Google sues Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build phishing sites and send 2.5 million scam texts

IMF chief warns advanced AI models like Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system”

From AI deals to streaming fraud, the music industry is wrestling with four existential battles at once

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp hit by a major Meta outage

Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi wins Level 4 approval in Switzerland

Meta is giving free AI glasses to every blind veteran in America

Thena Capital closes a £45M fund to back UK medtech, a first for an all-female GP team

Humanoid robot maker EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO

Mistral is in funding talks at a €20bn valuation

SpaceX rings the bell on its Nasdaq debut, and Musk admits he gave it ‘less than a 10% chance’

Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent

OpenAI acquires Ona to run Codex agents inside the customer’s own cloud

Nvidia’s Vera CPU is its side door back into China

A SpaceX-Tesla merger was a fantasy. The IPO just made it look plausible.

Founders Fund put $600M into SpaceX. The IPO just turned it into $50bn.

Current’s $80M Series E values the neobank below its 2021 peak

The UK is about to ban under-16s from social media. Its own child-safety charities are worried.

SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, but your retirement fund is picking up the tab

Pleo layoffs hit engineers a day after it launched finance AI agents

Starlink is SpaceX’s cash machine, but the maths is getting harder

Google sues suspected Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build scam websites

UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 curbs target China. The backlash came from its own side.

Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.

Alibaba is offering $1.5 billion for China’s last big independent grocer. The bidding war with Meituan is on.

Infineon is opening a €5 billion chip factory in Dresden. It is the EU Chips Act’s first major success.

The world’s top-selling robot vacuum maker is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO. It also wants to build a hypercar.

SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Japanese retail investors got $2.2 billion of it.

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Equal AI raised $30M to screen phone calls for Indians who get 20 spam calls a week

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Anthropic is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.

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ShinyHunters breached 100+ companies through an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day

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AI needs judgment, not a job description: Michael Ronis on the future of recruitment

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Bluesky launches group chats and pivots to communities as growth stalls at 44.8 million users

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How companies train millions of workers when their products never stop shipping

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Google DeepMind’s TacticAI can predict football plays 8 seconds before they happen. Palmeiras is the first to use it.

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Reddit now lets users reply to any post with video comments

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BlackRock ordered $5 billion in SpaceX shares as IPO demand hit $250 billion, nearly 4x oversubscribed

Meta adds an AI assistant and desktop version to its CapCut rival Edits

Barcelona’s THEKER raises €73M to deploy AI-native factory robots that learn on the job

Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12 billion at $41 billion valuation to build AI that engineers physical products

Coinbase launches an AI agent that can trade crypto and pay for research on your behalf

Waymo launches a $29.99/month subscription for its most frequent robotaxi riders

Why the next AI safety problem is the conversation between models

Your robot can’t be smart, fast, and free. Evolution solved that already.

Coram raises $35M to turn security cameras into autonomous AI investigators

Canada wants to ban under-16s from social media, and rein in AI chatbots too

Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US

AI bubble fears are spreading, even as SpaceX readies the biggest IPO ever

Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf