EA just built a full advertising platform inside its games, and 120 million players are the audience
EA just built a full advertising platform inside its games, and 120 million players are the audience

Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a platform that lets brands buy dynamic, real-time ad placements inside the company’s sports games. The system delivers ads through stadium signage, digital ad boards, scoreboards, and broadcast-style overla…

Who decides who gets to use a piece of software?
Who decides who gets to use a piece of software?

The letter arrived at 5:21pm Eastern Time on a Friday, which is the hour at which official Washington usually stops returning calls and the news cycle goes slack for the weekend. It came from the Commerce Department, ran to a few paragraphs, and did so…

Tesla gave European regulators misleading self-driving safety data
Tesla gave European regulators misleading self-driving safety data

Tesla put self-published safety statistics in front of regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety researchers say amount to misleading marketing, according to a Reuters review of correspondence obtained through public-reco…

Google’s Sundar Pichai chose optimism over AI at Stanford. Graduates walked out anyway
Google’s Sundar Pichai chose optimism over AI at Stanford. Graduates walked out anyway

The man who runs one of the world’s largest artificial-intelligence companies stood up to address Stanford’s graduating class and, for the most part, declined to talk about artificial intelligence. Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google and Alpha…

France hosts the G7 with an AI pitch built on other people’s billions
France hosts the G7 with an AI pitch built on other people’s billions

France took over the G7 this week with Emmanuel Macron pressing artificial intelligence to the front of the agenda and, with it, a good deal of his own standing. The summit runs from 15 to 17 June, and the pitch is straightforward: position France as E…

US order to block foreign access to Anthropic’s top models marks a reversal
US order to block foreign access to Anthropic’s top models marks a reversal

The US government has ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, and rather than try to enforce a nationality rule selectively across a shared cloud service, the company switched them off for everyone. Anthropic dis…

UK under-16s social media rules to reach into gaming and AI chatbots
UK under-16s social media rules to reach into gaming and AI chatbots

Britain is expected to set out restrictions on how children under 16 use social media, in a package that could ban access to the main platforms and curb features judged too addictive for young users, according to reporting on the government’s plans. Pr…

SpaceX could hit $1tn a year by 2030, Musk claims after record IPO
SpaceX could hit $1tn a year by 2030, Musk claims after record IPO

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 …

Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome
Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome

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 …

The scam economy is now bigger than Denmark’s GDP, and it is accelerating
The scam economy is now bigger than Denmark’s GDP, and it is accelerating

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 Allianc…