Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.
 Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.

When Rivian went public in November 2021, Amazon owned 20 per cent of the company. It had backed the electric vehicle startup with a 700 million dollar cheque in 2019, ordered 100,000 electric delivery vans, and watched its investment surge to more tha…

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Duolingo beat every estimate Wall Street had. Then it told investors it was going to slow down on purpose. The stock dropped 14 per cent.
 Duolingo beat every estimate Wall Street had. Then it told investors it was going to slow down on purpose. The stock dropped 14 per cent.

Duolingo beat every Wall Street estimate for the first quarter of 2026. Revenue rose 27 per cent year on year to 292 million dollars. Earnings per share came in at 89 cents against expectations of 76 cents. Daily active users grew 21 per cent to 56.5 m…

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He carried a kill list of AI CEOs and a jug of kerosene. His lawyer called it a property crime. The charges carry life in prison.
 He carried a kill list of AI CEOs and a jug of kerosene. His lawyer called it a property crime. The charges carry life in prison.

Daniel Moreno-Gama, the 20-year-old accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and then walking three miles to OpenAI’s headquarters to threaten to burn the building down, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to …

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The recycling industry loses 40 per cent of its workers every year. A humanoid robot trained by VR headsets is the replacement plan.
 The recycling industry loses 40 per cent of its workers every year. A humanoid robot trained by VR headsets is the replacement plan.

The recycling industry has a labour problem that no amount of recruitment can solve. Staff turnover at waste sorting facilities runs at 40 per cent annually. The fatality rate is eight times the national average across all industries. Work-related inju…

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In April 2025, Intel was trading at $18. Fourteen months later it hit an all-time high. The turnaround was not built by Intel alone.
 In April 2025, Intel was trading at $18. Fourteen months later it hit an all-time high. The turnaround was not built by Intel alone.

In April 2025, Intel’s stock was trading at 18 dollars. The company had fired its CEO three months earlier, lost the AI chip race to Nvidia so completely that analysts had stopped including it in competitive comparisons, and was being discussed in the …

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Five major publishers are suing Meta over Llama. They have evidence that the previous plaintiffs did not.
 Five major publishers are suing Meta over Llama. They have evidence that the previous plaintiffs did not.

Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill, joined by author Scott Turow, filed a proposed class action in Manhattan on Tuesday alleging Meta pirated millions of their works to train Llama. After Judge Chhabria’s June 2025 ruling, plaintif…

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Anthropic ships ten financial-services agents and pulls Moody’s inside Claude. The bank-software business is being rewritten.
 Anthropic ships ten financial-services agents and pulls Moody’s inside Claude. The bank-software business is being rewritten.

Tuesday’s New York event added Claude Opus 4.7, a library of ~10 pre-built finance agents, an FIS-built AML investigator going live at BMO and Amalgamated Bank, and a Moody’s native app covering 600 million companies. The day after the $1.5bn Wall Stre…

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QuantWare lands €152m to build the world’s largest open-architecture quantum processor fab in Delft
 QuantWare lands €152m to build the world’s largest open-architecture quantum processor fab in Delft

The Series B is the largest ever raised by a Dutch deeptech company, and the largest private round any dedicated quantum-processor company has closed. Intel Capital, In-Q-Tel, and ETF Partners are joining a syndicate that already had FORWARD.one and In…

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Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce. The reason it gave was not the crypto downturn. It was AI.
 Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce. The reason it gave was not the crypto downturn. It was AI.

Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce, roughly 660 employees from a company of 4,700, two days before it reports the worst quarterly earnings in its history as a public company. CEO Brian Armstrong announced the layoffs on Tuesday in a lette…

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In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising
 In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising

In 2018, four thousand Google employees signed a petition against Project Maven, a Pentagon contract that used the company’s AI to analyse drone surveillance footage. Google did not renew the contract. It published a set of AI principles pledging not t…

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