GIA acquires 30% of Tracr, De Beers's blockchain provenance platform, as natural diamond prices plunge and lab-grown stones grab market share.

IQM appointed Barbara Venneman to its board as it prepares to become the first European quantum computing company listed on Nasdaq at a $1.8bn valuation.

India debates building its own AI after the US forced Anthropic to kill Fable 5, with proposals for a $5B annual fund and calls to embrace open-source models.

NHS England is giving 505,000 clinicians and staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot after a 30,000-person trial reported 43 minutes saved per day.

Hong Kong is courting wealthy European families with tax breaks and China tech access as it passes Switzerland to become the world's top offshore wealth hub.

Apple's iOS 27 beta contains an Extensions framework for Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT inside Siri, but the feature was absent from the WWDC 2026 keynote.

Anthropic's Fable 5 led every major AI benchmark over OpenAI's GPT 5.5 before a US export control directive forced it offline three days after launch.

Skoda's Peaq flagship SUV offers seven seats, 600km range, and V2H charging from around €50,000, undercutting the Kia EV9 and Hyundai Ioniq 9 by margins.

Binance, Bybit, and Bitget canceled tokenized SpaceX IPO campaigns after xStocks failed to deliver shares, leaving over $1 billion in orders unfilled.

PM Carney said the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 shutdown shows the danger of over-reliance on a few AI models, drawing a parallel to the systemic risks of 2008.

Geely chairman Li Shufu said the company will close, merge, or sell redundant plants as it pivots from domestic price wars to international expansion.

Neo Research found that Chinese AI models including Kimi K2.6 and DeepSeek V4 Pro can tell when they are being evaluated, raising questions about test validity.