France hosts the G7 with an AI pitch built on other people’s billions

France took over the G7 this week with Emmanuel Macron pressing artificial intelligence to the front of the agenda and, with it, a good deal of his own standing. The summit runs from 15 to 17 June, an [...]

The freelancer admin tax is real. Here’s how to cut it in half (and save 70% on FreshBooks while you’re at it)

The numbers are quietly damning. The average freelancer in 2026 spends between eight and 10 hours a week on administrative work that has nothing to do with the service they are paid to deliver. This a [...]

US order to block foreign access to Anthropic’s top models marks a reversal

The US government has ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, and rather than try to enforce a nationality rule selectively across a shared cloud service, the c [...]

India’s Razorpay files for IPO through the confidential route

Razorpay, the Bengaluru payments company, has filed draft papers for an initial public offering through India’s confidential route, according to people familiar with the matter. The filing moves one [...]

Schneider Electric and Foxconn partner on AI data-centre infrastructure

Schneider Electric has announced a strategic collaboration with Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, to design and scale the next generation of AI data centres. The deal, announced on 1 [...]

AT&S pours up to €2bn into Malaysia and China to ride the AI chip boom

AT&S, the Austrian maker of printed circuit boards and chip substrates, will spend between €1.5bn and €2bn expanding capacity for the high-end IC substrates that AI and high-performance comput [...]

Tesla gave European regulators misleading self-driving safety data

Tesla put self-published safety statistics in front of regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety researchers say amount to misleading marketing, according to a Reuters [...]

Google’s Sundar Pichai chose optimism over AI at Stanford. Graduates walked out anyway

The man who runs one of the world’s largest artificial-intelligence companies stood up to address Stanford’s graduating class and, for the most part, declined to talk about artificial intelligence [...]

Fox acquires Roku for $22bn to plant its flag in streaming’s front door

Fox acquires Roku in a $22bn deal that drags the cable-reliant broadcaster squarely into streaming. Fox Corporation will pay $160 a share, in cash and stock, for the maker of the streaming sticks and [...]