Former IBM cybersecurity exec accuses company of covering up years of Chinese hacking
Former IBM cybersecurity exec accuses company of covering up years of Chinese hacking

A former IBM cybersecurity executive has accused the company of concealing multiple data breaches by Chinese state-linked hackers. William Barlow served as IBM’s vice president of threat intelligence until August 2019. In a whistleblower lawsuit unseal…

Trump wants the American public to own a piece of OpenAI. Nobody knows how that would work.
Trump wants the American public to own a piece of OpenAI. Nobody knows how that would work.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will likely meet with AI companies at the White House next week to discuss what he called a federal government “partnership” that would let the American public profit from the industry’s success. “There a…

GM’s $900 million bet on a battery chemistry no one has commercialised could slash EV prices by 2028
GM’s $900 million bet on a battery chemistry no one has commercialised could slash EV prices by 2028

Hidden among the landmarks of General Motors’ Warren Tech Center outside Detroit is a pair of nondescript off-white buildings that house the company’s most consequential investment in years. The new Battery Cell Development Centre, spanning 500,000 squ…

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute as Musk turns a data centre built for Grok into a cash machine
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute as Musk turns a data centre built for Grok into a cash machine

SpaceX has signed its second massive compute deal in a month, this time with Google. Under the terms disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to approximate…

Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.
Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.

Brian Chesky has spent years as an AI kingmaker. He met Sam Altman through Y Combinator in 2006, advised him on managing OpenAI’s hypergrowth, and helped broker Altman’s return to power after the board fired him in November 2023. He was reportedly cons…

Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.
Token prices fell 98%. Enterprise AI bills tripled. Now the industry wants a standards body to explain why.

Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licences six months after enabling them. One company reportedly ran up a $500 million Claude bill in a single month after forgetting to set usage…

Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act
Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act

The European Commission has appointed Jim Hagemann Snabe, chairman of Siemens’ supervisory board, as its special envoy for industrial artificial intelligence. He will advise Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and tech sovereignty chief Henna Vir…

FIFA World Cup 2026 is a cybercriminal’s dream, and the scams are already live
FIFA World Cup 2026 is a cybercriminal’s dream, and the scams are already live

The most oversubscribed sporting event in history is also the most phished. With more than 150 million ticket requests in the first 15 days and just six million seats across 16 cities in the US, Canada, and Mexico, the 2026 FIFA World Cup has created e…

Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site
Blackstone-backed AirTrunk plans $30bn India data centre push as the country becomes AI’s next construction site

Six weeks ago, AirTrunk did not operate in India. Now it wants to spend $30 billion there. The Blackstone-backed hyperscale data centre operator announced on Thursday that it plans to invest more than INR 3,000 billion ($30 billion) in India by 2030, b…

Japan risks becoming an ‘AI colony’, its digital minister warns
Japan risks becoming an ‘AI colony’, its digital minister warns

The phrase Japan’s digital minister chose was deliberately stark. Hisashi Matsumoto warned that the country risks becoming an “AI colony” if it fails to keep pace with the technology, using the term to defend a government-backed bill that would amend J…