Google Finance exits beta with a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, and AI-powered scheduled briefings
Google Finance exits beta with a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, and AI-powered scheduled briefings

Google Finance is exiting beta with a wave of new features, including a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, an AI-powered research tool, and scheduled market briefings. The updates mark the broadest expansion of the platform since Google began r…

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to automate the networking that slows down GPU clouds
Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to automate the networking that slows down GPU clouds

Netris, a Santa Clara startup that automates the networking layer inside GPU data centres, has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The round follows what the company says is 800 percent annual recurring revenue growth and…

Trump administration bars Polestar from selling new EVs in the US under Connected Vehicle Rule
Trump administration bars Polestar from selling new EVs in the US under Connected Vehicle Rule

The Trump administration has barred Polestar from selling new electric vehicles in the United States, denying the Geely-owned automaker authorization under the Connected Vehicle Rule. The decision, first reported by TechCrunch, means Polestar will not …

Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the AI video enhancer
Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the AI video enhancer

Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the Emmy-winning maker of AI image and video enhancement tools. The deal hands Adobe upscaling, restoration and on-device AI as creators blend captured and generated footage. Adobe has agreed to buy Topaz Labs, an AI company…

Toyota is closing in on GM as America’s top-selling automaker as hybrids surge and EVs falter
Toyota is closing in on GM as America’s top-selling automaker as hybrids surge and EVs falter

Toyota is gaining on General Motors in the race for America’s sales crown, and the gap is now the narrowest it has been in half a decade. A new forecast from Cox Automotive, released on Wednesday, projects Toyota will sell approximately 1,250,000 vehic…

The EU signs up to Pax Silica, the US-led chip pact France called colonisation
The EU signs up to Pax Silica, the US-led chip pact France called colonisation

Brussels is joining a Washington-led effort to secure AI chip supply chains, a fortnight after unveiling a tech-sovereignty agenda built on the opposite instinct. The European Union is set to join Pax Silica, the US-led initiative to coordinate AI chip…

Solo-maxxing: How tech taught Gen Z to monetise being alone
Solo-maxxing: How tech taught Gen Z to monetise being alone

We can no longer pretend that the bridge between generations is invisible, because it stands before us, growing wider every day, harder to cross and harder even to name. Nor can we deny that technology has had its hand in this rupture, since it has not…

Tesla sued over fatal Texas crash the driver says happened on Autopilot
Tesla sued over fatal Texas crash the driver says happened on Autopilot

A wrongful-death suit filed days after a Model 3 ploughed into a Katy home leans on the same argument that produced last year’s $243m Florida verdict. The family of a 76-year-old woman killed when a Tesla crashed through the wall of her home near Houst…

Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness
Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness

The actor and MEP Eva Maydell revealed RSL Media’s Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a tool that lets anyone set the terms on which AI can use their name, face and voice. The context is disarmingly simple: your face, your voice, your n…

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude

Anthropic has accused Alibaba of waging the largest distillation campaign yet against a US AI company, telling senators and White House officials that operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude’s …