bn, in a semiconductor testing plant in Vietnam, according to a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Construction has already begun in an industrial park 60 kilometres north of Hanoi, wit…

SK Hynix joins the trillion-dollar club, powered by Nvidia’s HBM4 orders
SK Hynix joins the trillion-dollar club, powered by Nvidia’s HBM4 orders

A 10%+ surge in Seoul trading on Wednesday pushed the Korean memory firm past $1 trillion, making it the third chipmaker after Nvidia and TSMC to cross the line. SK Hynix’s market capitalisation pushed through $1 trillion in Seoul trading on Wednesday …

NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang calls Taiwan the ‘epicentre’ of the AI revolution as spending hits $150bn a year
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang calls Taiwan the ‘epicentre’ of the AI revolution as spending hits $150bn a year

NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang told a Taipei audience at Computex 2026 on Wednesday that Taiwan is the “epicentre” of the AI revolution, and that the company’s annual spending on the island will reach roughly $150bn a year. The number, the highest…

Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions
Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions

The Tech Sovereignty Package arrives on Wednesday, but the EU is still arguing internally over what ‘digital sovereignty’ should actually require. The European Commission is preparing to publish its Tech Sovereignty Package on Wednesday afternoon, the …

The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a …

Dropbox founder Drew Houston steps down as CEO after 19 years as the company he built gets squeezed by Google and Apple
Dropbox founder Drew Houston steps down as CEO after 19 years as the company he built gets squeezed by Google and Apple

  Drew Houston, the co-founder who built Dropbox from a Y Combinator demo into a company with more than 700 million registered users, is stepping down as chief executive. Ashraf Alkarmi, Dropbox’s current head of product, has been named co-CEO effectiv…