Europe’s defence-AI champion Helsing is using Rakuten to break into Japan’s arms market
The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war
Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises
Voyah recreated Mercedes’ upside-down tunnel ad, then launched the car for $33,800
EV prices rose for the first time in 2026, and the discounts are why
AI music has reached the charts, and the artists using it have stopped hiding it
SafePal breach leaks the addresses but not the crypto, which may be the bigger problem
Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI
Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, the AI model router, for over $7bn
Anthropic’s near-$2tn IPO rests on a revenue forecast for 2028
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text
Mastercard took down payments across Australia with a scheduled update
Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says
Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs
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