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France breaks EDF’s grip on hydropower with law to auction 6 GW a year

Anthropic and Google DeepMind called for a US-led AI coalition at the G7, and Canada said yes

Allbirds sells its shoes, renames itself Smartbird, and says it is now an AI infrastructure company

Meloni says banning kids from social media is not a solution on its own

Amazon admits its AI models lag behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but says it can catch up

Britain lobbied Trump for an exemption from the Anthropic AI ban. The answer was no.

Mastodon adds email newsletters so people who don’t want an account can still follow creators on the open social web

Gary Marcus warns OpenAI’s IPO could drag Nvidia, Oracle, and CoreWeave down with it

A 21-year-old Stanford grad just raised $11.6M to build a wearable hormone monitor that doesn’t need blood

SpaceX’s surging stock just turned its valuation into an acquisition weapon

Half of Americans now use AI chatbots, but 40% think AI will make society worse and two-thirds don’t trust the government to regulate it

A million Dutch adults get news solely from social media. Only 12% trust what they see.

Arcade raised $60M to fix the real wall blocking enterprise AI agents: what they’re allowed to do

The bottleneck in geothermal moved from the drill to the turbine. This SpaceX alum raised $22M to fix it

Why CMOs need a new operating system for accountability

China’s new five-year plan makes tracking AI’s hit to jobs a national priority

Henrique Schmaiske and the human work behind Meteor 3.0

Poland bought a stake in ElevenLabs to grow its next AI champion

a16z is betting $38M that you want an AI ‘teammate’, not another agent

SAP just funded a startup built to help its own customers escape SAP

Google’s first speaker in six years is really a $10-a-month Gemini subscription

The US is paying an AI startup $500M to break China’s grip on chip materials

Estonia wants to give every AI agent its own ID number

Grok helped strike 2,000 targets at Iran. Now its pollution is ‘national security’.

Neuralink finally has a real rival: Paradromics just put a brain chip in its first patient

A startup that builds offensive cyber weapons just became a $1bn unicorn

Jeff Bezos is backing a two-year-old Cambridge AI lab at a $2.6bn valuation

Odyssey took Nvidia’s money. Now it’s raised $310M betting on Amazon and AMD

The tokenmaxxing era is over. Now companies are ‘tokenminimizing’

Microsoft might put China’s DeepSeek inside Copilot to tame its AI bills

Amazon could face billions in fines as the FTC eyes its ad business

Helion just got the world’s first licences to run a fusion power plant

Uber’s robotaxi service is heading to Houston to take another swing at Waymo

Mistral spent two years warning the US could switch off its rivals. A fat-cat meme just made the point for it.

Microsoft’s talks to lease Oracle cloud capacity have collapsed, report says

The FCC reopens the door to Chinese toy drones, but only the tiniest ones

Interpol reports a sharp rise in cybercrime and scams across Asia

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek and 100-plus Chinese firms

G7 leaders weigh a ‘trusted partners’ route to America’s top AI models

OpenAI burned $3.7bn in the first quarter, The Information reports

Microsoft sued by shareholders over Azure slowdown and AI spending

Telegram challenges India’s order temporarily blocking the app

Intel pushes 18A-P into risk production to prove its manufacturing pitch

Everlab raises AU$65m to turn primary care from treatment to prevention

Hacking group claims it breached Novo Nordisk and demanded $25m

Europe frets over American AI as the tech world descends on France

A Czech AI startup says it can detect drones by sound for €150 per sensor, and it wants to wire up power grids first

UC Davis brain implant lets ALS patient speak with 99% accuracy and work full time, no researchers needed

Qualcomm launches Snapdragon Reality Elite and a white-label toolkit for AI glasses, betting the next platform is not a phone

Google rolls out Android 17 with Gemini Intelligence, foldable gaming mode, and tighter privacy controls