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Stanford Graduates Walk Out During Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech

Around 200 Stanford University graduates reportedly walked out as Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai delivered the university’s commencement address on Sunday. Students also booed and displayed signs criticizing Google’s…

Meta Adds AI Mode Search and New Editing Tools to Facebook

Meta is rolling out new AI features on Facebook that change how users search for information and edit photos and videos. The main addition is AI Mode, which uses Meta…

SpaceX IPO Raises $85.7 Billion After Underwriters Buy Additional Shares

SpaceX has increased the amount raised through its initial public offering to $85.7 billion after the offering’s underwriters exercised their option to buy the maximum number of additional shares. The…

Salesforce to Acquire Fin for $3.6 Billion to Strengthen Agentforce

Salesforce has agreed to acquire AI customer service company Fin for approximately $3.6 billion, bringing Fin’s customer support agent technology and development team into its Agentforce business. The companies expect…

Sarvam Raises $234 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation

Indian artificial intelligence company Sarvam has raised $234 million in the first close of a planned $300 million Series B round, valuing the Bengaluru-based company at $1.5 billion. The funding…

Loft Orbital Satellite Uses AI To Identify Targets Without Ground Analysis

An Earth observation satellite has used a vision-language model to identify requested features in imagery without relying on analysts on the ground, marking the first reported use of this type…

Fox to Acquire Roku in $22 Billion Cash-and-Stock Deal

Fox Corporation has agreed to acquire streaming company Roku in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at about $22 billion. The deal combines Fox’s news, sports, and streaming operations with Roku’s connected…

Orbio Raises $21 Million To Expand AI Agents For Frontline Workforce Management

Orbio has raised $21 million in Series A funding to expand its AI agents for recruiting, onboarding, and managing frontline employees. Dawn Capital led the round, bringing the enterprise startup’s…

Convicted Frank Founder Charlie Javice Reportedly Seeks Trump Pardon

Charlie Javice, the convicted founder of financial aid startup Frank, is reportedly seeking a presidential pardon while appealing her conviction for defrauding JPMorgan Chase in a $175 million acquisition. People…

KPMG Withdraws Agentic AI Report After Organizations Dispute Its Claims

KPMG has withdrawn a report about agentic AI after several organizations said descriptions of their AI use were false or misleading. Research group GPTZero said many of the report’s citations…

FBI Uses Replica Town To Train Investigators For Real-World Cyberattacks

The FBI has revealed a 22,000-square-foot replica town in Huntsville, Alabama, where investigators train to respond to cyberattacks involving homes, businesses, hospitals, vehicles, and critical infrastructure. Known as the Kinetic…

England Targets 60% Of Children Walking Or Cycling To School By 2035

The UK government wants at least 60% of children aged five to 16 in England to usually walk or cycle to school by 2035, supported by £4.5 billion in projected…

Aurigny CEO Questions Break-Even Target After Airline Records £6.3 Million Loss

Aurigny chief executive Nico Bezuidenhout has questioned whether Guernsey’s publicly owned airline should still be required to break even when about 70% of its operations now involve essential lifeline services.…

UK Watchdog Investigates Ryanair Fees For Parents Sitting With Children

The UK’s competition watchdog is investigating whether Ryanair unfairly charges parents to sit beside their children on flights. The Competition and Markets Authority said the airline’s mandatory family seat typically…

India’s Wild Agave Creates New Income And Production Opportunities

Wild agave growing across India’s Deccan Plateau is becoming a source of income for farmers and a raw material for the country’s small but growing agave-based drinks industry. Masapalli Venkatesh…

Spain Tourism Heads For Another Record As Housing Tensions Grow

Spain could receive 100 million international tourists in 2026 as geopolitical instability redirects some travellers from the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. The expected growth is also adding pressure to…

How The Flight Created An Interactive Bond Score For 007 First Light

The Flight spent more than two years composing the score for 007 First Light, adapting the familiar sound of James Bond to an interactive game in which the music changes…

World Cup Advertisers Turn Commercials Into Star-Studded Mini-Movies

Nike and other major brands are releasing lengthy, celebrity-filled campaigns around the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup, with commercials increasingly presented as entertainment rather than conventional product advertising. Nike’s six-minute…

Anthropic Suspends Fable 5 And Mythos 5 After U.S. Security Order

Anthropic has suspended access to two of its most advanced AI models after the U.S. government ordered the company to prevent foreign nationals from using them over national security concerns.…

SpaceX IPO Makes Elon Musk The World’s First Trillionaire

Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX completed a record stock market debut, lifting the value of his large ownership stake in the rocket and satellite company. Musk’s…