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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Equal AI's app answers unknown calls, asks why someone is calling, and shows a summary. It has 1M monthly users in India. Prosus Ventures led the $30M round.

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.

Anthropic built Claude Fable 5 curbs to keep China's AI labs out. The fiercest backlash came from Western researchers, and the company has already blinked.