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Gigaton raises $26M to rip out the control software running heavy industry

UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out

GitLab to cut 14% of staff and exit 22 countries in ‘agentic era’ restructuring

Musk allies back a private-sector DOGE as ex-staffers launch Special

Kodesage raises $6.6M to drag enterprise legacy software into the AI era, without it leaving the building

UK committee urges break clause on Palantir’s £330M NHS data contract

ChatGPT hits 1 billion monthly users faster than any app before it

Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release

Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for government tech purchases as Tusk warns AI dependency has reached dangerous proportions

RogueDB introduces a simplified database platform designed to reduce infrastructure work for startups and IT teams

The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted

Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half

Perplexity built an “air-traffic controller” that decides in real time whether your AI query runs on your PC or in the cloud

Microsoft just announced a new operating system for devices that don’t run apps, only AI agents

Hackers brute-forced Dashlane’s two-factor authentication and downloaded encrypted password vaults

OpenAI is turning Codex from a coding tool into an enterprise work platform, and non-developers are adopting it 3x faster than engineers

A German startup raised $240 million to commercialise the only fusion experiment that has ever produced net energy

A North Dakota startup raised $10 million from ranchers and neighbours to build the operating system for beef cattle

Blue Origin says fuel tanks and key pad components survived the New Glenn explosion, pledges to fly again this year

Palo Alto Networks shareholders have rejected executive pay seven times, and the CEO still earns nearly $100 million

The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission

SpaceX’s first employee just raised $500 million for the company that moves satellites once rockets put them in the wrong orbit

Amazon’s Ring is sued over its Familiar Faces facial-recognition feature

Taiwan shows off robot patrol dogs that could guard its South China Sea islands

The White House is at war with itself over who gets to regulate AI

Meta takes its 13+ teen content settings global across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger

Google wants to release 64 million lab-bred mosquitoes in Florida and California to fight dengue and Zika

Marvell jumps after Jensen Huang calls it the next trillion-dollar company

Microsoft heads into Build with AI everywhere and a paying-customer problem

WeRide and Uber take their robotaxi partnership to Madrid

SoftBank is reportedly in early talks to back an $800m Agile Robots round

Uber picks Munich for its next robotaxi push, with Autobrains and Nvidia

Jensen Huang says pay workers ‘as much as possible’ days after Nvidia commits 50% of free cash to shareholders

Australia’s biggest bank says corporate AI is racking up bigger bills and producing ‘work slop’

SEALSQ takes majority of WeCan to build a post-quantum AI compliance co-pilot for private banks

ByteDance and Oracle are using Arm’s in-house AGI CPU, completing the hyperscaler-x86 exit

Vinted Ventures backs Tilt’s $26M live-commerce round as Whatnot pressure mounts

Mach Industries quadruples to $1.8bn as the Pentagon’s drone-dominance push lifts every defence-tech valuation

Amazon moves Prime Day back to June and keeps it a four-day event

STMicroelectronics doubles its data-centre revenue forecast to $1bn

Alphabet to raise $80bn in equity to fund its AI spending

GoPro warned it may not survive. The AI memory crunch is killing companies that make things people hold.

Apple is building a bill-splitting feature that photographs receipts and assigns items to friends

Hackers hijacked Instagram accounts by asking Meta’s own AI chatbot to reset the password

IBM is up 30% in a month as Barclays says its software business is the antidote to the SaaSpocalypse

A WordPress plugin sold to 15,000 sites has a flaw that lets anyone create an admin account, and attackers are already using it

Former Meta CTO raises $250 million for climate tech as the rest of venture capital chases AI

A GTA V cheat service that promised “enhanced privacy” just got hacked, exposing 64,000 accounts

Tencent is letting PayPal users pay through WeChat’s merchant network, solving China’s tourist payment problem

The space stock rally is cracking as investors prepare to swap proxies for SpaceX itself