Summary: US petrol prices passed $4/gallon for the first time in four years (+30% YoY), driven by the Iran conflict and Strait of Hormuz disruption. Tesla delivered 358,023 vehicles in Q1 2026, up 6% against a weak comparison quarter but missing estima…
Summary: The White House OSTP released a policy memo accusing China of “industrial-scale” distillation of US AI models, committing to share intelligence with US AI companies and explore accountability measures. OpenAI accused DeepSeek of distilling its…
Summary: Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement to approximately 7% of its US workforce (~8,750 of 125,000 employees) in the first such programme in its 51-year history, using a “Rule of 70” formula (age + years of service). The offer, disclosed by…
The model, codenamed “Spud,” is designed to complete complex multi-step tasks with minimal human direction. It sets new benchmarks in agentic coding, computer use, and knowledge work, while matching GPT-5.4’s per-token latency. API access is delayed pe…
Summary: Genetic, medical, and lifestyle data from all 500,000 UK Biobank volunteers was listed for sale on Alibaba after three Chinese research institutions with legitimate access violated their data-sharing agreements. The data was de-identified but …
The European Commission is preparing to tell Google exactly how it must open Android to rival AI assistants, escalating a regulatory confrontation that will determine whether artificial intelligence becomes the next great platform lock-in or the first …
Summary: The Pentagon has narrowed its Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) programme from eight companies to three, advancing microreactor deployment at Buckley Space Force Base (Colorado) and Malmstrom Air Force Base (Montana) by 2030. The…
The new model reasons about composition, searches the web for context, generates up to eight coherent images from one prompt, and renders text in non-Latin scripts with near-flawless accuracy. It also took the number one spot on the Image Arena leaderb…
Secondary share trading platforms are pricing Anthropic at approximately $1 trillion, just three months after its primary fundraising round valued it at $380 billion. OpenAI is trading at $880 billion on the same platforms, a meaningful reversal of the…
The $25B programme has no expiration date and sits on top of a December 2024 authorisation that still had $6.8B remaining. Netflix’s board approved it on 22 April. Shares rose 1.5% in premarket trading on the news, after falling as much as 10.8% follow…