Platforms, silicon, and the governance gap.
An MMA card on the South Lawn was paid for, in part, with a Trump family stablecoin — and the FBI says it broke up a drone attack aimed at the same event hours before it began.
A televised interview with an Iranian F-5 pilot who says he struck the US Buehring base in Kuwait on 1 March is being read as both a propaganda…
Index Ventures turned $3.5M of seed capital in Wiz into $875M as Google agreed to pay $32B. The same week, Perplexity is negotiating a round at $18B.…
A Hezbollah double-drone strike near the Lebanese border wounded five Israeli soldiers on 17 June 2026, one seriously, before the IDF said it…
An Israeli military spokesperson said one soldier was seriously injured and four others moderately or lightly hurt in a Hezbollah drone attack in…
Iran's parliament speaker says the chokepoint will charge transit fees and that the wartime status quo is gone for good — a structural shift in how…
G7 finance ministers have agreed to cap Chinese supply of rare earths and other critical minerals at 60% and to launch a coordination platform — the…
Europe's top court has cleared France to enforce age checks on adult sites, the same week Paris hosts the G7 and VivaTech — and US officials are…
Ukraine's defence minister tells a journalist it will be "f***ing fun" in Crimea and warns the peninsula will be cut off — a rhetorical escalation…
May retail sales fell for the first time in over three years. Beijing's instinct is to slow the AI rollout to protect employment — a policy choice…
Russian and Belarusian-aligned channels report a Ukrainian drone strike on a bus carrying a Belarusian children's football team in the Bryansk region…
Man Group says the AI private-credit boom has the makings of a 'violent' correction. The more interesting question is who is on the other side of the…
The AI lab joined a $915m corporate carbon-removal coalition hours before its employees accused the Trump administration of unfair targeting — and…
YouTube is publicly resisting inclusion in the UK government’s planned social-media ban for under-16s, telling ministers that the platform’s…
Kyiv's WarTranslated channel has shown off a 1,000 kg explosive payload unmanned underwater vehicle, signalling a new phase in the Black Sea contest…
Fighters were reportedly paid in a Trump family stablecoin for their appearance at a White House UFC event, hours after the FBI said it had disrupted…
A public call for restraint from Washington lands the same day Reuters reports an Israeli drone strike killed at least four people in southern…
SpaceX's first full week of share trading has added roughly $1T in mark-to-market value, briefly pushing the private rocket-and-Starlink operator…
Two days after a blockbuster IPO, SpaceX says it will buy the parent of AI code editor Cursor for $60 billion in stock — and the same buyer is also…
A $60bn all-stock deal announced four days after SpaceX's blockbuster listing folds the AI coding toolmaker into Musk's xAI-adjacent stack, and…
A single trading session added $164.8bn to Musk's paper fortune, pushed SpaceX past Amazon, and saw his personal wealth eclipse Bitcoin's market…
SpaceX's valuation jumped to roughly $2.7 trillion within days of a secondary share sale, vaulting it past Amazon and underscoring how tightly…
A private rocket company briefly overtook Big Tech's third pillar on the cap table on the same morning a retail-broker pioneer told roughly 1,000…
For the first time, more people get their news from social networks and video platforms than from traditional outlets. The Reuters Institute's annual…
SpaceX's first day of U.S. options trading set a single-session volume record and pushed the private-rocket maker's implied valuation toward $3…
Three Telegram channels with ties to Russian military reporting say a BBC investigation into their ecosystem has been 'promoted' by the very British…
A cross-vertical software rout on 4 June 2026 crystallised a thesis Ben Thompson has been sharpening for months: the next decade of software is a…
A $3.6bn Salesforce acquisition, a string of 911 outages, and a UK push to ban under-18s from YouTube overnight landed within hours of each other —…
Two U.K.-facing policy signals landed within hours of each other: a $3.6 billion Salesforce bet on conversational AI, and a proposal that could push…
Tenev told staff the brokerage had "never been stronger" while eliminating roughly a tenth of the workforce. The conspicuous silence on artificial…
The Israeli premier's claim that Iran sought an Israeli pullback from the Lebanon frontier lands as IDF armour advances beyond the demarcation line…
Three Israeli airstrikes on the main square of Mayfadoun killed at least four people on 16 June 2026, reviving the routine cross-border exchange that…
Two separate Israeli drone strikes struck the towns of Mifdoun and Shoukine in south Lebanon on 16 June 2026, according to regional and Iranian state…
Within hours of a US-Iran deal that promised to wind down the wider war, Israeli drones and warplanes hit Nabitieh district and the town of Meifidoun…