LG Electronics stock jumped 24% in a day after unveiling Google-based car tech that cuts automaker costs

The people who trained Tesla’s self-driving AI won’t ride in it

DuckDuckGo installs jumped 18% after Google killed the blue links. On Apple devices, the spike hit 70%.

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20 Snap alumni launched an angel fund for the next generation of social media. They think “social” and “media” have split.

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A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.

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SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France. It’s Son’s biggest European bet.

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Meta is building an AI pendant. It also plans a business subscription called Wearables for Work.

Social media companies paid a school district more than its annual budget to avoid trial

Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.

A startup with Eric Trump as adviser is testing humanoid robots in Ukraine. It wants them on US front lines within 18 months.

Your power bank is probably overheating. But don’t worry, TORRAS fixed that.

Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking

Microsoft threatened a security researcher with criminal prosecution. The cybersecurity community is furious.

HeartFocus Link adds AI cardiac imaging to any hospital ultrasound machine with a tablet and an HDMI cable

Nvidia paid Groq $20 billion and took its top engineers. Now Groq is raising $650 million for what’s left.

Parloa turns its $350 million war chest into a partnership web spanning SAP, Microsoft, and OpenAI

Developers won’t work without AI anymore. The research says it might be making them worse.

SpaceX just won a second Golden Dome contract. This one is $4.16 billion.

Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.

Ferrari’s CEO says the Luce deserves “respect.” Its former chairman says it deserves a different logo.

AI is killing the summer internship. The entry-level pipeline that built careers is breaking.

ChargePoint partners with Powers Parts to fix the charging and support gap hitting electric transit fleets

CoStar is paying $800 million for Zonda to close the last gap in its real estate data empire

Dutch Uptmz acquired by Aizy to build one AI ad platform across Google, Microsoft and Meta

Samsung and LG Uplus want to turn cell towers into radar for 6G

Intel and 3DGS back a $3.3bn glass-substrate plant in India’s Odisha

Australia’s workplace tribunal says AI-assisted claims have helped drive a 70% workload increase in three years

An Indian court says Google can be liable for selling rivals a brand’s name

A Danish pension fund has blacklisted SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance

Autodesk buys MaintainX for $3.6bn to push from design into operations

Picogrid raises $45M to become the neutral integration layer for modern defence

OpenAI gives Japan’s megabanks its newest model for cyber defence

Fonoa raises $110M and buys PwC’s tax software to build a real-time compliance platform

Bank of Italy says it is talking to the world’s big AI firms

Reflections from GLOBSEC Forum 2026: Europe’s two paths forward

Dell rallies on Nvidia-powered AI server demand as it lifts its forecast

Norway’s $2.3tn fund backs a human-rights review at Palantir

Ex-Sequoia China firm HSG said to lead bidding for Leica Camera stake

Apollo and Blackstone shop a $36bn debt deal to buy Anthropic its chips

How to stop holding AI agents back

SpaceX has cut its IPO valuation target to $1.8 trillion as marketing begins next week

EU-Nough tech rules? Founders, policymakers, and operators meet in Amsterdam to discuss Europeʼs scaling reality

Nvidia has spent $6.5 billion in three months to replace copper with light inside AI data centres

Asana buys no-code agent builder Stack AI as it tries to become the operating system for human-agent teams

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad, destroying its only pad and threatening Amazon’s satellite deadline

BYD has built China’s first 4nm driving chip, and it’s putting LiDAR on a $10,000 car

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 is its most honest AI model yet, and Mythos is coming in weeks