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Uber Pauses Most Planned European Food Delivery Launches

Uber has paused most of its planned European food delivery expansion as it continues to pursue a takeover of German rival Delivery Hero. The company had announced plans in February…

Amazon Mechanical Turk to Stop Accepting New Customers on July 30

Amazon Mechanical Turk will close to new customers on July 30, 2026, leaving existing users able to continue using the crowdsourcing platform. Amazon Web Services said it will keep investing…

Google’s 1776 Workspace Ad Draws Debate Over AI and Collaboration

Google has released a new Workspace commercial that imagines the U.S. Founding Fathers using modern productivity tools to draft the Declaration of Independence. The ad, titled “Group project, but make…

Midjourney Seeks Studios’ AI Records in Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. Case

Midjourney is asking a federal court to make Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. disclose more information about their own use of generative AI. The request is part of an ongoing…

Alibaba to Ban Claude Code at Work Over Security Concerns

Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code in office environments from July 10, according to multiple reports. The Chinese technology company has classified the AI programming tool as…

Sky’s Planned ITV Deal Could Reshape UK Commercial Television

Sky is expected to buy ITV’s television and streaming business in one of the largest British media deals in recent years. The proposed takeover would give the Comcast-owned company control…

Wimbledon’s Strawberries Travel From Kent Farm to Centre Court Kiosks

Wimbledon’s strawberries and cream are prepared through a daily supply chain that begins at a family farm in Kent and ends at kiosks across the All England Lawn Tennis Club.…

UK Employers Join Mayfield Taskforce to Cut Long-Term Sickness Absence

More than 250 major UK employers have joined Sir Charlie Mayfield’s workplace health taskforce, which aims to stop people leaving jobs because of long-term illness and help others return to…

EasyJet Reaches Preliminary £5.5 Billion Takeover Agreement With Castlelake

EasyJet has reached an agreement in principle with U.S. investment firm Castlelake on a possible cash takeover worth about £5.5 billion. The proposal values the airline at 690 pence per…

Molly Tea Ordered to Pay Louis Vuitton $1.5 Million Over Logo Dispute

Chinese tea chain Molly Tea has been ordered to pay Louis Vuitton 10.3 million yuan, or about $1.5 million, after a court found that its logo infringed the luxury brand’s…

Vietnam Intensifies Counterfeit Goods Crackdown Under U.S. Trade Pressure

Vietnam has intensified enforcement against counterfeit goods and intellectual property violations after the United States identified the country as a Priority Foreign Country for weak IP protection. Authorities launched a…

Parents Urged to Limit Children’s Photos Online as AI Abuse Imagery Rises

The Internet Watch Foundation and the UK’s National Crime Agency are urging parents to reconsider publicly sharing photographs of their children as AI tools make it easier to create realistic…

India Summons Meta After Instagram Approves Ads Promoting Child Abuse Material

The Indian government has summoned representatives of Meta after a BBC Eye investigation found paid Instagram advertisements directing users to child sexual abuse material sold through Telegram. Around 30 distinct…

Former EU Lawmaker Investigating Pegasus Was Hacked With the Spyware

Citizen Lab has confirmed that former European Parliament member Stelios Kouloglou was repeatedly hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware while serving on a committee investigating surveillance abuses. Researchers said the…

Zuckerberg Says Meta’s AI Agents Are Progressing Slower Than Expected

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told employees that the company’s AI agents are developing more slowly than executives had expected. His comments came after a major workforce restructuring that cut…

True Anomaly and Rocket Lab Complete Complex Space Force Satellite Rendezvous

True Anomaly and Rocket Lab have completed the first operational phase of Victus Haze, a U.S. Space Force mission designed to test rapid satellite launch, tracking and close-range inspection. The…

Etched Eyes Arizona Chip Production as TSMC Capacity Limits Expansion

Etched is preparing to ship its first AI inference systems this summer after TSMC manufactured the startup’s initial Sohu chips earlier this year. However, expanding production could prove difficult as…

IQM Shares Fall in Nasdaq Debut After $1.9 Billion SPAC Merger

IQM Quantum Computers began trading on Nasdaq on Thursday after completing a merger with Real Asset Acquisition Corp., valuing the Finnish quantum computing company at about $1.9 billion. Its shares…

Jersey Mike’s Cites AI Risks 22 Times in IPO Filing

Jersey Mike’s referred to artificial intelligence 22 times in its initial public offering filing, despite operating a franchise business focused on submarine sandwiches. Most references appear in risk disclosures covering…

Google and Amazon Emissions Rise as AI Data Center Expansion Accelerates

Google and Amazon reported higher carbon emissions for 2025 as both companies expanded the data centers, chips and supporting infrastructure required for artificial intelligence. Google’s supply chain emissions increased 25%…