Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxi, via the AmiGo venture with Swiss Post's PostBus, has won a Level 4 permit in Switzerland. Open-road trials began on 1 June.

A major Meta outage hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger worldwide. Down Detector logged 130,000+ reports before service began to return.

Thena Capital has closed a £45M fund, the first all-female GP team to win British Business Bank ECF backing, with five UK medtech bets already moving.

Mistral is in funding talks to raise about €3bn at a roughly €20bn valuation, Bloomberg reports, nearly doubling the European AI champion's September price.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind CEOs will attend the G7 in France next week, as two of the three prepare for landmark IPOs and face AI governance scrutiny.

Infineon's €5 billion Smart Power Fab opens 2 July in Dresden, producing AI data centre power chips. It is the EU Chips Act's first major success after Intel's Magdeburg cancellation.

Tenet Security's 'Agentjacking' attack turns a fake Sentry error into code running on developer machines. It hijacked Claude Code, Cursor & Codex.

On its Nasdaq debut, SpaceX rang the bell, launched a Falcon 9, and Musk admitted he gave the firm 'less than a 10% chance'. It's the largest IPO ever.

OpenAI acquires Ona, the German startup once called Gitpod, to run Codex agents inside customers' own clouds. The real fight is enterprise trust.

Keir Starmer is set to announce a UK under-16 social media ban within days. The child-safety charities who campaigned say a blanket ban could backfire.

SpaceX's record $75B IPO pushed Elon Musk past $1 trillion. Nasdaq's fast-tracked index rules now force retirement funds to buy shares in a money-losing company.

Founders Fund invested around $600m in SpaceX over nearly 20 years. At the IPO valuation, Founders Fund's SpaceX stake is worth more than $50bn, on paper.