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PhysicsX hits $2.4bn valuation as Temasek leads $300m round for the AI startup that cuts simulation times from days to seconds

The lawsuits that could give AI its Big Tobacco moment are already here

A UK startup just raised $18.5 million to fly satellites where nobody else can

JPMorgan poaches Nomura’s international AI strategy chief as Dimon doubles down on AI hiring

The AI models finding 10,000 vulnerabilities are the same ones China is trying to copy. That is the problem.

Moonshot AI wants a $30bn valuation six months after being worth $4bn. That tells you everything about China’s AI funding race.

South Korea’s AI chip boom is so strong it’s crushing the bond market

Mexico unveils the Olinia Uno, an $8,600 government-backed electric vehicle designed for city streets

Nvidia locks in SK Hynix for the AI memory race as the chip industry’s “toughest bottleneck” gets its own multi-year deal

Spotify is licensing live concert video and reserving tickets for superfans

China wants slimmer EVs after batteries and features made them too heavy for parking spaces

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UK plans to buy AI chips from British firms to stop them leaving for the US

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Kyle Vogt’s Bot Company is being sued for turning an Airbnb into a robot lab

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Trump signs memo putting ‘most advanced AI’ into military hands and banning vendors from pulling the plug

OpenAI adds Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT to block data theft from prompt injection attacks

Robot dogs, hunter drones, and AI cameras: the tech securing the 2026 World Cup

Trump’s top AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is stepping down from the White House

Audi’s 1,001 PS Nuvolari is its fastest car ever, and it’s not electric

Chinese EVs are circling the US market. Detroit’s best option may be to partner with them.

Bank of England governor warns AI may need to be rationed because of energy limits

Swiss startup GR3N raises €15.5M to build the world’s first microwave-powered PET recycling plant

Self-replicating Miasma worm hits 73 Microsoft GitHub repositories in supply chain attack

An AI agent found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for $1,000. Chrome just patched a record 429 bugs.

EU trade chief wants a new tool to break Europe’s dependence on Chinese chips and rare earths

Reid Hoffman leaves Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with AI drug startup Manus

Former IBM cybersecurity exec accuses company of covering up years of Chinese hacking

Trump wants the American public to own a piece of OpenAI. Nobody knows how that would work.

Every VC-backed e-bike company went bust. Bootstrapped Lectric just had its biggest month ever.

GM’s $900 million bet on a battery chemistry no one has commercialised could slash EV prices by 2028

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute as Musk turns a data centre built for Grok into a cash machine

The 10 best press release distribution services for 2026

Russia readies a smaller Starlink, and a 2027 deadline it keeps moving

Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.

Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.

Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act

FIFA World Cup 2026 is a cybercriminal’s dream, and the scams are already live

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site

Mira Murati resurfaces after 18 months with a warning about AI governance and a product no one expected

A Chinese startup just dethroned Nvidia on the benchmark Nvidia helped build

Japan risks becoming an ‘AI colony’, its digital minister warns

Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its own code and the world needs a plan to hit the brakes

While tech week talks AI, Scytale is talking about what’s actually killing deals

Data-centre developer Switch in talks to raise at $50bn-plus valuation

Broadcom steps back from M&A as AI revenue surges

Trump officials fear a loophole let Chinese firms buy Nvidia Blackwells

US officials have discussed taking government stakes in AI companies

The 10 best ecommerce mobile app builders for mid-market and enterprise brands

South Korea’s labour minister wants tech firms to share AI windfalls

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang flags robotics as Korea’s next growth engine

Anthropic urges a coordinated, verifiable pause for frontier AI