The FBI built a fake town to train agents for cyberattacks. It has a hospital, a power company, and 200 servers.
The FBI built a fake town to train agents for cyberattacks. It has a hospital, a power company, and 200 servers.

The FBI has revealed a 22,000 square-foot replica town on its Huntsville, Alabama, campus built to train law enforcement in simulating and investigating real-world cyberattacks. The Kinetic Cyber Range opened in February 2025 and has trained more than …

Andrew Yang says the next startup wave isn’t building AI. It’s lowering the cost of living.
Andrew Yang says the next startup wave isn’t building AI. It’s lowering the cost of living.

Andrew Yang thinks the biggest startup opportunity of the next decade is not building AI. It is lowering the cost of living for the people AI is about to displace. In a TechCrunch interview, the former presidential candidate and UBI advocate laid out a…

DOJ clears Paramount’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without conditions
DOJ clears Paramount’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without conditions

The US Justice Department has cleared Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring any changes to the deal. The agency said the merger “is not likely to harm competition or American consumers” after an eight-mo…

OpenAI is under investigation by 42 state attorneys general, days after filing for its IPO
OpenAI is under investigation by 42 state attorneys general, days after filing for its IPO

A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. New York’s attorney general served the company with a subpoena on Friday demanding documents on advertisin…

US government orders Anthropic to kill Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in unprecedented AI model recall
US government orders Anthropic to kill Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in unprecedented AI model recall

The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, in what appears to be the first time Washington has forced a commercial AI product offline. The directive, which Anthropic says it receiv…

80 Texas residents are suing SpaceX, saying rocket launches are literally destroying their homes
80 Texas residents are suing SpaceX, saying rocket launches are literally destroying their homes

Eighty residents of towns near SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company’s constant rocket launches are physically destroying their homes. The lawsuit accuses SpaceX of negligence, gross negli…

India’s Avataar AI launches a video model that costs $0.005 per second, 27x cheaper than rivals
India’s Avataar AI launches a video model that costs $0.005 per second, 27x cheaper than rivals

Bangalore-based Avataar AI has launched Varya, one of India’s first homegrown video AI models. It generates video at roughly $0.005 per second, or 0.48 rupees. Founder Sravanth Aluru, a former Deutsche Bank investment banker and Microsoft and IIT Mumba…

SpaceX rented Colossus 1 to Anthropic because it couldn’t make the data centre work for Grok
SpaceX rented Colossus 1 to Anthropic because it couldn’t make the data centre work for Grok

SpaceX rented its Colossus 1 data centre to Anthropic not because it had surplus capacity, but because it could not make the facility work for its own AI models. Bloomberg reported on Friday that SpaceX encountered latency issues when trying to connect…

London Tech Week 2026: the AI billions, the US build-out, and a royal first
London Tech Week 2026: the AI billions, the US build-out, and a royal first

London Tech Week wrapped its 12th edition this week, after three days of main-stage programming at Olympia from 8 to 10 June, with fringe events running across the city through Friday. The festival drew more than 30,000 people from over 130 countries, …

Spotify is adding editor-hosted videos to New Music Friday so you can meet the people behind the playlist
Spotify is adding editor-hosted videos to New Music Friday so you can meet the people behind the playlist

Spotify is adding short-form videos from its editorial team to New Music Friday, its flagship weekly playlist for new releases. The videos feature Spotify’s curators sharing their picks, spotlighting rising artists, and explaining the stories behind so…