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SpaceX rings the bell on its Nasdaq debut, and Musk admits he gave it ‘less than a 10% chance’
SpaceX rang the Nasdaq opening bell on Friday, marking its Nasdaq debut as a public company with the largest IPO on record. It did…
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Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent
Security researchers have found a way to hijack AI coding agents with nothing but a fake bug report. They call it Agentjacking. It…
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OpenAI acquires Ona to run Codex agents inside the customer’s own cloud
OpenAI acquires Ona, the company once known as Gitpod, in its latest enterprise play. The deal, announced on Thursday, folds Ona’s…
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Nvidia’s Vera CPU is its side door back into China
Nvidia has started pitching its Vera CPU to Chinese customers. Orders can begin now, and deliveries could start as soon as August,…
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A SpaceX-Tesla merger was a fantasy. The IPO just made it look plausible.
A SpaceX-Tesla merger has moved from rumour toward roadmap. On the day SpaceX began trading, the people around Elon Musk stopped w…
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European doomerism creeps into tech conferences: 'We have challenges'
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Exclusive: NIF hires ex-EIB investor to run fund of funds programme
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Founders Fund put $600M into SpaceX. The IPO just turned it into $50bn.
Founders Fund’s SpaceX bet has become one of the great venture trades. Peter Thiel’s firm put around $600m into the rocket company…
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US surveillance law to expire for first time after lawmakers reject Trump’s controversial pick to lead spy agencies
The spy law known as Section 702, which authorizes the NSA and FBI's warrantless surveillance, will all but certainly expire on Fr…
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Current’s $80M Series E values the neobank below its 2021 peak
The Current Series E is in. The New York neobank raised $80m, led by Springcoast Partners, at a $1.5bn valuation. That headline hi…
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The UK is about to ban under-16s from social media. Its own child-safety charities are worried.
A UK under-16 social media ban, for years a fringe idea, is now days from becoming government policy. Ministers are expected to ou…
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Paul Murphy leaves Lightspeed — but plans to keep investing
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Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (June 08 – June 12)
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SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, but your retirement fund is picking up the tab
Elon Musk is now worth more than $1 trillion. The SpaceX IPO, which priced 555.6 million shares at $135 each on 12 June, valued th…
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Pleo layoffs hit engineers a day after it launched finance AI agents
On 11 June, Pleo told finance teams that AI agents would soon free them from administrative work. The next day came the Pleo layof…
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Starlink is SpaceX’s cash machine, but the maths is getting harder
SpaceX’s satellite internet service had 10.3 million subscribers at the end of the first quarter of 2026, more than double the 4.4…
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Google sues suspected Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build scam websites
Google has filed a lawsuit against a suspected Chinese cybercrime operation it calls the Outsider Enterprise, alleging the group s…
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UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups
Britain’s Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has pledged to strengthen efforts to channel institutional investment into UK tech comp…
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Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 curbs target China. The backlash came from its own side.
Anthropic built the Claude Fable 5 curbs to keep China’s AI labs out of its most powerful public model. The loudest complaints cam…
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Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.
The chief executives of the three most powerful artificial intelligence companies on Earth are about to sit in the same room as th…
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Alibaba is offering $1.5 billion for China’s last big independent grocer. The bidding war with Meituan is on.
Alibaba Group is offering $1.5 billion to acquire Pupu, one of China’s last independent online grocery platforms, according to Blo…
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Infineon is opening a €5 billion chip factory in Dresden. It is the EU Chips Act’s first major success.
Infineon Technologies is preparing to open its largest single investment, a €5 billion semiconductor factory on its Dresden campus…
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The world’s top-selling robot vacuum maker is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO. It also wants to build a hypercar.
Dreame Technology, a Chinese maker of robotic vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, and pool cleaners, is considering a Hong Kong initial …
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Slovakia’s Nordics rebrands as Definic, raises €2.5 million to scale its vendor intelligence platform
Košice-based Nordics today announced that it has rebranded to Definic and closed a €2.5 million Seed round as it expands from a re…