The Amsterdam-listed group is putting conversational app-building in front of restaurants and shopkeepers, the users it says AI has so far left behind. Prosus has launched ToqanClaw, a platform that lets people build apps, dashboards, and automations b…
Masayoshi Son does not think the future of artificial intelligence is in orbit. The SoftBank Group founder told shareholders on 23 June 2026 that there is little merit in building data centres in space, the idea Elon Musk has been championing, and pred…
A ransomware group says it lifted more than 630 gigabytes from the Indian manufacturer, including purported design files belonging to two of its biggest customers. The authenticity of those files is unconfirmed. India’s Tata Electronics has confirmed t…
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a joint warning that the next generation of artificial intelligence is poised to supercharge offensive hacking, and that the window to prepare for it is closing fast. In a coordinated statement, the agenci…
IBM has signed up to OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, a tie-up the company says will put frontier AI models to work inside corporate security operations. The partnership comes with a concrete first product: a new application-security service th…
Oracle ended its 2026 fiscal year with about 21,000 fewer employees than it started with, a reduction of roughly 13% that ranks among the deepest in the company’s history. The figure, disclosed in the company’s annual filing, puts a number on a process…
SpaceX shares looked poised to fall again as US markets reopened after the long weekend, extending a slide that has already erased much of the euphoria from the largest stock-market debut in history. The stock closed last week around $185, down roughly…
When the Bank of England first sketched out how it would regulate stablecoins, the industry read the draft and recoiled. Caps on how much any one person could hold, conservative rules on what the coins could be backed by: critics said the regime would …
A semiconductor boom is a fine problem for a country to have, until you start asking where the money goes. That is roughly the question South Korea’s top economic policymaker put to the public this week. Kim Yong-beom, who heads policy planning in the …
WeChat is the rare app that already does almost everything. Chinese users message, pay, book, shop, and summon a taxi without ever leaving it, which is exactly what makes Tencent’s next move interesting: rather than build a separate chatbot and fight f…