Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15m, alleging her photo has been selling its TVs without permission since 2025
Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15m, alleging her photo has been selling its TVs without permission since 2025

The complaint says a backstage shot from the 2024 Austin City Limits Festival ended up on Crystal UHD packaging in retail and online channels worldwide, and that Samsung ignored her cease-and-desist requests. Dua Lipa filed a $15 million federal lawsui…

Anthropic says Claude learned to blackmail by reading stories about evil AI
Anthropic says Claude learned to blackmail by reading stories about evil AI

The company has traced its model’s most uncomfortable behaviour to the corpus of science fiction it was trained on. The fix it describes is unsettling in a different way: teaching the model the reasons behind being good, not just the rules. In a fictio…

Microsoft-G42 Kenya data centre stalls over government offtake demands
Microsoft-G42 Kenya data centre stalls over government offtake demands

The company asked the Kenyan government for a guaranteed annual capacity offtake. The government did not commit at the level Microsoft requested. Talks have broken down for now; the project is not formally cancelled. A $1bn Microsoft data-centre projec…

SoftBank to manufacture large-scale batteries for AI data centres at former Sharp plant
SoftBank to manufacture large-scale batteries for AI data centres at former Sharp plant

Target output is one gigawatt-hour a year. Partners are South Korea’s Cosmos Lab and DeltaX. Production opens for the fiscal year starting next April, with zinc-halide chemistry following in 2027. SoftBank Group’s mobile-services subsidiary will begin …

NVIDIA tops $40bn in AI equity bets in 2026, anchored by $30bn OpenAI investment
NVIDIA tops $40bn in AI equity bets in 2026, anchored by $30bn OpenAI investment

$30bn went to OpenAI; the rest is spread across CoreWeave, IREN, Corning, Nebius, and roughly two dozen private rounds. The pattern is closer to vertical integration than to venture investing, and is starting to draw the inevitable circular-deal questi…

Trump Media reports $405.9m Q1 loss, almost entirely from crypto markdowns
Trump Media reports $405.9m Q1 loss, almost entirely from crypto markdowns

Trump Media & Technology Group reported a $405.9 million net loss for the first quarter of 2026, the company said on Friday, almost all of it driven by unrealised losses on the cryptocurrency holdings it has spent the past nine months building. Ope…

Quantinuum filed for an IPO worth 20 billion dollars. It has 31 million in revenue and a quantum computer that does not exist yet.
Quantinuum filed for an IPO worth 20 billion dollars. It has 31 million in revenue and a quantum computer that does not exist yet.

  Quantinuum filed for a US initial public offering on Thursday that could value the company at more than 20 billion dollars. In the year ended 31 December 2025, Quantinuum reported revenue of 30.9 million dollars and a net loss of 192.6 million dollar…

Akamai’s stock had its best day in 22 years. It took one AI contract.
Akamai’s stock had its best day in 22 years. It took one AI contract.

  Akamai Technologies disclosed a 1.8 billion dollar, seven-year cloud infrastructure deal with a customer it described only as “a leading frontier model provider.” Bloomberg identified the customer as Anthropic. The stock rose 27 per cent in a single …

Google built a 99 dollar AI health coach. Whoop responded with real doctors.
Google built a 99 dollar AI health coach. Whoop responded with real doctors.

  Google launched a 99 dollar screenless fitness tracker and a 9.99 dollar per month AI health coach powered by Gemini. One day later, Whoop announced that it would add on-demand video consultations with licensed clinicians to its app. Google is bettin…

The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed. Court documents show the stake is now worth two billion.
The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed. Court documents show the stake is now worth two billion.

  The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed, before Microsoft committed billions, and before the company was worth more than some countries. Court documents from the Musk v. Altman trial revealed this week …