Microsoft Frontier company will deploy 6,000 engineers to deliver enterprise AI outcomes. AWS launched a $1B version two days earlier. OpenAI and Anthropic too.

Ford sold 549,200 vehicles in Q2, down 10.3%. Pure EV sales plunged 40.7%. F-Series sales fell 11% after its top aluminium supplier suffered two factory fires.

From 15 September, Cloudflare will block AI training bots from ad-supported pages by default and pay publishers when their content shapes an AI answer.

Tesla beat delivery estimates by 18% in Q2 2026, posting 480,126 deliveries. It was a 25% YoY increase and 34% jump from Q1 as the company tries to rebound.

The Court of Justice of the EU has dismissed Google's final appeal against a €4.1 billion Android antitrust fine, closing an eight-year case.

UNICEF says 20 million children across 10 countries have used AI, adopting it over three times faster than adults, and warns child safety rules aren't keeping up.

Getty Images is terminating its $3.7bn Shutterstock merger after the UK's CMA demanded a sale it would not accept, despite US antitrust clearance.

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Trondheim's Alva Industries has raised €16m led by Nysnø, Sandwater and Emerald Technology Ventures to scale its FiberPrinting motor technology.

Oxmiq Labs has raised a $35m Series A to scale OxCore, a licensable GPU architecture meant to cut the cost of building custom AI silicon.

BYD gained 9% and Xiaomi 5% in Hong Kong after June figures. BYD sold 403,472 units. Xiaomi hit its third straight month above 30,000 deliveries.

The US is negotiating voluntary standards for releasing advanced AI models, the FT reports, building on Trump's June executive order.