XPeng starts its robotaxi line in Guangzhou, three years behind the leaders and ahead of any other Chinese automaker
XPeng starts its robotaxi line in Guangzhou, three years behind the leaders and ahead of any other Chinese automaker

The first car off the line on Monday marks the start of a slow ramp. Public pilots arrive in the second half, fully driverless by early 2027. XPeng said on Monday that the first robotaxi had rolled off its production line in Guangzhou, making the Chine…

Dust raises $40M to push enterprise AI past the single-player era
Dust raises $40M to push enterprise AI past the single-player era

The Paris- and San Francisco-based platform’s Series B is co-led by Abstract and Sequoia, with Snowflake and Datadog participating. Total funding is now north of $60m. Dust, the Paris- and San Francisco-based enterprise AI platform, has raised a $40m S…

Google I/O 2026: everything announced so far, from Gemini Intelligence to the death of the Chromebook
Google I/O 2026: everything announced so far, from Gemini Intelligence to the death of the Chromebook

Google I/O 2026 begins on Monday at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, and the company has already shown much of its hand. The two-day developer conference, which runs 19–20 May with a keynote at 10 a.m. PT, is expected to formali…

Two crypto billionaires sit behind both the Trump family token and Iran’s sanctions-evasion engine
Two crypto billionaires sit behind both the Trump family token and Iran’s sanctions-evasion engine

Reuters traced $2.3bn in Iranian exchange Nobitex’s flows since 2023 to Tron and BNB Chain, the blockchains established by World Liberty Financial’s two most prominent early backers. No party at WLF has been accused of knowing about it. A Reuters inves…

CBA names AI researcher Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist
CBA names AI researcher Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist

The Sydney-based AAAI Fellow joins the UNSW Business AI Lab to lead a team of Distinguished AI Scientists, in the latest step of Commonwealth Bank’s frontier-AI build-out. Commonwealth Bank of Australia appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams as its fir…

Anthropic is briefing the Financial Stability Board on what Mythos has been finding
Anthropic is briefing the Financial Stability Board on what Mythos has been finding

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, who chairs the global financial-risk watchdog, has invited the company to present to G20 finance ministries and central banks. The model that worried him is the model now being explained. Anthropic is preparing t…

HSBC opens a $4bn credit line for Chinese clean-tech to go global
HSBC opens a $4bn credit line for Chinese clean-tech to go global

Europe’s largest bank is putting a dedicated facility behind Chinese solar, battery, EV and data-centre exporters expanding overseas, citing demand that has accelerated alongside the Iran war. HSBC has set up a dedicated $4bn credit facility to help Ch…

Samsung union holds 21 May strike date as Monday mediation opens in Sejong
Samsung union holds 21 May strike date as Monday mediation opens in Sejong

Talks resumed in Sejong on Monday. Choi Seung-ho walked into the National Labor Relations Commission building in Sejong on Monday morning, about 110 km south of Seoul, and told reporters he would ‘participate in this second round in good faith’. The he…

Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI
Berlin’s LawX raises €7.5m to build the backoffice layer of legal AI

Motive Partners is leading the seed round, with WENVEST Capital, xdeck, and SIVentures alongside. The 2025-founded startup is targeting case management, billing, and document handling rather than the parts of legal work most AI vendors are chasing. Law…

Apple’s Siri app in iOS 27 will auto-delete your chats. It may also launch as a beta, again.
Apple’s Siri app in iOS 27 will auto-delete your chats. It may also launch as a beta, again.

Apple’s first standalone Siri app, coming in iOS 27, will include an auto-delete function for chat histories that borrows from the Messages app. Users will be able to configure the app to retain conversations for 30 days, one year, or indefinitely. The…