The best streaming deals: Get 50 percent off MasterClass subscriptions, plus save on Starz, Audible, Crunchyroll and others

Whether you’re a true cord-cutter or you just want to watch the next season of Stranger Things when it drops, everyone’s on the lookout for streaming deals nowadays. Plenty have chosen VOD and liv [...]

X said Chinese bots fuelled the data centre backlash. A researcher checked

X said it had found a Chinese bot farm pushing Americans to turn against AI data centres. A researcher who went looking for those accounts found that almost nobody had seen them. Darren Linvill, a res [...]

Microsoft is killing its AI mascot, ten months after building it

The cull lands on Tuesday. Group Chat, Podcasts, Copilot Labs and consumer Deep Research all retire that day, according to Microsoft’s own support page. Mico goes at the same time, out of the voice [...]

A former NASA chief is taking Quantum Space public at $1.2bn to build spacecraft for the next space race

The last time Jim Bridenstine shaped America’s space ambitions, he ran NASA. Now he is betting he can build the hardware for the next phase of the space race, and he wants public investors to fund i [...]

McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski reveals his favorite menu item

The fast food chain's chairman and CEO jumped on a social media trend, making some difficult — and questionable — choices along the way [...]

Amazon takes on $17.5 billion in new debt as AI spending pushes total borrowing past $225 billion

Amazon has agreed to a $17.5 billion delayed-draw term loan led by Citigroup, the latest in a borrowing spree fuelled by its race to build AI infrastructure. The cash is available through the end of S [...]

Microsoft launches a $2.5 billion AI deployment business with 6,000 engineers

Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The venture is focused on de [...]

The first Ferrari Luce sold for $40mn, 36 times its estimate

The first production Ferrari Luce sold for $40mn at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction, setting records for the most expensive new car, electric car and charity car sold at public auction. Ferrari keeps [...]

DeepSeek closes $7bn-plus round with an unusual structure

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab that unsettled the industry with a cheap, capable model last year, has closed its first round of outside funding, raising roughly 50 billion yuan, about $7bn, in a deal wh [...]