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KPMG scouts Silicon Valley start-ups in bid to head off AI disruption

Firm looks to partner or invest in groups that could otherwise undermine its business model

China overhauls world’s biggest surveillance network with advanced AI

Local police forces are modernising the country’s ageing infrastructure with more powerful tracking systems

How AI threatens the giants of consulting

The technology opens the door for smaller, well-funded challengers to take market share from the Big Four and others

Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?

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Physics AI research that’s shaping the industry.

The acquisition of Emmi AI has highlighted Mistral’s commitment towards pushing the state-of-the-art in AI research and enterprise solutions for industrial engineering.

Use Grok in Kilo Code

Use your SuperGrok or X Premium+ subscription inside Kilo Code, the open-source agentic coding platform.

After ‘After Automation’

Plus: The Vatican weighs in on AI labor, and our Codex playbook

Anthropic opens Milan office to support Italian enterprise, research, and developers

Anthropic will open a new office in Milan, our sixth in Europe alongside London, Dublin, Paris, Zurich, and Munich. The Milan team will work with Italian companies and the country's developer community on building and scaling with Claude responsibly, and contribute to a conversation about AI that is already underway across Italian industry and public life.

DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search

Google overhauled Search at I/O 2026, replacing blue links with AI agents. The backlash has been swift. DuckDuckGo app installs spiked 30% as users seek a way out.

Is Peter Thiel the target of Pope Leo's Gandalf quote? An investigation.

I’m not suggesting that a man like Pope Leo—the Vicar of Christ, the Bishop of Rome, the Servant of the Servants of God—would stoop to anything quite so base as “trolling” the onetime PayPal co-founder and current Antichrist alarmist Peter Thiel. But I’m also not not suggesting it, if you see what I mean.

Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules

Musk says drones used Starlink instead of Starshield, blames military contractor.

Starship's path to reusability looks murky after SpaceX's S-1

SpaceX's recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company's boosters and its critics.