The young Americans choosing Y2K cars over shiny new SUVs: ‘I get so much crap from people’ People under 35 are hunting for no-frills rides they can pay for in cash and fix themselves – defying expectations to take on steep loans
Elon Musk reportedly invests $1bn in David Ellison’s Skydance Musk’s investment into the new media empire comes after Paramount’s $111bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery
Meta strikes deal with Mark Zuckerberg to help him foot billionaire tax bill Chief executive agrees to remain in California for eight years even if state brings in one-off 5% wealth tax
Tesla beats earnings projections after Musk floats SpaceX merger plan Musk says ‘there’s a lot of merit’ to potential merger that would require approval of 50% of all Tesla shareholders, but declined to elaborate
Booking.com under investigation by EU regulators over fake listings and scams European Commission calls accommodation website’s approach to fraudulent listings and phishing scams as ‘absolutely substandard’
Tesla and SpaceX explore merger as Elon Musk gives backing Billionaire, on SpaceX earnings call, says ‘I do think there’s a lot of merit to combining the companies’
‘Too big to not fail’: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers Our dependence on internet services of a few key tech companies leaves us vulnerable to cloud failures, bugs and more, experts say
Google Cloud outage: problems fixed for ‘most‘ customers, as regulators push for details – as it happened Google apologises after power issue causes a major Cloud outage in its London region today that led to problems at banks, Revolut, and court video cameras
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani launches India’s biggest-ever IPO Low-cost broadband provider Jio Platforms aims for £81bn valuation when it floats on the stock market on Wednesday
AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for ‘public good’ The $48bn giveaway comes amid concerns about the tech and as the company prepares for a stock market listing
Microsoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in country loses anchor tenant
World leaders must wise up to threat of cyber-attacks or rogue fridges will be least of their worries Global cooperation seems unlikely despite AI increasing the risk of digital fraud and the need to protect the financial system
World Bank says ‘small AI’ could transform developing countries Bank’s chief knowledge officer says the tech could speed up economic development from centuries to decades
Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap – and scary – Chinese AI In the west the technology comes with at least some effort to provide security and a benign intent – not so from China
Elon Musk reveals ‘world’s first flying car’ at Tesla event The Tesla Roadster 2 drove up a curved ramp before using SpaceX rocket thrusters to fly, flip and land