A rocket motor blew up at Anduril’s Mississippi test site. The defence darling says it’s routine

Anduril has become the poster child for a faster, software-speed kind of defence contractor. Last Friday, one of its rocket motors blew up on a test stand in Mississippi. The blast is a small setback [...]

Dutch military backs Intelic’s drone software with tens of millions of euros

The three-year deal aims to let drones from different manufacturers operate under one command system, a lesson the Netherlands says it has drawn from Ukraine. The Netherlands’ Ministry of Defence is [...]

China approves Unitree’s Shanghai listing registration, valuing IPO at $619M

China’s securities regulator has approved Unitree Robotics’ registration to list on Shanghai’s STAR Market, clearing the last formal hurdle before the humanoid robot maker can price and sell sha [...]

India widens its usernames crackdown to Telegram and Signal

A government source says the IT ministry has sent notices to both apps, a day after ordering WhatsApp to pause its own usernames rollout. India’s technology ministry has sent notices to Telegram and [...]

Temu-Owner PDD beats profit estimates as revenue growth slows to 8%

PDD Holdings posted adjusted quarterly earnings of 19.33 yuan per share against estimates of 18.51, with revenue up 8% to 112.4bn yuan, or $16.6bn, missing forecasts. Shares rose about 3.5% premarket [...]

Apple’s new CEO gets a $3M salary and a $55M equity target

John Ternus will receive a base salary of $3m a year as Apple’s chief executive, roughly 5% of what the company is targeting for his total compensation. The rest is equity, according to a regulatory [...]

Aptera has found someone to build its solar car, and it is in Shanghai

Aptera has partnered with Shanghai’s Launch Design on a manufacturing programme worth up to $44mn, covering tooling, testing and pilot production. Aptera pays two-thirds of the costs, while its late [...]

How a 23-year old builder made AI video simple

At just 23, Sean Grindal is betting on an idea he has watched take shape across a decade in software: that the hardest part of AI tools is no longer what they can do, but how few people can figure out [...]

A “private and secure” face-search tool left 9 million photos exposed

A people-search tool that promises “private and secure” searches left more than 9 million image files exposed online, including photos of people’s faces. A security researcher found the unprotec [...]