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• Should Europe wean itself off US tech?

  Just three US firms provide 70% of Europe's cloud-computing, leading to fears of overreliance.

• VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power

  The German car-maker says its "optional power upgrade" is designed to give customers more choice.

• UK's Turing AI Institute responds to staff anger about defence focus

  Whistleblowers say the charity is at risk of collapse because it has been told by the government to focus on defence.

• Data centres to be expanded across UK as concerns mount

  The number of data centres is set to jump by a fifth in the coming years, figures seen by the BBC suggest.

• Angry, confused and worried about police – behind Instagram bans

  Hundreds of people have contacted the BBC to say they have wrongly been shut out of their accounts.

• Intel shares jump after report of possible US stake in chipmaker

  The reports emerged a day after a meeting between the Intel boss and Donald Trump.

• Firm apologises for saying it would not process LGBTQ+ payments

  Stripe said the information given by its support staff to some customers was "totally wrong."

• Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced

  Data suggests leading adult site Pornhub lost more than one million visitors in two weeks.

• Apple rejects Musk's App Store bias claims

  The X owner had accused Apple of making it impossible to fairly compete with ChatGPT.

• Bezos-backed Perplexity AI makes surprise bid for Google Chrome

  One technology investor called the $34.5bn offer a "stunt" that is much lower than Chrome's true value.

• Government expands police use of facial recognition vans

  The Home Office says the technology helps locate suspects but civil liberties groups warn of heightened surveillance.

• 'Cryptocrash king' Do Kwon pleads guilty to fraud

  The South Korean former tech executive co-founded Singapore-based cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs.

• AI can make us UK's biggest firm, Rolls-Royce says

  Tufan Erginbilgic says business deals to supply nuclear power for artificial intelligence could boost its fortunes

• It shocked the market but has China's DeepSeek changed AI?

  Some six months after DeepSeek shook Silicon Valley, is the Chinese AI chatbot still relevant?

• Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sales to US

  The chip giants will hand revenues to the US government in exchange for licences to export to China.