Apple’s Eddy Cue says the company wants to make ‘better’ and ‘more’ entertainment
Apple’s Eddy Cue says the company wants to make ‘better’ and ‘more’ entertainment

The services chief, named Cannes Lions’ Entertainment Person of the Year, set out the logic behind Apple TV: no licensed reruns, fewer titles, and a belief that the story is the only thing that matters. Eddy Cue would like you to know that Apple is not…

Swiss study finds fewer job ads for career starters as AI reshapes entry-level work
Swiss study finds fewer job ads for career starters as AI reshapes entry-level work

An analysis of 7.3 million job advertisements shows entry-level postings down sharply since the years before generative AI, with the steepest declines in roles the tools can most readily take on. The number of Swiss job advertisements aimed at career s…

GameStop’s Ryan Cohen gives up a pay package worth up to $35bn to chase eBay
GameStop’s Ryan Cohen gives up a pay package worth up to $35bn to chase eBay

Ryan Cohen has asked GameStop’s board to remove the performance-based stock award it proposed for him in January scrapping a package that analysts had valued at as much as $35bn if every milestone were hit. Cohen, who is both chairman and chief executi…

SoftBank’s Son says calling AI a bubble is ‘an insult’
SoftBank’s Son says calling AI a bubble is ‘an insult’

At SoftBank Group’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday, the founder and chief executive was asked, as he is asked at almost every public appearance now, whether the artificial intelligence boom that has driven his fortune to record high…

The algorithm has a nose now, and perfume is better for it
The algorithm has a nose now, and perfume is better for it

In a former shop on Ginnekenstraat, a pedestrian street in the Dutch city of Breda, you can answer a short questionnaire about yourself and walk out less than an hour later holding a perfume that did not exist when you arrived. The questions are not th…

Google taps its alumni network for a new AI startup incubator
Google taps its alumni network for a new AI startup incubator

Google is building an AI startup incubator that draws on its network of former employees, the so-called “Xooglers”, according to Bloomberg. The pitch is neat in its logic: as some of the company’s most capable people leave to start their own AI venture…

WiseTech shares fall as founder Richard White denies a trafficking claim
WiseTech shares fall as founder Richard White denies a trafficking claim

Reports of an Australian police inquiry into a visa-for-sex allegation knocked billions off the logistics software firm, four months after White returned to its leadership. Richard White, the billionaire founder and executive chairman of the Australian…

Prosus launches ToqanClaw, an OpenClaw-style tool builder for its 5m merchants
Prosus launches ToqanClaw, an OpenClaw-style tool builder for its 5m merchants

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 dismisses Musk’s space data centres as an AI-race bet
Masayoshi Son dismisses Musk’s space data centres as an AI-race bet

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…

Tata Electronics breach claims to expose Apple and Tesla trade secrets
Tata Electronics breach claims to expose Apple and Tesla trade secrets

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…