Google added Gemini voice search and a motorcycle mode to Waze. The feature people will actually use is 'less chatty' mode.

Tesla teased Cybercab employee rides at Giga Texas. The rule change that actually unblocks the wheel-less robotaxi came two days before.

The DOJ cleared Paramount's Warner Bros. Discovery takeover without conditions. Twelve states say it violates the Clayton Act.

Over 200 economists, 16 of them Nobel laureates, signed a statement called We Must Act Now, warning AI could upend the economy faster than we can measure.

Brussels and London hit Russian spies, criminals, hacktivists and a front company recruiting hackers from universities, in a first joint package.

Satya Nadella says firms using AI pay twice: in cash and in secret know-how. He calls it the Reverse Information Paradox, and Microsoft helped build it.

Helsing has raised $1.8bn at an $18bn valuation, making it Europe’s largest defence startup, even as American money fills its sovereign-AI round.

Tom Blomfield, the Monzo and GoCardless founder, is leaving Y Combinator to join Anthropic’s compute team, one of the AI talent war’s biggest hires.

Meta’s Hyperion data centre in Louisiana has ballooned from $10bn to over $50bn in under two years, bringing teacher bonuses and evictions alike.

Over-55s in AI-exposed jobs are exiting work more since ChatGPT, and landing in unemployment, not retirement. Programmers and accountants are hit hardest.

Cursor Sand is a general-purpose agent built to rival Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work. Musk’s SpaceX may decide whether it ever ships.

Xi Jinping will deliver the keynote at Shanghai’s World AI Conference on 17 July, his first appearance at the event, as China pushes its own AI governance body.