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Six months ago, Anthropic was the darling of America’s AI boom. It led on the models and was loudest on the ethics. This summer, it finds itself alone. The Claude maker is now the odd one out in nearly every big AI policy fight, Axios reported. It is the most valuable startup in the world, This […]

Shein wanted its Hong Kong listing to be about growth. Instead, the filing meant to sell that story revealed a US regulator is investigating the company, and Shein will not say why. The disclosure sits in the draft prospectus for Shein’s planned IPO, Reuters reported. Its US business, the filing […]

The Trump administration spent Tuesday clearing environmental law out of the way of the tech boom. It did so twice, on two fronts, with the same justification. The first move exempts data centres from the rules meant to stop acid rain. The second frees rocket launches from federal environmental […]

Apple has become the second company in history worth $5tn. It got there by being the one big-tech giant that refused to bet its balance sheet on AI. The iPhone maker briefly touched a $5.04tn market value on Tuesday. Shares hit a session high of $342.89 before easing to close at $340.08, just under […]

The most disturbing corporate harassment campaign in recent tech history has a price. eBay and three of its former executives will pay nearly $56m to the couple they set out to destroy for writing a critical newsletter. David and Ina Steiner of Natick, Massachusetts, run EcommerceBytes, a small […]

The most expensive part of AI coding is no longer the model. It is the software wrapped around it, and enterprises have started to notice. The immediate fight is over price. Cursor, the AI coding tool SpaceX has agreed to buy for $60bn, moved most customers to usage-based billing last year. The […]

PayPal finally addressed the $53bn offer sitting on its table. Its answer was: not at that price. The company gave its first public response on Tuesday’s Q2 earnings call, alongside a beat. Chief executive Enrique Lores would not comment on Stripe and Advent’s bid directly. He said only that […]

DoorDash has won approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to run its own delivery drones, and promptly made clear that most of your food will still arrive by human. The company unveiled an in-house programme called DoorDash Air on 29 July, built around a custom drone of its own rather than […]

Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a round it still calls a seed, first reported by TechCrunch. It arrives at a company with an unusual shape. It gives its best models away, and charges for the wiring around them. The startup is a year old. It says more than 8 This story […]

For the past two years, the AI industry has focused on making models smarter. Every new release promises better reasoning, longer context windows, or more capable autonomous agents. Increasingly, people assume that software won’t just answer questions; it will also complete tasks for us. This […]