China pitches free AI for the developing world as the G7 debates who gets access to American models

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi announced on Wednesday that Beijing is “accelerating the establishment of a global AI cooperation organization” and invited all countries to join. The comments came [...]

FTC freezes sprawling subscription enterprise built on Cyprus and Delaware shells

A federal court has temporarily shut down what the US Federal Trade Commission describes as a sprawling enterprise of deceptive subscription apps, freezing the operations of 15 corporations and eight [...]

A Colombian AI startup wants to assist half of Latin America’s doctors. Andreessen Horowitz just backed it.

Telepatia, an AI clinical assistant built for Latin American healthcare, has raised $33 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company wants to reach half of the region’s 1.9 million [...]

Europe’s carmakers are pivoting to defence as EV demand slows and military budgets soar

Four European automakers announced military vehicle partnerships in the past week. Ineos is bidding for a UK Ministry of Defence contract. Daimler Truck launched a dedicated defence brand. Renault par [...]

Parafin lands a Goldman Sachs credit facility to embed lending inside Amazon, DoorDash, and Walmart

Parafin, an embedded financial infrastructure company on the 2026 Forbes Fintech 50 list, has secured a new credit facility led by Goldman Sachs alongside One William Street Capital Management. The fa [...]

ECB’s Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance

ECB President Christine Lagarde warned on Wednesday that artificial intelligence could trigger dangerous financial crises and called for global AI governance modelled on the Cold War-era non-prolifera [...]

The Trump Mobile T1 was supposed to be made in America. It’s a Taiwanese phone with a gold coat.

The Trump Mobile T1 is here, and it is not what was promised. When Donald Trump’s eldest sons unveiled it at Trump Tower a year ago, the pitch was a gold-coloured handset with an iPhone resemblance, [...]

Apple to raise prices as memory chip shortage bites, Tim Cook says

Apple is going to raise prices, and Tim Cook is no longer pretending otherwise. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the chief executive said the company could not keep absorbing the soaring [...]

Google’s Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI

Noam Shazeer is leaving Google for OpenAI. The man widely credited as a principal architect of Google’s Gemini models and a co-author of the 2017 transformer paper that underpins virtually every mod [...]