Researchers say an AI agent just ran a ransomware attack from start to finish, with no human at the keyboard

ElevenLabs in talks for tender offer at $22bn valuation, doubling February mark

Crusoe reportedly in talks to raise $3 billion, tripling its valuation

A rocket motor blew up at Anduril’s Mississippi test site. The defence darling says it’s routine

Dutch military backs Intelic’s drone software with tens of millions of euros

China approves Unitree’s Shanghai listing registration, valuing IPO at $619M

India widens its usernames crackdown to Telegram and Signal

HCLTech wins $1.14bn deal with a European firm, its biggest since 2023

EU lawmaker who investigated spyware abuse was hacked with Pegasus

Blackstone’s QTS terminates its Digital Gateway data centre project in Virginia

Scientists built a cell from scratch that eats, divides and evolves. They just won’t call it alive

Anthropic and the Trump administration deny discussing a government stake

Zuckerberg says Meta’s AI agent progress is slower than expected

Quantum Systems raises $1.2bn and doubles its valuation to $8bn as defence money floods in

Alibaba to ban Claude Code over alleged backdoor risk, source says

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip

Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary faces a whistleblower lawsuit over rushed software testing

Kling AI raises two billion dollars as Kuaishou spins off its fastest-growing business

Lucid Motors replaces its CFO and overhauls its entire leadership team as new CEO reshapes the company

Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers

Ford’s Q2 US sales fell 10.3% as EV sales dropped 40.7% and an aluminium shortage hit F-Series trucks

Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in Q2, far exceeding the 406,000 Wall Street expected

Cloudflare gives AI crawlers a September deadline: pay publishers or get blocked

Why the next leap in AI video is teaching avatars to see and listen

Getty scraps its $3.7bn Shutterstock merger after a UK regulator won’t budge

A cheap Chinese AI model is closing in on Anthropic and OpenAI

Google loses final appeal over record €4.1 billion EU Android fine

Alva Industries raises €16M to scale its ultra-compact electric motors

UNICEF says children are adopting AI three times faster than adults

Nvidia offers AI startups compute now, payment later

Novo Nordisk’s owner backs an Italian fund to grow drug startups beyond Denmark

India tells WhatsApp to pause its usernames feature pending consultations

Microsoft joins Lightstorm-led consortium to build an India-Southeast Asia subsea cable

Raja Koduri’s Oxmiq raises $35m to rent out AI chip design instead of selling chips

US in talks with AI companies over voluntary standards for new models

SoftBank revives $10bn OpenAI-backed loan with a new sweetener for lenders

Super Micro says two Taiwan staff detained in probe involving its AI servers

BYD and Xiaomi shares surge after June delivery numbers show momentum holding

Apple’s next iPad Pro and MacBook Pro redesign are coming in 2027

China and US risks leave Europe’s chip sector facing a bleak future, report warns

SK Hynix will spend $51bn on a new NAND factory to catch the AI memory wave

Samsung details $90bn plan for South Korea’s Chungcheong region

Google says it has passed its $1bn Africa investment target

Ubisoft taps ex-Amazon Games chief to run its Tom Clancy studio

OpenAI has reportedly offered Washington a 5% stake worth $42.6bn

Alibaba will pay 600 million dollars to settle a US probe into illegal pharmaceutical sales on its platform

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Together AI raises 800 million dollars in Series C as open-source cloud demand surges

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SpaceX reportedly showed investors an AI device prototype, Musk says the report is false

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