The Qwen app gets access to Taobao and Tmall’s catalogue of more than 4 billion items, plus Alipay-native checkout, in what is the largest agentic-commerce launch yet from a Chinese platform. Alibaba is integrating its Qwen AI app with Taobao and Tmall, the company’s two largest consumer marketplaces, in what amounts to the most ambitious […]

$30bn went to OpenAI; the rest is spread across CoreWeave, IREN, Corning, Nebius, and roughly two dozen private rounds. The pattern is closer to vertical integration than to venture investing, and is starting to draw the inevitable circular-deal questions. NVIDIA has committed more than $40 billion to AI equity investments in the first four months […]

Trump Media & Technology Group reported a $405.9 million net loss for the first quarter of 2026, the company said on Friday, almost all of it driven by unrealised losses on the cryptocurrency holdings it has spent the past nine months building. Operating cash flow was a positive $17.9 million; total financial assets stood at […]

  A manual penetration test costs between 10,000 and 50,000 dollars. It takes weeks to schedule, days to execute, and produces a report that is out of date before the ink dries. Intruder, a London-based cybersecurity company that graduated from GCHQ’s Cyber Accelerator, has launched AI pentesting agents that replicate the methodology of a human […]

  Quantinuum filed for a US initial public offering on Thursday that could value the company at more than 20 billion dollars. In the year ended 31 December 2025, Quantinuum reported revenue of 30.9 million dollars and a net loss of 192.6 million dollars. The company is asking public market investors to pay a premium […]

  Akamai Technologies disclosed a 1.8 billion dollar, seven-year cloud infrastructure deal with a customer it described only as “a leading frontier model provider.” Bloomberg identified the customer as Anthropic. The stock rose 27 per cent in a single day, the largest rally in the company’s 28-year history. A company that built its business delivering […]

  Google launched a 99 dollar screenless fitness tracker and a 9.99 dollar per month AI health coach powered by Gemini. One day later, Whoop announced that it would add on-demand video consultations with licensed clinicians to its app. Google is betting that artificial intelligence can interpret your health data. Whoop is betting that you […]

  Anthropic built an AI model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. The Federal Reserve chair and the Treasury secretary called bank CEOs to discuss it. The company says there is a six-to-twelve month window to patch the flaws before adversaries build models that can do the […]

  The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed, before Microsoft committed billions, and before the company was worth more than some countries. Court documents from the Musk v. Altman trial revealed this week that the stake carries a target redemption value of two billion dollars. A university endowment made […]

  The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that the Tesla Model Y is the first vehicle to pass NHTSA’s new advanced driver assistance safety tests. The same agency is simultaneously investigating 3.2 million Tesla vehicles for crashing while using the company’s more advanced self-driving system. The announcement celebrates Tesla for passing a test that measures […]