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A Chinese scientist built a sodium battery that charges in 4 minutes. It could break China’s 75% lithium dependence.

Bliq.ai gets the green light for driverless cars in Finland

Neko Health raises $700M at nearly $7bn and heads to New York

Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland

Jensen Huang thanks Sega for the $5m that saved Nvidia from bankruptcy in 1995

Emergent hits a $1.5bn valuation as vibe coding mints another unicorn

Spotify launches a conversational AI that lets you shape what plays by talking to the app

Chai Discovery raises $400M at $3.8bn as AI drug discovery moves from promise to deployment

OnePlus exits the US and Europe. The memory crisis and Apple’s lawsuit made staying untenable.

South Korea will give all 52 million citizens free AI access, becoming the first G20 nation to do so

CXMT prices a record $8.5bn Shanghai IPO, valuing China’s memory champion at $85bn

Reflection signs a $1bn AI compute deal with Nebius, its second big capacity grab in a month

DeepSeek is preparing an IPO and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after its first raise

ASML plans to build EUV machines 30% faster as AI demand outstrips its production capacity

Apple is in talks with the startup shrinking a 27B AI model onto an iPhone

UK proposes a midnight social media curfew for older teens

Dutch Monumental raises $32m led by Khosla to put more bricklaying robots on site

Alibaba stock jumps 4% after Qwen is approved to run Apple Intelligence in China

Velocity raises $38M to move business money with stablecoins

Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training

Australia sets up a national Office of AI

Zipline is launching healthcare drone delivery with Cleveland Clinic. It hired Tesla and Waymo veterans to scale.

India pledges $20 billion to boost chips and smartphones as Modi pushes for an Indian mobile brand

Abu Dhabi already runs its government on AI

Lucid shares plunged 40% on a bankruptcy rumour from an EV blog. The denial came hours later.

Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.

Anthropic’s job ads read like a threat assessment

Australia tells AI data centres to put back more power than they take out

The White House’s Gold Eagle wants to patch cyber flaws at machine speed

CoreWeave looks to Wall Street to hedge memory chips, an asset with no market

Delaware wants to give AI agents their own legal identity

OpenAI’s first Jony Ive device is a screen-free speaker built to feel alive

China’s electric taxis are blunting the Hormuz oil shock, but only at the margins

Apple wins dismissal of iCloud child abuse imagery lawsuit on Section 230 grounds

ASML’s $400M chipmaking machine just shipped its first laptop processors

Stripe and Advent offer $60.50 a share for PayPal, valuing it above $53bn

Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research across eight institutions

Grok Build was uploading entire Git repositories to xAI’s cloud, including committed secrets

Paramount says it will take the Warner Bros merger to the Supreme Court if states block the deal

Nintendo is pulling a console from Europe over battery rules. Meta’s glasses just got exempted from them.

Meta sued by 26 employees who say its AI systems targeted workers on medical leave for layoffs

IBM shares plunge after preliminary Q2 revenue falls short of estimates despite surging AI bookings

Upwind links compromise of multiple AsyncAPI npm packages to coordinated attack on software release process

Kalshi builds a forward curve for computing power as exchanges race to turn GPUs into a tradable commodity

Dimon says AI already eliminated 30 to 40 percent of jobs in some JPMorgan divisions

India’s Udaan secures $160 million in new funding as it races to fix its balance sheet before an IPO

Demis Hassabis wants a Wall Street-style referee for AI, with the power to hit pause

Britain’s flagship AI data centre can’t get the power to switch on

Medical AI was meant to help. This week it replaced nurses and dodged its own checks

Microsoft promised to be carbon negative. Its emissions just jumped 25%