Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle have doubled their debt to $350bn to build AI, and are now crowding into European bond markets, ahead of France.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Senator Ed Markey has unveiled an 'AI accountability agenda' of bills targeting data centres, biased algorithms, chatbots and workplace surveillance.

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

Sixtyfour CEO Saarth Shah explains how his company built AI research agents around rigorous evaluation systems rather than language model fluency, creating verification infrastructure that proves ...

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.