Germany registered 84,057 EVs in June, beating hybrids (83,315), petrol (60,796) and diesel (33,862). EVs now hold 28.4% of the market. Tesla Model Y led.

US adults have used AI for dating help. Match, Hinge, and Bumble say they are not screening for AI-written messages. The phenomenon is called chatfishing.

Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8, a 2.4T-parameter model it claims is second only to Anthropic’s Fable 5, but it has shown no benchmarks and no open weights yet.

Hugging Face says an autonomous AI agent breached its systems. It caught the AI agent breach with AI of its own, then ran forensics on Chinese GLM 5.2 ...

Deloitte’s latest UK CFO Survey finds 73% of finance chiefs optimistic about AI, up from 39% two years ago, even as spending stays cautious.

CuspAI launched an AI Materials Foundry with Nvidia, Meta and 45+ partners, and confirmed a $450m round backed by Bezos and the UK government at $2.6bn.

Zhongji Innolight, a maker of AI data-centre optics, is gauging demand for an $8bn Hong Kong listing, the city's biggest since Alibaba in 2019.

Prysmian has signed a €5.5bn, 10-year agreement with Molex, the Koch-owned connector and cable maker, to supply optical cable for use inside AI data centres. Unusually for a supply deal of this size, ...

AI deepfakes let hackers pose as staff, the "synthetic insider" threat. Yet most insider leaks are still accidents, and AI agents are the next risk.

Samsung Display is shipping tandem OLED laptop panels that reach 1,600 nits, 40% brighter than single-stack OLED. Lenovo has the first certified product.

China's passenger car sales fell 20.2% in H1 2026. ICE vehicles dropped 39% in June. Exports surged 82%. Analysts expect only 7-8 automakers to survive.

More than 140 rallies across 42 states turned scattered data centre zoning fights into a national movement over power bills, water and secrecy.