People are quietly recording every conversation they have with AI, and the person across the table has no idea

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New data shows EV batteries are lasting far longer than buyers think, yet US sales keep falling

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Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group

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China fines Trip.com $765 million for forcing hotels into exclusive deals and controlling their prices

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Waymo to end Uber exclusivity in Austin and Atlanta, launching its own app in January 2028

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OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together

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Modi breaks Instagram’s Reel record with 300 million views as student protests sweep India

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Samsung signs a $200 billion chip deal with Broadcom covering memory, foundry and advanced packaging through 2030

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Remote worker with anxiety wins discrimination case after employer refused to let her turn off her camera

Two Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading after buying Rivian stock before the joint venture they helped build was announced

Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped

Tesla’s self-driving software is selling faster than ever, and it still needs a human driver

10 Platforms for AI Visibility and Link Building in 2026

Dead internet theory becomes measurable fact as AI agents flood the web

Intel Q2 earnings double estimates as AI data centre revenue surges 59 percent

SAP’s cloud is still booming, and that was enough to calm the AI-doom fears

Amazon just shut its AGI Lab, and quit a race it never led

Stripe wants to own the toll booth between AI models, for ~$10bn

World Foundation raises $52 million in token sale as proof-of-human demand accelerates

The AI giants just broke with OpenAI and Anthropic on open weights

Meta leaves RE100 clean energy pact after a decade as its gas buildout for AI outpaces renewables

OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’

Meta launches a standalone Seller app for Facebook Marketplace with AI-powered listings

Claude’s new voice mode isn’t chasing natural. It’s chasing your to-do list.

Patreon cut 20% of its staff. Its CEO insists AI isn’t replacing them.

Meta wins dismissal of WhatsApp privacy suit as judge questions whistleblower detail

Microsoft is rewiring itself for the AI era, on offence and defence

Meta is banning the ‘pervert glasses’ creeps from Instagram

A Chinese model split Silicon Valley. Now the startups are fighting back.

A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.

A nervous Dassault is spending $2bn on AI, in the division dragging it down

Trump’s data centre power pledge draws scepticism from energy experts

EU charges TikTok with failing to protect children’s privacy under the DSA

SoftBank is reportedly weighing a deal for Swiss robotics startup Gravis

Wise shares tumble after US regulator rejects its trust bank charter bid

TechEx Europe 2026 returns to Amsterdam, bringing together Europe’s enterprise technology leaders

Vietnam wants under-16s to keep their accounts, just not post on them

AMD teams up with Eric Trump-backed Foundation to build humanoid robots

Genesis AI is in talks to raise about $500m for its robot brains

Oracle wins Pentagon software deal worth up to $7bn

Nvidia commits $1.5B to Amkor to expand US chip packaging

Ford is switching from Google to Apple Maps for its next-generation EVs

Musk says Optimus will be the hardest product Tesla has ever scaled

AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia

Four former DOGE staffers raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation for an AI military cyber startup

Jeff Bezos has been approached to buy a stake in Liverpool FC. Amazon already holds the Premier League TV rights.

Travis Kalanick raised $1.7B for his robotics comeback, and Uber chipped in

AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude

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