Ford CEO tells employees Chinese EVs could reach the US within five years
SpaceX’s record IPO is pulling a wave of space startups into orbit
A $2 sticker defeats the one feature holding Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ together
AI search is fragmenting, ageing and filling with ads
The EU clears the $55bn Saudi-led buyout of EA under its subsidy rules
T-Mobile executives told Deutsche Telekom they no longer support the $300 billion merger
Spider-Man earns $355 million in its opening weekend, the second-biggest US debut ever
Australia expands its Big Tech news charge to cover LinkedIn and raises the rate
Zepto shelves IPO plans, turns to private investors as valuation drops by half
Nearly half of adults would hide AI use in their work, even though most say others should not
Florida wants to spend $198 million in federal EV charger money on air taxi landing pads
Snapchat will no longer recommend AI-generated videos on Spotlight
Judge denies xAI’s bid to block Minnesota’s ban on nudify apps
OpenAI says its next model, Astra, has solved ten open problems in mathematics
DeepSeek’s founder says his workers have no KPIs and no overtime, while Silicon Valley copies China’s 996 grind
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Fusion’s best-funded bet raised another $1bn, and hired the banker who took Moderna public
Musk said money doesn’t matter. The market just took $1.2tn of it anyway.
Everyone else is shrinking satellites. K2 raised $500m to build giant ones, and put AI in orbit.
The unsexy layer AI agents actually need: DataBahn raises $40m to sell it
The chips that wire GPUs together are the new prize. Xsight raised $300m to sell an open one.
Space-Eyes, backed by Eric Trump, plans a $638m SPAC debut
Ex-Anduril founders raise $30mn to build Europe’s synthetic battlefield for defence AI
Oracle put its cloud rival’s AI inside its business apps, and the stock jumped 8%
Intel is handing its Atom chip tech to a startup run by the CEO’s longtime partner
