Lucid is cutting $1.4bn and betting its survival on robotaxis

Lucid’s turnaround plan comes down to spending far less and hoping robotaxis pay off. The luxury electric-vehicle maker unveiled a $1.4bn cash-savings programme this week, alongside a second-quarter [...]

How to choose an app development agency for your startup: a founder’s guide

For founders building from idea to MVP to scale, Chop Dawg makes the case for choosing a technical partner with process, staying power, and long-term accountability. Start With the Decision That Shape [...]

$26,000 lab monkeys are the strange measure of China’s biotech boom

The clearest sign of China’s drug-development surge is not a molecule but a monkey. The price of a research primate there has climbed toward 150,000 yuan, roughly $26,000, and it keeps rising. That [...]

Moove raises $250m at a $2.1bn valuation to run robotaxi fleets

Moove has quietly become one of the more valuable names in autonomous mobility. The company has raised $250m in a Series C round that values it at $2.1bn, a marker of how far it has travelled from its [...]

X is fighting a Turkish order to block Ekrem Imamoglu’s campaign account

X has been ordered to silence one of the most closely watched accounts in Turkish politics. A court has told the platform to restrict access, within Turkey, to the presidential-campaign account of jai [...]

A Fed official is asking whether AI is becoming ‘too big to fail’

A senior Federal Reserve official has put an uncomfortable question on the table. Speaking this week, Kansas City Fed president Jeff Schmid said the finances around the AI buildout now merit close wat [...]

Texas called itself the “epicenter of AI.” Now it won’t plug in a data centre until it’s audited

Texas spent years selling itself as the easiest place in America to build a data centre. This week it started making that harder. Governor Greg Abbott, who last year called the state the “epicenter [...]

AI is flooding bug bounties. Microsoft paid a record; Apple slammed the door

AI has learned to find software bugs faster than people can, and the programmes that pay for them are straining. In a single week, the three biggest went three different ways. Microsoft paid out a rec [...]

LegaBot launches the first football league run entirely by AI agents. It never stops playing.

LegaBot launches on Saturday with the first football league operated entirely by AI agents, running 24 hours a day with no predetermined outcomes. The inaugural season features 20 original city-based [...]