Why Apple built a third-party AI system for Siri and then refused to show it at WWDC
IQM adds a Vanguard board director to its bench as Europe’s first quantum Nasdaq listing approaches
Crypto exchanges promised users access to the SpaceX IPO. The tokenized shares never arrived.
The lawyer who won a $6 million verdict against Meta says AI let him do 30 hours of work in 10
Skoda’s Peaq is a seven-seat electric SUV built to undercut the Kia EV9 and Ioniq 9 on price
Grassroots opposition blocked $130 billion in US data center projects in the first three months of 2026
Fable 5 was beating GPT 5.5 on every major benchmark. Then the US government pulled it offline.
GM says its autonomous cars will eventually be capable of running as robotaxis too
Spotify removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes promoting illegal drugs, but only after a senator forced its hand
NHS England rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff after trial reports 43 minutes saved per day
Amazon’s CEO reportedly triggered the government crackdown that shut down Anthropic’s most powerful AI
KPMG pulled its AI report after UBS, the NHS, and others said its claims about them were made up
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UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups
Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US
Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf
Humanoid robot maker EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO
Mistral is in funding talks at a €20bn valuation
SpaceX rings the bell on its Nasdaq debut, and Musk admits he gave it ‘less than a 10% chance’
A SpaceX-Tesla merger was a fantasy. The IPO just made it look plausible.
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 world’s top-selling robot vacuum maker is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO. It also wants to build a hypercar.
Meta signs its first India data-centre deal, leasing a 168MW AI facility from Reliance
Amazon’s UK investment passes £1bn in Northamptonshire with 4,000 jobs, and a floor full of robots
Salesforce acquires m3ter to add consumption-based billing to Agentforce
