IMF chief warns advanced AI models like Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system”
IMF chief warns advanced AI models like Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system”

The head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that advanced AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system” if they fall into the wrong hands. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva made the comment…

From AI deals to streaming fraud, the music industry is wrestling with four existential battles at once
From AI deals to streaming fraud, the music industry is wrestling with four existential battles at once

The music industry descended on New York this week for Indie Week and a flurry of parallel gatherings. The conversations kept circling back to the same handful of anxieties: generative AI, streaming fraud, underpaid songwriters, and the organisations m…

SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, but your retirement fund is picking up the tab
SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, but your retirement fund is picking up the tab

Elon Musk is now worth more than $1 trillion. The SpaceX IPO, which priced 555.6 million shares at $135 each on 12 June, valued the company at roughly $1.77 trillion and pushed Musk past a threshold no individual has ever crossed. His SpaceX stake alon…

Starlink is SpaceX’s cash machine, but the maths is getting harder
Starlink is SpaceX’s cash machine, but the maths is getting harder

SpaceX’s satellite internet service had 10.3 million subscribers at the end of the first quarter of 2026, more than double the 4.4 million it reported a year earlier. That growth rate is extraordinary by any standard in telecommunications, let alone fo…

UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups
UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups

Britain’s Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has pledged to strengthen efforts to channel institutional investment into UK tech companies. Speaking to Bloomberg TV during London Tech Week, Kendall said the government would pursue legal reforms to how pen…

Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.
Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.

The chief executives of the three most powerful artificial intelligence companies on Earth are about to sit in the same room as the leaders of the world’s seven largest advanced economies. OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Google DeepM…

Infineon is opening a €5 billion chip factory in Dresden. It is the EU Chips Act’s first major success.
Infineon is opening a €5 billion chip factory in Dresden. It is the EU Chips Act’s first major success.

Infineon Technologies is preparing to open its largest single investment, a €5 billion semiconductor factory on its Dresden campus, on 2 July. The Smart Power Fab, which received approximately €1 billion in EU Chips Act subsidies, will produce power se…

The world’s top-selling robot vacuum maker is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO. It also wants to build a hypercar.
The world’s top-selling robot vacuum maker is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO. It also wants to build a hypercar.

Dreame Technology, a Chinese maker of robotic vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, and pool cleaners, is considering a Hong Kong initial public offering as soon as next year, according to Bloomberg. The company is working with advisers and could raise several…

SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Japanese retail investors got $2.2 billion of it.
SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Japanese retail investors got $2.2 billion of it.

SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker SPCX after raising $75 billion in the largest initial public offering ever completed. The previous record holder, Saudi Aramco’s 2019 listing, raised $29.4 billion, making SpaceX’s offering roughly…

Anthropic is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.
Anthropic is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.

Anthropic is donating $150 million to place 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofit organisations across the United States. The programme, called Claude Corps, will pay early-career workers $85,000 plus benefits for a year-long placement where they help nonp…