Manus eyes $1bn raise to buy itself out of Meta acquisition after Chinese block
Manus eyes $1bn raise to buy itself out of Meta acquisition after Chinese block

Beijing has ordered the Singapore-via-China agentic AI startup to reverse Meta’s $2bn-plus December acquisition. Manus’s response, on Bloomberg’s reporting, is to raise the capital required to buy itself back out. Manus AI, the Singapore-headquartered …

China blocks NVIDIA’s RTX 5090D V2 imports while Jensen Huang was in Beijing
China blocks NVIDIA’s RTX 5090D V2 imports while Jensen Huang was in Beijing

The ban on the China-only Blackwell card landed during the Trump delegation’s state visit, on which the Nvidia CEO was a late addition. Chinese AI buyers had been using the 5090D V2 as a workaround for the H200 procurement vacuum. China stopped grantin…

SpaceX files S-1, opening the path to what would be the largest IPO in history
SpaceX files S-1, opening the path to what would be the largest IPO in history

The prospectus shows $18.7bn of 2025 revenue, a $4.27bn Q1 net loss, an accumulated deficit of $41.3bn, and a balance sheet that includes 18,712 bitcoin worth $1.29bn at quarter-end. SpaceX will list on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. SpaceX has filed it…

NVIDIA beats again, guides to $91bn for Q2 and authorises another $80bn of buybacks
NVIDIA beats again, guides to $91bn for Q2 and authorises another $80bn of buybacks

Q1 revenue $81.6bn (+85% YoY), data centre $75.2bn, net income $58.3bn. The quarterly dividend moves from a penny to 25 cents per share. The buyback is the second $80bn authorisation in three quarters. Nvidia reported first-quarter revenue of $81.6bn o…

Airbnb is adding hotels, car rentals, and luggage storage as it evolves from a home-sharing app into a full travel platform
Airbnb is adding hotels, car rentals, and luggage storage as it evolves from a home-sharing app into a full travel platform

  Airbnb started as a way to book someone else’s spare room. It is now trying to become the app you never leave during a trip. The company’s summer 2026 release adds boutique hotels, car rentals, luggage storage, and thousands of new experiences to the…

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is no longer a single-country experiment in Europe. Lithuania became the second EU member state to approve FSD (Supervised) on Tuesday, just weeks after the Netherlands became the first. Greece and Belgium are expecte…

OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first
OpenAI is about to file for an IPO, and prediction markets think Anthropic just lost the race to go public first

The AI industry’s most consequential race is no longer about building the best model. It is about getting to public markets first. OpenAI appears to have taken the lead. The company is preparing to confidentially file a draft of its IPO prospectus as s…

LinkedIn is finally cracking down on AI slop, and the feed might actually become readable again
LinkedIn is finally cracking down on AI slop, and the feed might actually become readable again

If your LinkedIn feed has felt like it was written by one person with 10 million accounts, you are not imagining things. The platform has become a petri dish for AI-generated posts that say nothing while sounding vaguely inspirational. Now LinkedIn say…

Figma builds its own AI assistant that can design alongside you on the canvas
Figma builds its own AI assistant that can design alongside you on the canvas

Summary: Figma is launching its own AI agent that operates directly on the collaborative design canvas, letting users generate, edit, and iterate on designs through natural language prompts. The move follows partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI and t…

GitHub confirms hackers stole thousands of internal code repositories after employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension
GitHub confirms hackers stole thousands of internal code repositories after employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension

  It is an unsettling irony when the world’s largest code-hosting platform becomes the victim of its own ecosystem. GitHub confirmed on Tuesday that a threat actor exfiltrated approximately 3,800 internal repositories after compromising an employee’s d…