Wednesday, Jun 17, 2026
WeRoad Just Raised $58M to Sell Strangers a Trip Together – Airbnb Is Betting It Works
WeRoad, the Milan-based group travel platform founded in 2017 by Paolo De Nadai, Fabio Bin, and Erika De Santi, closed…
$1.3 Billion for a Router: OpenRouter’s Raise Is a Bet the AI Model Wars Are Already Over
OpenRouter, the AI gateway startup founded in 2023, closed a $113 million Series B on Monday led by CapitalG, the…
Volvo Gets Its Carve-Out – and the Connected Car Rulebook Just Got Complicated
Volvo Cars reached an agreement with the Trump administration on Tuesday that exempts the Swedish automaker from U.S. rules banning…
Oil at $98, Stocks Unsettled: Markets Price the Gap Between a Deal and a Strike
The sequence that played out in markets on Monday and into Tuesday is a case study in what happens when…
1.8%. That’s Apple’s Margin in China Right Now, and It’s Thinner Than It Looks
The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) released its April smartphone shipment data on Tuesday, and the headline…
Samsung’s Pay Deal Has a Flaw: Not Everyone at Samsung Gets to Vote On It
The government-mediated deal that averted an 18-day strike at Samsung Electronics, which NewsTrackerToday opened with as the most instructive labor…
Struck While Talking: What the Hormuz Attack Means for Trump’s Iran Endgame
Hours after President Trump posted on Truth Social that Iran negotiations were 'proceeding nicely,' US and Israeli jets struck Iranian…
The eSports Founder Who Convinced Cathie Wood to Bet Against the AI Crowd
Raising a $20 million Series B for an eSports company in Q4 of 2025 sounds, on paper, like exactly the…
Ferrari’s New Superfan Machine: When F1 Data Meets IBM’s AI and 30 Years of Loyalty
Two years ago, IBM's sports partnerships portfolio had a clear gap: Formula One. That absence is now resolved. The company…
Hormuz Closed, Tankers Rerouted: India’s Oil Map Just Changed Permanently
India imported 4.57 million barrels per day of crude oil in April 2026, roughly flat from March and down 15.5%…
Jardine Matheson Buys Into Radiology – and the AI Bet Hidden Inside the Deal
Jardine Matheson announced on Monday it has agreed to acquire I-MED Radiology Network, Australia's largest private medical imaging provider, for…
Google’s Security Advice Is Sound. Its Own API Keys Tell a Different Story
Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, offered a calm and genuinely useful message at a tech event in Los…
Samsung’s Near-Strike and the Question Seoul Can No Longer Avoid
On Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon spoke to CNBC and said something Seoul's government has spent years avoiding: the…
Softcat’s Upgrade Is a Quiet Read on Where Corporate AI Spending Actually Sits
Softcat does not build AI models. It does not run data centers. The Marlow-based firm sells and implements IT infrastructure…
Beijing Says It Never Told AI Firms to Reject U.S. Money. Does That Settle It?
On Friday morning in Beijing, NDRC spokesperson Li Chao stood at a press briefing and delivered a denial that had…