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Microsoft will report Azure revenue in dollars each quarter for the first time, having grown it 42% to $29.42B in the June quarter under a new two-segment structure. The European Commission reached a preliminary position in June that Azure should be designated a gatekeeper, with a final decision expected by the end of the year. [] This story continues at The Next Web

We have built an internet space where attention can be more valuable than truth. That decision is beginning to cost us something far more important: trust. What concerns me is how quickly attention has become its own form of currency. Social media did not invent anger, dishonesty, division or human frustration. Those things existed long [] This story continues at The Next Web

Anthropic has committed $35bn to a cloud provider most people have never heard of, for capacity in a Texas data centre being built by a former bitcoin miner. The Wall Street Journal reported the Lambda agreement on Monday, andReuters confirmed itwith a person familiar with the matter. Neither company has announced it, and no term [] This story continues at The Next Web

LG Energy Solution has signed a binding 10-year take-or-pay agreement for 8,000 tonnes a year of battery-grade lithium carbonate from Smackover Lithium in Arkansas, a joint venture 45% owned by Norways state-controlled Equinor, starting in 2029. LG signed a comparable offtake with Vulcan Energy in Germany in January 2022 that was due to begin delivering [] This story continues at The Next Web

Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and shipping. The Bordeaux company is owned by the AI platform Hugging Face. Its new machine has one eye and 15 motors, stands 25cm tall, and weighs under 800g. Preorders opened on Thursday. Pollen is targeting first deliveries [] This story continues at The Next Web

Reform UK wants to abolish the UK GDPR. It would replace the regime with a lighter privacy law modelled on New Zealands. Nigel Farage and the partys economy chief Robert Jenrick announced the pledge on Tuesday evening, inside a package aimed at small businesses. Mizy Clifton reported the plan for Politico. Britain wrote an amended [] This story continues at The Next Web

If your people team spent this year reading legislation rather than hiring, that is not a scheduling failure. Three pieces of European employment law took effect in 2026. A fourth arrives in December. They share a design principle most companies have not yet absorbed. The thread running through all of it: the burden of proof [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google has agreed to pay 260m to settle a class action brought on behalf of UK app developers, ending a case that was due to go to trial next month. The deal appeared on Thursday and is worth about $353m, Reuters reported. Lawyers had previously valued the claim at just over 1bn. It sought compensation [] This story continues at The Next Web

Google will start policing how much memory Android apps use, and it says the reason is the global shortage of RAM. From February 2027, an app that exceeds the new limits risks two penalties. Android can slow it down or shut it. The Play Store can bury it. The company published the requirements this week [] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta spent the first half of this year planning to replace much of the work its employees do with AI agents, then abandoned the most aggressive part of the plan when the technology did not deliver. Meta code-named the scheme Project OT, short for Organization Transformation. It explored cutting the size of many teams by [] This story continues at The Next Web

Eighteen months after their merger fell apart over who would control whom, Honda and Nissan have agreed to share the software inside their cars. The twosigned a joint development agreementon Monday covering electronic control units, an in-vehicle operating system, middleware and vehicle control software, with the first cars arriving from fiscal 2029. The agreement is [] This story continues at The Next Web

Europe is buying another AI supercomputer, and this one is headed to Kajaani in northern Finland. LUMI-AI is a 387.8 million system, roughly $449 million, that will be built by Bull, the French supercomputer maker that the French state bought outright five months ago. The order is the sixth AI Factory procurement contract signed by [] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI has begun letting some of its largest customers pay only when its AI actually completes the job. Kevin McLaughlin and Amir Efratireported the change to The Information, giving the example of a customer support interaction handled end-to-end. The arrangement is limited to select major accounts rather than offered generally, and OpenAI has not announced [] This story continues at The Next Web

A patient in England was told they had demyelination, the nerve damage that underlies conditions including multiple sclerosis. The test result had actually read null demyelination, and an AI scribe had dropped the word that reversed the meaning. That case appears in a warning from Healthwatch England, the statutory patient watchdog,reported by the Guardian today. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta has become one of Anthropics largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the company in public. At one point this year Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10bn a year on Anthropics models, The New York Times reported, citing two people who declined to be [] This story continues at The Next Web

Premier League clubs are playing this season without gambling brands on the front of matchday shirts, forcing eight of the 20 to find new partners at once. Fulhams went to ClickHouse, an American data infrastructure company valued at $15bn. The most valuable advertising space in world sport has changed hands, and some of it went [] This story continues at The Next Web