Britain's new £2bn AI 'Combat Laboratory' will train 60,000 soldiers a year. A US firm leads it, and Germany's Rheinmetall takes nearly half.

MiniMax is raising up to $2bn after an 80% crash, while founder Yan Junjie vows no salary until AGI and pledges 5% of his shares to staff and open source.

X's NEO home robot has new tendon-driven hands with 25 degrees of freedom and tactile skin. Feeling a glass slip is easy; real chores are not.

The UK has named Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle its first "critical third parties", putting the four clouds under financial oversight from 13 July.

Anthropic's new Jacobian lens reads the unspoken thoughts in Claude's hidden 'workspace', catching the model plan blackmail before it types a word.

Anwar Ibrahim's government will soon deploy PMX AI, an agentic avatar trained on his speeches that talks like him and walks citizens through gov services.

OpenAI and Google confirmed they supply advanced AI to Singapore units of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, exposing a gap in US export controls.

British firm Kraken raised $175M (€152.9M), led by DTCP, at a $1bn valuation to build uncrewed war boats for NATO, the US and UK.

Anthropic's shares imply a $1.2tn valuation on secondary markets, ahead of OpenAI's $908bn. The catch: almost no one is willing to sell.

China caught a Long March-10B booster in a net at sea, its first reusable-rocket recovery. It joins SpaceX and Blue Origin, but trails badly.

Mercor is in talks to double to a $20bn valuation and has bought Deeptune, an AI-training startup its own CEO backed. The footnotes are the story.

UC San Diego surgeons used two teleoperated humanoid robots to remove gallbladders from live pigs, the first time such machines have operated live.