Germany registered 84,057 EVs in June, beating hybrids (83,315), petrol (60,796) and diesel (33,862). EVs now hold 28.4% of the market. Tesla Model Y led.

US adults have used AI for dating help. Match, Hinge, and Bumble say they are not screening for AI-written messages. The phenomenon is called chatfishing.

AI deepfakes let hackers pose as staff, the "synthetic insider" threat. Yet most insider leaks are still accidents, and AI agents are the next risk.

Zhongji Innolight, a maker of AI data-centre optics, is gauging demand for an $8bn Hong Kong listing, the city's biggest since Alibaba in 2019.

CuspAI launched an AI Materials Foundry with Nvidia, Meta and 45+ partners, and confirmed a $450m round backed by Bezos and the UK government at $2.6bn.

Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8, a 2.4T-parameter model it claims is second only to Anthropic’s Fable 5, but it has shown no benchmarks and no open weights yet.

China's passenger car sales fell 20.2% in H1 2026. ICE vehicles dropped 39% in June. Exports surged 82%. Analysts expect only 7-8 automakers to survive.

Kenya is investigating a cyberattack that defaced President Ruto’s website and carried a five-bitcoin ransom demand. Officials say no data was stolen.

Alibaba’s AliExpress has been hit with a €550 million ($629 million) fine from the European Union. Brussels says the Chinese shopping platform failed to keep illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products ...

Demand for Kimi K3 pushed Moonshot’s GPUs to their limit within 48 hours, so the Chinese lab paused new subscriptions and split its plans into two tiers.

Prysmian has signed a €5.5bn, 10-year agreement with Molex, the Koch-owned connector and cable maker, to supply optical cable for use inside AI data centres. Unusually for a supply deal of this size, ...

Hugging Face says an autonomous AI agent breached its systems. It caught the AI agent breach with AI of its own, then ran forensics on Chinese GLM 5.2 ...