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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reddit now lets users reply to any post with video comments

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

US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process

What SpaceX’s record IPO really means for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it

Deezer’s new free tool scans your Spotify and Apple Music playlists for AI slop

Upriver raises $14M to fix the unglamorous layer where enterprise AI quietly breaks: the data

Google is funding 300,000 electricians and welders, because the AI boom is running out of them

The US-Philippines AI hub now has a price tag, $10bn, and a 99-year lease on the table

Mercedes-Benz turns to defence, partnering with startup Tytan to build anti-drone vehicles

ShopAgentic raises €1.9M to build commerce infrastructure for AI shopping agents

Mississippi residents file a 10,000-strong class action against Musk’s xAI and SpaceX over data-centre noise

OpenAI plugs Visa into ChatGPT so AI agents can shop and pay at any Visa merchant

South Korea hits Coupang with record $409 million fine over massive data breach

OpenAI and Anthropic keep warning about AI risks, then releasing bigger models and filing for IPOs

Italian fintech unicorn Satispay reportedly plans €120M raise to push into stock trading

China’s state-run Workers’ Daily calls for a ‘dam’ to protect labour rights as AI spreads

Meta has cut Manus off from its internal systems and told staff to sunset the AI platform