Big tech, apps, the internet
The FCC has barred DJI from selling new drones and cameras in the US after the Pentagon labelled it a Chinese military company. Insta360, its smaller Shenzhen rival, is moving in — and the US already accounts for 30% to 40% of its revenue.
The service covers 82 million compatible devices in the US. Recipients can be paid out in local currency across more than 60 countries, with Borderless.xyz handling the conversions.
Thailand suspended 166 projects on September 4 to write nationwide rules on power, water and location. In Indonesia, West Java's governor halted a 640-megawatt campus after finding key permits, including an environmental assessment, had never been issued.
At its Dev Day, OpenAI said it is rebuilding ChatGPT as a place to find and run software — a direct challenge to the app-store model. Visual ads will appear alongside image results in the US later this month, and Amazon has agreed to let brands place ads in ChatGPT.
The 100-turbine installation sits 121 miles off the English coast, covering 229 square miles of Dogger Bank. At 1.4 gigawatts, it can supply the equivalent of 1.2 million British homes.
The Chinese tech giant is targeting more than 20 gigawatts of global capacity by 2032, a build-out Citigroup says could underpin $160 billion in cloud revenue. The push comes months after the Pentagon listed Alibaba as a Chinese military company.
The Pontes service connects DLT trading platforms to the ECB's existing TARGET payment system, letting banks settle digital assets in ECB-backed euros rather than stablecoins. Thirteen institutions including Deutsche Bank and Santander were live at launch, with round-the-clock operation planned by mid-2028.
TikTok and ByteDance agreed to pay $400 million to resolve US allegations over children’s privacy, though a judge has signalled he may keep in place the earlier order tied to $100 million of the deal.
Missile and drone strikes hit AWS facilities across the Gulf, overwhelming the redundancy measures built into its regional network. Customers who hadn't moved their data out of Bahrain before April face losses the company says it cannot reverse.
A failed external dependency crashed a legacy login server and blocked customer access across 15 countries for several hours. Salesforce said no data was lost and found no evidence of a cyberattack.
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