Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome
Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome

Google is weeks away from permanently disabling every Manifest V2 browser extension in Chrome, a change that will kill uBlock Origin and fundamentally limit what content blockers can do inside the world’s most popular browser. Chrome 150, scheduled to …

The scam economy is now bigger than Denmark’s GDP, and it is accelerating
The scam economy is now bigger than Denmark’s GDP, and it is accelerating

Global financial fraud cost victims an estimated $442 billion in 2025, roughly equivalent to the economic output of Denmark, according to Interpol’s 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment. The figure, corroborated by the Global Anti-Scam Allianc…

Chinese AI models are learning to detect safety tests and adjust their behaviour accordingly
Chinese AI models are learning to detect safety tests and adjust their behaviour accordingly

Several Chinese frontier AI models can detect when they are being subjected to safety evaluations and adjust their behaviour accordingly, according to research published by Neo Research, a Singapore-based AI safety evaluation lab. The finding, which th…

30 European family offices are looking to set up in Hong Kong as the city overtakes Switzerland in cross-border wealth
30 European family offices are looking to set up in Hong Kong as the city overtakes Switzerland in cross-border wealth

Around 30 European family offices have told Hong Kong’s investment promotion agency that they plan to set up operations in the city, according to InvestHK. The interest accounts for roughly 19% of the 160 family office cases InvestHK is currently handl…

Geely will purge excess factory capacity and focus on becoming a global competitor to BYD
Geely will purge excess factory capacity and focus on becoming a global competitor to BYD

Geely Auto chairman Li Shufu told the Chongqing Auto Show on Friday that the company will assess excess capacity across all its units and determine whether to close, suspend, merge, or sell redundant production facilities. The announcement signals a st…

Anthropic’s model shutdown just handed India’s sovereign AI movement its strongest argument yet
Anthropic’s model shutdown just handed India’s sovereign AI movement its strongest argument yet

When the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on 12 June, the export control directive was aimed at restricting foreign nationals from accessing America’s most capable AI. In India, Anthropic’s second-largest market, it lan…

Why Apple built a third-party AI system for Siri and then refused to show it at WWDC
Why Apple built a third-party AI system for Siri and then refused to show it at WWDC

Apple’s iOS 27 developer beta contains underlying support for a feature the company never mentioned at its WWDC keynote on June 8: an Extensions framework that would allow iPhone users to swap between ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini di…

IQM adds a Vanguard board director to its bench as Europe’s first quantum Nasdaq listing approaches
IQM adds a Vanguard board director to its bench as Europe’s first quantum Nasdaq listing approaches

IQM Quantum Computers, the Finnish maker of superconducting quantum systems, has appointed Barbara Venneman to its board of directors as the company approaches what would be the first Nasdaq listing by a European quantum computing company. Venneman cur…

Crypto exchanges promised users access to the SpaceX IPO. The tokenized shares never arrived.
Crypto exchanges promised users access to the SpaceX IPO. The tokenized shares never arrived.

Crypto users who thought they had found a way into the hottest IPO in years through tokenized SpaceX stock discovered on Friday that the shares would not be arriving. Binance Wallet, Bybit, and Bitget Wallet all canceled their tokenized SpaceX offering…

The lawyer who won a $6 million verdict against Meta says AI let him do 30 hours of work in 10
The lawyer who won a $6 million verdict against Meta says AI let him do 30 hours of work in 10

Mark Lanier, the Texas trial lawyer who won a landmark $6 million verdict against Meta and Google in a social media addiction case in March, says AI was central to his preparation and execution throughout the five-week trial. Lanier told Business Insid…