BlackRock is partnering with AWS to host its Aladdin investment platform in the cloud. The service, which once managed over $21 trillion in assets, will become generally available in the US in the second half of 2026. Amazon itself will use it to manage its corporate investment portfolio.
Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy Z TriFold, its first tri-folding smartphone. It opens to a 10-inch display and is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chip, but it’s only confirmed for a Korean launch on December 12, 2025.
The UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has clarified a major error in its communications to Parliament. After a £312 million laptop refresh, it told MPs it upgraded to Windows 10, but has now confirmed the entire fleet was moved to Windows 11 by March 2025.
Airbus started moving its 130,000 employees from Microsoft Office to Google Workspace over seven years ago. Today, more than a third of its 150,000-person workforce still relies on Microsoft tools due to technical and compliance hurdles.
Apple has made a major change to its AI leadership. The company hired Amar Subramanya, a former Google and Microsoft AI executive, as its new VP of AI. Longtime AI chief John Giannandrea will retire next year.
Omnicom is now the world’s largest ad holding company after closing its $9 billion acquisition of Interpublic Group. CEO John Wren says the new scale and its AI platform will create “unmatchable” commercial terms for clients, even as the deal brings over $750 million in cost savings and 4,000 job cu
CD Projekt Red is sticking to its ambitious plan to release three new Witcher games within six years, starting with the launch of The Witcher 4. This rapid schedule hinges on their switch to Unreal Engine, but with multiple other projects in development, the promise is a massive one.
Law enforcement in Germany and Switzerland, backed by Europol, have shut down the CryptoMixer service. The operation seized servers, a domain, and over €25 million in cryptocurrency tied to the platform.
Nvidia is making a massive strategic move into the chip design software space. The company announced a $2 billion stake in Synopsys as part of a new partnership to integrate Nvidia’s computing power into engineering solutions.
The market is buzzing with the “mini-Broadcom” narrative for Astera Labs, positioning it as the critical “wires” for AI data centers. But Forbes urges caution, noting the leadership team is cashing out and valuations are sky-high. It’s a classic story of a vital tech company facing immense investor
