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Google’s AI Overviews killed 58 per cent of publisher clicks. Now it is adding a ‘Further Exploration’ section to bring some back.

Snap lost a 400 million dollar AI deal, 20 million dollars a month to the Iran war, and 24 per cent of its stock price. The AR glasses had better work.

Nyobolt’s batteries charge in seconds and last 20,000 cycles. The customer that made it a unicorn is a warehouse robot.

Ukraine says robots seized enemy territory for the first time. The company behind them is now worth a billion dollars.

Uber missed its revenue target. The stock jumped 10 per cent. Wall Street is pricing a different company.

The UAE’s AI champion just leased a converted Minneapolis office. The irony writes itself.

Google is not building a consultancy. It is writing a licensing agreement. That may be the smarter play.

Google offers EU concessions on news-search ranking to head off a fresh DMA fine

Supreme Court refuses to pause the order holding Apple in contempt in the Epic case

Anthropic raises Claude Code and Opus API rate limits, citing SpaceX Colossus 1 deal

Ethos lands $22.75m Series A to fix what AI broke about hiring

NVIDIA takes warrants for $500m in Corning stock as fibre-optics partnership goes structural

SpaceX files for a $55bn Texas semiconductor fab, with combined chipmaking investment reaching $119bn

Chinese chamber of commerce puts a $432bn price tag on the EU’s cybersecurity overhaul

Hut 8 signs a 15-year, $9.8bn lease for the first phase of its Texas AI data centre

LiveEO raises €28m to take its civil-infrastructure satellite stack into European defence

Ametek to buy Indicor’s instrumentation businesses for $5bn, the largest CD&R partial exit of 2026

Thailand approves $29bn in projects, with TikTok’s ₿842bn data-centre expansion alone worth $25bn

Peter Sarlin’s Qutwo hits $380m valuation in an angel round

Google’s top differential-privacy scientist tells the EU its data-sharing plan can be reversed in two hours

Davis raises $5.5m pre-seed to compress real-estate development from months to days

China’s Big Fund is now leading the DeepSeek round, and the price has more than doubled in two weeks

Samsung Electronics crosses $1tn, joining TSMC, as the AI memory cycle pulls Korea into a record

Apple settles the consumer Siri lawsuit for $250m. The shareholder case is still live.

Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.

China’s humanoid robot boom faces reality check as 150 companies chase a market where only 23% of buyers are satisfied

AI-native spending surged 94 per cent. Traditional SaaS grew at eight. The enterprise software industry is watching the clock.

The designer whose Tropicana rebrand crashed sales 20 per cent is now branding the US government. He has two months.

Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.

A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.

Duolingo beat every estimate Wall Street had. Then it told investors it was going to slow down on purpose. The stock dropped 14 per cent.

He carried a kill list of AI CEOs and a jug of kerosene. His lawyer called it a property crime. The charges carry life in prison.

The recycling industry loses 40 per cent of its workers every year. A humanoid robot trained by VR headsets is the replacement plan.

In April 2025, Intel was trading at $18. Fourteen months later it hit an all-time high. The turnaround was not built by Intel alone.

Half of young Europeans turn to AI to talk about intimate matters

Five major publishers are suing Meta over Llama. They have evidence that the previous plaintiffs did not.

Anthropic ships ten financial-services agents and pulls Moody’s inside Claude. The bank-software business is being rewritten.

QuantWare lands €152m to build the world’s largest open-architecture quantum processor fab in Delft

Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce. The reason it gave was not the crypto downturn. It was AI.

In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising

Five AI labs now let the US government test their models before release. The arrangement is voluntary, has no legal basis, and is the closest thing America has to AI oversight.

A crypto miner became Europe’s most valuable AI startup in two years. Now it is spending $812 million to prove the model scales.

The IronSource founders sold an ad tech company for $4.4 billion. Their next bet is that AI agents will replace the ad buyers their old company served.

Fervo Energy launches $1.33bn IPO, the largest climate-tech listing of 2026

ServiceNow projects $30bn by 2030, with a third of ACV from AI

Tesla’s FSD rollout in Europe runs into the regulator scepticism Musk has been projecting through

Intel hires Qualcomm veteran Alex Katouzian to lead a new Client Computing and Physical AI group

Meta is raising $13bn for one Texas data centre, a new ceiling for single-site AI financings

eleQtron closes €57m Series A, one of Europe’s largest quantum-computing rounds

Firecrawl is becoming AI’s default web layer.