Technology

Ubisoft confirms targets after strong Assassin's Creed bookings

Feb 12 - French video game ⁠publisher Ubisoft confirmed its full-year financial targets on Thursday after ⁠third-quarter bookings exceeded company forecasts, driven by its flagship "Assassin's Creed" franchise.

Technology

Analysis-For stock market, AI turns from lifting all boats to sinking ships

NEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Investors are discovering that the ⁠artificial intelligence landscape is not just fertile ground for stocks -- it is also a minefield.

Technology

LSEG to build blockchain-friendly digital settlement platform

Feb 12 (Reuters) - LSEG said ⁠on Thursday it plans to build an on-chain settlement service ⁠for institutional investors called the LSEG Digital Securities Depository, ‌which will connect traditional and digital securities markets.

Technology

Amsterdam-based AI firm Nebius to build 240MW data centre near Lille, France

AMSTERDAM, ⁠Feb 12 (Reuters) - Nebius, the Amsterdam-based ⁠AI cloud services firm, is planning ‌a new 240-megawatt data centre in Béthune, France, near Lille, that will be one of Europe's ​largest when it is finished, ⁠the company said ⁠on Thursday.

Technology

Italian tax police search Amazon in new tax probe, sources say

MILAN, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Italian ⁠tax police carried out searches on Thursday at Amazon's headquarters in Milan in a new ⁠tax evasion investigation into the U.S. tech giant, two sources with direct knowledge of ‌the matter told Reuters.

Technology

Anthropic to donate $20 million to US political group backing AI regulation

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Anthropic ⁠will spend $20 million to back U.S. political candidates ⁠who support regulating the AI industry, according to ‌a company statement released on Thursday.  

Technology

Siemens boosts 2026 profit outlook on AI-driven data centre demand, shares jump

ZURICH, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Siemens ⁠raised its full-year profit outlook on Thursday after first-quarter profit exceeded expectations, boosted by ⁠surging demand for AI-driven data-centre infrastructure and sending shares up over 6% in early ‌trading.

AI

Google pushes AI shopping features in search and Gemini chatbot

Google is adding a way for consumers to buy things while seeking artificial intelligence-powered answers on search and in its Gemini chatbot – part of a plan to make money more directly from consumers' AI use.

Technology

Adyen's soft payment volume overshadows revenue growth, shares tumble 15%

Feb 12 (Reuters) - Dutch payments ⁠processor Adyen's revenue grew by more than a ⁠fifth in the second half of 2025, but weaker ‌than expected transaction volumes and a cautious guidance, seen as signs of slowing momentum, sent its shares falling 15% on Thursday.

Technology

Samsung ships latest HBM4 chips to catch-up in AI race

SEOUL, Feb 12 (Reuters) - ⁠Samsung Electronics said on Thursday it had started shipping its ⁠most advanced HBM4 chips to unnamed customers, as it tries to ‌narrow the gap with rivals in supplying critical parts for Nvidia's AI accelerators.

Technology

SoftBank posts fourth straight quarterly profit on OpenAI investment gain

(Corrects to state that SoftBank has recorded ⁠an investment gain of $19.8 billion on OpenAI rather than anticipates one in paragraph 7)

Mobile apps

WhatsApp says Russia 'attempted to fully block' app

WhatsApp said Feb 11 that Russia "attempted to fully block" the messaging app in the country to push users to a competing state-controlled service, potentially affecting 100 million people.

Technology

Samsung Electronics says it has shipped HBM4 chips to customers

SEOUL, ⁠Feb 12 (Reuters) - Samsung ⁠Electronics said ‌on Thursday that it has begun shipping ​its latest ⁠high-bandwidth memory ⁠chips, known as ⁠HBM4, to ‌customers as ⁠the South Korean chipmaker ​seeks ‌to catch up ⁠with ​rivals in the race ⁠to supply the ​semiconductor crucial for Nvidia's AI chipsets.

AI

ByteDance, Zhipu jolt China’s AI model race ahead of New Year

ByteDance Ltd and Zhipu have joined a flurry of Chinese companies releasing major AI model upgrades, raising the stakes in an intensifying battle for tech dominance and users ahead of the Lunar New Year.

iOS

Apple’s latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags

Apple Inc's long-planned upgrade to the Siri virtual assistant has run into snags during testing in recent weeks, potentially pushing back the release of several highly anticipated functions.

Driverless vehicle

Chinese scientists help create a ‘machine eye’ that may be faster than human vision

A new type of hardware inspired by the brain increases machine vision speed by four times, bringing revolutionary safety breakthroughs.

Social media

Rise in emotional economy: China ‘love-brained’ youth seek strangers’ scolding for guidance online

People obsessed with love pay for tongue-lashing from self-styled influencers; some consider growing trend a form of 'public humiliation'.

Technology

US FTC raises concerns over accusations Apple News favors articles from left-wing outlets

Feb 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal ⁠Trade Commission has raised concerns with Apple about accusations that Apple News promotes ⁠news articles from left-wing news outlets and suppresses content from conservative publications, ‌the FTC's chairman said on Wednesday.

Technology

More investors join legal challenge against South Korea over Coupang data leak handling

Feb 11 (Reuters) - Three more investors ⁠have joined Greenoaks and Altimeter in their legal challenge against the government ⁠of South Korea, alleging discriminatory treatment of e-commerce firm Coupang and other ‌U.S. companies.

Social media

Instagram CEO denies addiction claims in landmark US trial

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri on Feb 11 rejected the notion that users could be clinically addicted to social media, as he testified in a landmark California trial over whether his company knowingly hooked children on its platform for profit.