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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

Upwind, the next-gen wiz, now secures every corner of the AI stack

Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy as Carney takes cues from Pope Leo on safety

Publishing professionals are becoming prime targets for impersonation

Meta launches an AI assistant that tells Facebook creators why their content works, not just that it did

A single GitHub issue could have hijacked Anthropic’s own Claude Code action and poisoned every project that uses it

Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital

Meta will let employees stop being tracked, for 30 minutes at a time

A mile-long nuclear-powered ship for 80,000 people has been “about to break ground” for three decades

Ramp hits $44 billion valuation in $750 million raise as it bets that AI token spending is the next corporate expense to tame

UK forces Google to let publishers opt out of AI search results without losing their ranking