Norway's sovereign wealth fund withheld its vote on Elkann's Meta board reappointment and backed shareholder proposals on AI data privacy and hate speech.

Wingtech seeks 8 billion yuan in damages from Nexperia after the Dutch government seized control of the chipmaker, invoking China's Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law.

Consumers have shifted from searching for information to seeking certainty. A veteran marketer explains why brands that can't survive the verification moment will lose to those that can.

Starbucks has retired its AI inventory tool across North American stores nine months after launch, citing reliability issues and reverting to manual counts.

Meta has quietly released Forum, a standalone Reddit-style app built on Facebook Groups, with an AI “Ask” tab and an admin assistant.

Chinese carmakers led by BYD and Chery took more than 15% of European EV sales in April 2026, doubling deliveries to 38,281 units, according to Dataforce.

Lenovo reported $21.6bn in Q4 revenue, beating estimates by $2.2bn, on a 26% PC rebound and 84% AI revenue growth. Shares rose 15% in Hong Kong.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries jumped 12% on news of a physical-AI partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, Fujitsu, and Analog Devices, with its CORLEO robot leading the showcase.

Italy’s Guardia di Finanza has seized CINEMAGOAL, a piracy app that decrypted Sky, DAZN, and Netflix streams using credentials from fictitious legitimate subscribers.

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has told investors the Hangzhou lab is targeting AGI, in its first-ever outside raise at a reported $10bn valuation.

NVentures, Nvidia's venture arm, has joined Alice & Bob's €100m Series B in an extension round. The Paris quantum firm targets a useful machine by 2030.

ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans cut 22% of staff and introduced $1M salary bands for a '100x org' where AI agents outnumber employees 3:1.