Two of the biggest names in tech now want to watch the web on your behalf. Within a month, both Google and Apple announced features that monitor web pages and tell you when something changes. Both claim they will use AI to alert you when a condition is met and reduce false positives. At its […]

Anthropic on Tuesday released Claude Fable 5, a model built on the same architecture as its restricted Mythos system, making Mythos-class intelligence publicly available for the first time. Fable 5 is available to enterprise customers and paid subscribers, but it comes with new safeguards that block responses in cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and what Anthropic calls […]

Rivian began handing over the first R2 SUVs to paying customers on Tuesday, opening a new chapter for a company that has burned through billions of dollars trying to prove it can build electric vehicles at scale. The R2 starts at $57,990 for the Performance trim with Launch Package, considerably above the $45,000 price point […]

The UK government used London Tech Week to announce a £1.1 billion AI Hardware Plan and a £200 million AI Adoption package, alongside reforms that will put AI into the justice system and a new data lab aimed at preventing homelessness. The announcements represent the most concentrated burst of technology investment the current government has […]

Lovable, the Swedish vibe-coding platform that lets users build apps through natural language, has published its first data report on what it calls the “build economy.” The report draws on product usage data from January 2025 to May 2026, alongside a May 2026 user survey, and describes a shift in who builds software, what they […]

Atomicwork, the Palo Alto-based enterprise IT platform, has launched what it calls the first governed AI workforce for enterprise service teams. The platform lets organisations deploy AI agents, which the company calls “AI Coworkers,” with defined job roles, skills, budgets, and scoped permissions. The pitch is that IT departments should manage AI agents the same […]

SpaceX’s initial public offering has attracted institutional orders for multiple times the available shares, according to people familiar with the matter. Multiple investors have individually placed orders of $10 billion or more. Banks leading the deal told investors on Tuesday that demand increased further after management meetings, and the offering was described as well oversubscribed. […]

The European Commission has ordered Meta to “restore free access to WhatsApp for rival general purpose AI assistants” within five working days. The interim measures, announced on Tuesday, are designed to prevent what the Commission called “serious and irreparable damage to competition” in the AI assistant market. Meta said it would appeal. The company described […]

The Dutch government will expand its investment-screening regime to cover six additional technologies, including artificial intelligence, from 1 January 2027. The rules will affect hundreds of companies, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs. “The Netherlands is the target for cyber operations, espionage and sabotage,” Economic Affairs Minister Heleen Herbert said. “Our goal remains an […]

SoftBank knocked Toyota off its perch as Japan’s most valuable company last week, after a stock rally inflated the conglomerate’s market capitalisation by more than $120 billion in six months. Three days later, Toyota reclaimed the top spot. The last time SoftBank held that position was February 2000, when the dot-com bubble was on the cusp of […]