The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him
Alex Karp, the co-founder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, has quietly assembled a real estate portfolio worth more than $200 million across a reported 20 properties worldwide. The common thread is seclusion: a former monastery in the Colorado mountains, a rural compound in New Hampshire, and a pair of mansions on a gated Miami island. […]
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Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code
Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of escalating conflict between the two companies over allegations that Alibaba stole Anthropic’s AI capabilities through industrial-scale distillation. “As Claude Code was […]
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The AI chip trade cracked this week, and the hunt for what replaces it has begun
The trade that defined the first half of 2026, buying anything with proximity to a GPU, broke apart in the holiday-shortened week before Independence Day. The PHLX Semiconductor Index, which had surged more than 80% in the first half, sank 6.3% on Wednesday and 5.4% on Thursday, a two-session decline of roughly 12%. While chip stocks […]
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The man who built Pegasus now sells governments the antidote, and Latin America is buying
Dream, the Israeli AI cybersecurity startup that tripled its valuation to $3 billion this year, is expanding into Latin America. The company is targeting governments aligned with Washington in a region where cyber attacks are reportedly growing 25% annually and national defences rank among the weakest in the world. The expansion is notable for what […]
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Crusoe reportedly in talks to raise $3 billion, tripling its valuation
Crusoe is reportedly in talks to raise about $3 billion in a new funding round that could triple its valuation to roughly $30 billion, according to Bloomberg News, which cited people familiar with the matter. Crusoe did not respond to a request for comment, and no terms, structure or lead investors have been disclosed publicly. […]
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A rocket motor blew up at Anduril’s Mississippi test site. The defence darling says it’s routine
Anduril has become the poster child for a faster, software-speed kind of defence contractor. Last Friday, one of its rocket motors blew up on a test stand in Mississippi. The blast is a small setback that carries an outsized message about how hard building missiles really is. A solid rocket motor exploded during a test […]
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Dutch military backs Intelic’s drone software with tens of millions of euros
The three-year deal aims to let drones from different manufacturers operate under one command system, a lesson the Netherlands says it has drawn from Ukraine. The Netherlands’ Ministry of Defence is putting tens of millions of euros into Intelic, a Dutch startup whose software lets drones from competing manufacturers operate under a single command system. […]
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China approves Unitree’s Shanghai listing registration, valuing IPO at $619M
China’s securities regulator has approved Unitree Robotics’ registration to list on Shanghai’s STAR Market, clearing the last formal hurdle before the humanoid robot maker can price and sell shares. The approval, confirmed by Reuters on Thursday, values the planned offering at roughly $619 million, or about 4.2 billion yuan, a figure that lines up closely […]
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India widens its usernames crackdown to Telegram and Signal
A government source says the IT ministry has sent notices to both apps, a day after ordering WhatsApp to pause its own usernames rollout. India’s technology ministry has sent notices to Telegram and Signal raising concerns over their usernames features, a government source told Reuters, extending a regulatory push that began with WhatsApp just a […]
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