Hidden among the landmarks of General Motors’ Warren Tech Center outside Detroit is a pair of nondescript off-white buildings that house the company’s most consequential investment in years. The new Battery Cell Development Centre, spanning 500,000 square feet, is the lynchpin of GM’s plan to bring a new class of cheaper EV batteries to market a […]

SpaceX has signed its second massive compute deal in a month, this time with Google. Under the terms disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to approximately 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, CPUs, memory, and related components. At that rate, the contract is […]

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Russia intends to switch on a commercial version of its homegrown answer to Starlink next year, according to people familiar with the programme cited by Reuters, the latest milestone in a project that has been promising to arrive for most of a decade. The constellation is called Rassvet, the operator is a private aerospace firm […]

Brian Chesky has spent years as an AI kingmaker. He met Sam Altman through Y Combinator in 2006, advised him on managing OpenAI’s hypergrowth, and helped broker Altman’s return to power after the board fired him in November 2023. He was reportedly considered for a seat on OpenAI’s board. Now he is entering competition with his […]

Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licences six months after enabling them. One company reportedly ran up a $500 million Claude bill in a single month after forgetting to set usage limits. A Priceline employee told TechCrunch that a routine Cursor contract renewal came back four to five times […]

The European Commission has appointed Jim Hagemann Snabe, chairman of Siemens’ supervisory board, as its special envoy for industrial artificial intelligence. He will advise Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and tech sovereignty chief Henna Virkkunen on how to accelerate AI adoption across European industry. The backlash was immediate. Snabe’s appointment lands weeks after Siemens […]

The most oversubscribed sporting event in history is also the most phished. With more than 150 million ticket requests in the first 15 days and just six million seats across 16 cities in the US, Canada, and Mexico, the 2026 FIFA World Cup has created exactly the conditions that fraud thrives on: scarcity, urgency, and money moving […]

Six weeks ago, AirTrunk did not operate in India. Now it wants to spend $30 billion there. The Blackstone-backed hyperscale data centre operator announced on Thursday that it plans to invest more than INR 3,000 billion ($30 billion) in India by 2030, building over 5 gigawatts of digital infrastructure capacity across multiple states and union […]

For someone who helped ship ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex, Mira Murati has been remarkably quiet. On Thursday, she broke the silence. Sitting down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in San Francisco, the CEO of Thinking Machines Lab gave her first major media appearance in roughly 18 months, a carefully managed re-entry into a conversation that has moved at […]