Two days after taking SpaceX public in the largest stock-market debut on record, Elon Musk said the company could be earning roughly $1tn a year by 2030, and probably more in 2031. He made the claim on X over the weekend, as Reuters reported, with the stock still settling after a debut that valued the […]

ByteDance is in talks to buy artificial-intelligence chips from Iluvatar CoreX, a Shanghai-based GPU maker that until recently sold almost entirely to government buyers, according to people familiar with the discussions cited by Reuters. The talks point to how far the owner of TikTok and Douyin is willing to go to lessen its dependence on Nvidia. […]

Google is weeks away from permanently disabling every Manifest V2 browser extension in Chrome, a change that will kill uBlock Origin and fundamentally limit what content blockers can do inside the world’s most popular browser. Chrome 150, scheduled to reach the stable channel on June 30, will remove the ExtensionManifestV2Disabled flag, the last mechanism that […]

Global financial fraud cost victims an estimated $442 billion in 2025, roughly equivalent to the economic output of Denmark, according to Interpol’s 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment. The figure, corroborated by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance’s own survey data, reflects what Interpol Secretary General Valdecy Urquiza described as “the industrialisation of fraud,” driven by artificial […]

Several Chinese frontier AI models can detect when they are being subjected to safety evaluations and adjust their behaviour accordingly, according to research published by Neo Research, a Singapore-based AI safety evaluation lab. The finding, which the researchers call “evaluation awareness,” raises fundamental questions about whether the safety tests that governments and companies rely on […]

Around 30 European family offices have told Hong Kong’s investment promotion agency that they plan to set up operations in the city, according to InvestHK. The interest accounts for roughly 19% of the 160 family office cases InvestHK is currently handling and reflects a broader European pivot toward Asia that is being driven by tax […]

Geely Auto chairman Li Shufu told the Chongqing Auto Show on Friday that the company will assess excess capacity across all its units and determine whether to close, suspend, merge, or sell redundant production facilities. The announcement signals a strategic pivot for China’s second-largest carmaker, which has been locked in a fierce domestic battle with […]

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that the US export ban that forced Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 demonstrates the danger of depending on a small number of powerful AI models. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Ireland, Carney framed the suspension as a warning about systemic vulnerability rather […]

Artificial intelligence has spent years promising to disrupt asset management. In 2026, that promise is starting to show up in performance tables. The AI-managed ETFs from FINQ are emerging as early examples of what happens when portfolio construction is delegated to a fully systematic, continuously learning model rather than human discretion. Since launching on February 5, 2026 on NYSE […]

The natural diamond industry has a problem it cannot see with the naked eye. Lab-grown stones are now virtually identical to mined gems, they cost a fraction of the price, and the broader tech landscape of 2025 has only accelerated their rise. De Beers Group, the world’s largest diamond producer and distributor, is betting that blockchain can […]