Wednesday, Jun 17, 2026
Russia’s Sberbank Pitches ‘Sovereign AI’ to the Global South – A Geopolitical Gambit Hidden Inside a Tech Sale
From Russia's biggest economic conference in St. Petersburg, Sberbank's first deputy CEO Alexander Vedyakhin makes a pitch blending technology sales…
Microsoft Unleashes Scout: The AI Agent That Learns Your Quirks and Rewires How You Work
A new AI assistant lands inside Microsoft 365 that functions less like a chatbot and more like a personal operative.…
SpaceX Is Worth Half Its IPO Price, Morningstar Warns – But Even the Bears Expect a Post-Listing Pop
As SpaceX prepares to launch the most anticipated roadshow in capital markets history, a contrarian voice cuts through the bullish…
Tesla’s China Sales Explode 40% as Shanghai Gigafactory Breaks 2026 Record – Rivals Still Scrambling
Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory records its strongest monthly output of 2026 in May, delivering 85,982 new energy vehicles – a year-on-year…
Humanoid Robots Emerge as the Next Trillion-Dollar AI Goldmine – and China Is Already Winning
Wall Street is waking up to a technology poised to redefine the global economy. Humanoid robots – machines built in…
Zhipu AI Wants a Second Listing – and the Reasons Tell You Everything About the AI Capital Race
The world's first publicly traded large language model company just announced it wants to go public again. On Monday, Knowledge…
Jensen Huang Said Supply Is Constrained – then Said It Was Fine. Both Things Are True
The $5 trillion chip company has a talking-points challenge that is also, honestly, a good problem to have. At Computex…
Prime Day Moves to June – and This Year, Shoppers Are Stocking Up on Soap, Not Gadgets
Amazon's annual Prime Day is happening earlier than usual in 2026, and the timing shift is matched by a shift…
McDonald’s Rewrites Its Playbook – but the Real Bet Is What Comes After the Menu
McDonald's doesn't launch global strategies quietly. On Monday, at its biennial Worldwide Convention in Las Vegas - the event gathering…
Disrupted or Dead: What ChatGPT’s Arrival Did to the Startup Funding Map
Five years ago, venture capital felt almost frictionless. Investors poured billion-dollar valuations into startups selling everything from scheduling software to…
Uber’s Munich Bet: OEM-Agnostic, Nvidia-Powered, Pending Approval from a City That Actually Regulates
Uber and Israel-based Autobrains announced on Monday a three-way robotaxi programme for Munich in collaboration with Nvidia, combining Uber’s ride-hailing…
The Alphabet-Amazon Bond Trade Is Quietly Rewriting Who Owns Global Credit Markets
Amazon raised 14.5 billion euros in March from an eight-part bond deal, the largest single transaction ever in the euro…
53%. South Korea Just Posted an Export Number That Belongs in a History Book
South Korea’s export data for May arrived on Monday morning and it is the kind of number that requires a…
SoftBank Is Betting €75 Billion on France. Masayoshi Son Has Bet This Way Before
SoftBank Group announced on Friday that it plans to invest up to €75 billion, approximately $87 billion, to expand data…
Gemini Spark Works. Google Just Made It Confusingly Unnecessary to Name It
Google announced Gemini Spark at its annual developer conference in May, and the product that CEO Sundar Pichai joked would…