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Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features

Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accomp

Rivian lays off hundreds of workers one week after launching R2 deliveries as it chases its first profit

Sixty percent of U.S. consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds

CyCognito pushes AI pentesting beyond vulnerability scans as enterprise attack surfaces evolve

Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple

African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as investor and p

Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop has a trackpad that rumbles like a game controller

Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop and Surface Pro feature a redesigned trackpad with haptic feedback that vibrates when you interact

Mobileye puts self-driving tech in 230 million cars. Now it wants to run its own robotaxis.

The team that built Microsoft’s Security Copilot just raised $100M to stop attacks before they happen

This two-year-old startup already programs Blue Origin’s rockets. It just raised $20M.

More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.

This Swedish startup doesn’t want to give patent lawyers AI tools. It wants to replace them.

16 Jun 2026 · Sweden

Anthropic spent six months warning the world about AI. Then the government pulled its models.

Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI

SpaceX’s biggest-ever IPO just grew to $85.7 billion raised

Social media ban - bold and blunt, but no silver bullet

AT&S pours up to €2bn into Malaysia and China to ride the AI chip boom

15 Jun 2026 · Austria

Google’s Sundar Pichai chose optimism over AI at Stanford. Graduates walked out anyway

The freelancer admin tax is real. Here’s how to cut it in half (and save 70% on FreshBooks while you’re at it)

UK under-16s social media rules to reach into gaming and AI chatbots

15 Jun 2026 · UK

ByteDance is in talks to buy AI chips from China’s Iluvatar CoreX

Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome

The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg

Startup CEO Charlie Javice is reportedly angling for a Trump pardon

Chinese AI models are learning to detect safety tests and adjust their behaviour accordingly