Interpol estimates fraud cost victims $442B in 2025 as AI tools, deepfakes, and fraud-as-a-service kits industrialise scams from Lagos to Southeast Asia.

Chrome 150 will remove the last override keeping Manifest V2 extensions alive. uBlock Origin and other content blockers will stop working by late June.

GIA acquires 30% of Tracr, De Beers's blockchain provenance platform, as natural diamond prices plunge and lab-grown stones grab market share.

India debates building its own AI after the US forced Anthropic to kill Fable 5, with proposals for a $5B annual fund and calls to embrace open-source models.

NHS England is giving 505,000 clinicians and staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot after a 30,000-person trial reported 43 minutes saved per day.

Hong Kong is courting wealthy European families with tax breaks and China tech access as it passes Switzerland to become the world's top offshore wealth hub.

IQM appointed Barbara Venneman to its board as it prepares to become the first European quantum computing company listed on Nasdaq at a $1.8bn valuation.

Anthropic's Fable 5 led every major AI benchmark over OpenAI's GPT 5.5 before a US export control directive forced it offline three days after launch.

Apple's iOS 27 beta contains an Extensions framework for Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT inside Siri, but the feature was absent from the WWDC 2026 keynote.

Skoda's Peaq flagship SUV offers seven seats, 600km range, and V2H charging from around €50,000, undercutting the Kia EV9 and Hyundai Ioniq 9 by margins.

Binance, Bybit, and Bitget canceled tokenized SpaceX IPO campaigns after xStocks failed to deliver shares, leaving over $1 billion in orders unfilled.

PM Carney said the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 shutdown shows the danger of over-reliance on a few AI models, drawing a parallel to the systemic risks of 2008.