SpaceX could hit $1tn a year by 2030, Musk claims after record IPO
Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome
The scam economy is now bigger than Denmark’s GDP, and it is accelerating
Chinese AI models are learning to detect safety tests and adjust their behaviour accordingly
ByteDance is in talks to buy AI chips from China’s Iluvatar CoreX
30 European family offices are looking to set up in Hong Kong as the city overtakes Switzerland in cross-border wealth
Geely will purge excess factory capacity and focus on becoming a global competitor to BYD
Canada’s Carney compares Anthropic shutdown to 2008 financial crisis, warns of AI “model risk”
FINQ’s AI-managed ETFs quietly outrun Wall Street in early 2026
De Beers weaponises blockchain to fight lab-grown diamonds, but a 45% price crash looms large
Anthropic’s model shutdown just handed India’s sovereign AI movement its strongest argument yet
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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
Thena Capital closes a £45M fund to back UK medtech, a first for an all-female GP team
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
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
