British Business Bank commits £100m to Apposite's healthcare growth fund

The British Business Bank is staking £100m in Apposite's latest healthcare fund, a cornerstone commitment aimed at the UK's clinical-technology middle market. The bank is betting that domestic capital, not just global LPs, can keep the country's health-tech pipeline in-country.

Diamond coating nearly doubles a Chinese AI data centre's cooling efficiency

Engineers at a Chinese AI facility report that a thin diamond coating on heat-exchange surfaces is nearly doubling thermal throughput under accelerator loads, according to a domestic research write-up picked up by the South China Morning Post.

In Singapore, SMRT is putting AI to work on decades of sensor data for predictive train maintenance

Singapore's rail operator is consolidating thirty-plus years of track, rolling-stock and signalling telemetry into a modelling stack that flags components before they fail. Techgoondu reports the programme is moving from pilot to standing practice on parts of the network.

Data centre silicon and consumer devices push TSMC's revenue higher

Inditex warns: Zara's internal databases hit by a cyber attack

Inditex has issued an urgent notice that Zara's internal systems were targeted in a cyber attack affecting corporate databases, per the company's own advisory carried by ADSLZone. The retailer is still characterising scope.

DeepL ships real-time voice-to-voice translation

DeepL's voice-to-voice pipeline — translated speech in, translated speech out — is now generally available to customers, ComputerBase reports. The German firm is pitching it as a primary interface for cross-border meetings, not a demo.

Sygaldry Technologies raises $139M from Breakthrough Energy to build quantum AI servers

Sygaldry Technologies, led by ex-Rigetti founder Chad Rigetti, has closed a $139 million round led by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures. The company is aiming at a stack that marries quantum and classical AI hardware into a single server class.

Tesla is considering humanoid-robot production at its Shanghai Gigafactory

TechNode reports Tesla is weighing production of its humanoid robot at the Shanghai Gigafactory, a move that would put a second product family onto the same floor as the Model Y. The company is still characterising it as a consideration, not a commitment.

Sweden confirms it thwarted a 2025 pro-Russian cyber attack on a thermal power plant

Swedish authorities have publicly described a 2025 intrusion attempt against one of the country's thermal power plants, attributed to pro-Russian actors. The attack was detected and stopped before it touched generation systems, per the statement.

Vietnam opens consultation on a draft list of 12 strategic technologies

Vietnam's government has published a draft list of twelve strategic technologies for public consultation — the first formal step before the categories are used to direct state funding, fiscal incentives and workforce policy.