The designer whose Tropicana rebrand crashed sales 20 per cent is now branding the US government. He has two months.
The designer whose Tropicana rebrand crashed sales 20 per cent is now branding the US government. He has two months.

The United States government now has a chief brand architect. Peter Arnell, the designer whose four-decade career includes creating the DKNY brand identity, redesigning the Pepsi logo in a project accompanied by a 27-page strategy document that referen…

He carried a kill list of AI CEOs and a jug of kerosene. His lawyer called it a property crime. The charges carry life in prison.
He carried a kill list of AI CEOs and a jug of kerosene. His lawyer called it a property crime. The charges carry life in prison.

Daniel Moreno-Gama, the 20-year-old accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the San Francisco home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and then walking three miles to OpenAI’s headquarters to threaten to burn the building down, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to …

In April 2025, Intel was trading at $18. Fourteen months later it hit an all-time high. The turnaround was not built by Intel alone.
In April 2025, Intel was trading at $18. Fourteen months later it hit an all-time high. The turnaround was not built by Intel alone.

In April 2025, Intel’s stock was trading at 18 dollars. The company had fired its CEO three months earlier, lost the AI chip race to Nvidia so completely that analysts had stopped including it in competitive comparisons, and was being discussed in the …

Half of young Europeans turn to AI to talk about intimate matters
Half of young Europeans turn to AI to talk about intimate matters

Before we talk about the technology, we need to talk about what it is taking from us, or teaching us to give away. As journalists and writers covering tech, our job is not only to report what is being built, funded, launched, or regulated. It is also t…

Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce. The reason it gave was not the crypto downturn. It was AI.
Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce. The reason it gave was not the crypto downturn. It was AI.

Coinbase is cutting 14 per cent of its workforce, roughly 660 employees from a company of 4,700, two days before it reports the worst quarterly earnings in its history as a public company. CEO Brian Armstrong announced the layoffs on Tuesday in a lette…

In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising
In 2018, 4,000 Google employees killed a Pentagon contract. In 2026, Google signed a bigger one. Now the AI researchers are unionising

In 2018, four thousand Google employees signed a petition against Project Maven, a Pentagon contract that used the company’s AI to analyse drone surveillance footage. Google did not renew the contract. It published a set of AI principles pledging not t…

Tesla’s FSD rollout in Europe runs into the regulator scepticism Musk has been projecting through
Tesla’s FSD rollout in Europe runs into the regulator scepticism Musk has been projecting through

Elon Musk’s public confidence about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving rollout in Europe is, on the available evidence, not shared by the European regulators who would actually have to approve it. Reuters published an exclusive analysis of regulator emails and …

Intel hires Qualcomm veteran Alex Katouzian to lead a new Client Computing and Physical AI group
Intel hires Qualcomm veteran Alex Katouzian to lead a new Client Computing and Physical AI group

Lip-Bu Tan’s leadership of Intel has, since the early months of his tenure, run on a single recognisable pattern: hire from rivals, restructure around the new hires, and rebuild the bench. On Monday Intel announced its latest such move. Alex Katouzian,…

Musk settles SEC Twitter-disclosure case for $1.5m, the maximum penalty for the violation
Musk settles SEC Twitter-disclosure case for $1.5m, the maximum penalty for the violation

After four years of litigation, Elon Musk has agreed to pay a $1.5m civil penalty over his late 2022 Twitter stake disclosure. The harm to other shareholders, the SEC alleged, was $150m. Elon Musk has, after nearly four years of litigation, settled the…

Pinterest just crossed $1 billion in quarterly revenue. The bet that made it work was not social media. It was search.
Pinterest just crossed $1 billion in quarterly revenue. The bet that made it work was not social media. It was search.

Pinterest reported its first billion-dollar quarter last week. Revenue hit $1.008 billion in the first three months of 2026, up 18 per cent year on year, with monthly active users reaching 631 million for the tenth consecutive quarter of double-digit u…