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.

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.

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.

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

Founders Fund invested around $600m in SpaceX over nearly 20 years. At the IPO valuation, Founders Fund's SpaceX stake is worth more than $50bn, on paper.

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.

SpaceX's record $75B IPO pushed Elon Musk past $1 trillion. Nasdaq's fast-tracked index rules now force retirement funds to buy shares in a money-losing company.

Google files lawsuit against the Outsider Enterprise, a suspected Chinese cybercrime operation that allegedly used Gemini AI to send 2.5 million scam texts to Android users.

Liz Kendall pledges legal reforms to channel institutional capital into British tech firms, but American companies still dominate UK government AI contracts.