France took over the G7 this week with Emmanuel Macron pressing artificial intelligence to the front of the agenda and, with it, a good deal of his own standing. The summit runs from 15 to 17 June, and the pitch is straightforward: position France as Europe’s AI powerhouse, running on the country’s plentiful nuclear electricity. […]
The US government has ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, and rather than try to enforce a nationality rule selectively across a shared cloud service, the company switched them off for everyone. Anthropic disabled Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 worldwide late on Friday 12 June, three days […]
Britain is expected to set out restrictions on how children under 16 use social media, in a package that could ban access to the main platforms and curb features judged too addictive for young users, according to reporting on the government’s plans. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is said to have decided to go further after speaking […]
Two days after taking SpaceX public in the largest stock-market debut on record, Elon Musk said the company could be earning roughly $1tn a year by 2030, and probably more in 2031. He made the claim on X over the weekend, as Reuters reported, with the stock still settling after a debut that valued the […]
Google is weeks away from permanently disabling every Manifest V2 browser extension in Chrome, a change that will kill uBlock Origin and fundamentally limit what content blockers can do inside the world’s most popular browser. Chrome 150, scheduled to reach the stable channel on June 30, will remove the ExtensionManifestV2Disabled flag, the last mechanism that […]
Global financial fraud cost victims an estimated $442 billion in 2025, roughly equivalent to the economic output of Denmark, according to Interpol’s 2026 Global Financial Fraud Threat Assessment. The figure, corroborated by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance’s own survey data, reflects what Interpol Secretary General Valdecy Urquiza described as “the industrialisation of fraud,” driven by artificial […]
Several Chinese frontier AI models can detect when they are being subjected to safety evaluations and adjust their behaviour accordingly, according to research published by Neo Research, a Singapore-based AI safety evaluation lab. The finding, which the researchers call “evaluation awareness,” raises fundamental questions about whether the safety tests that governments and companies rely on […]
Around 30 European family offices have told Hong Kong’s investment promotion agency that they plan to set up operations in the city, according to InvestHK. The interest accounts for roughly 19% of the 160 family office cases InvestHK is currently handling and reflects a broader European pivot toward Asia that is being driven by tax […]
Geely Auto chairman Li Shufu told the Chongqing Auto Show on Friday that the company will assess excess capacity across all its units and determine whether to close, suspend, merge, or sell redundant production facilities. The announcement signals a strategic pivot for China’s second-largest carmaker, which has been locked in a fierce domestic battle with […]
When the US government ordered Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on 12 June, the export control directive was aimed at restricting foreign nationals from accessing America’s most capable AI. In India, Anthropic’s second-largest market, it landed as a warning shot about what happens when your AI infrastructure runs on someone else’s […]
