Geely says it will stop building factories and start borrowing everyone else’s instead Li Shufu, the billionaire chairman of Geely Holding Group and the man who bought Volvo Cars from Ford for $1.8 billion in 2010, has arrived at a con…
OpenAI is hiring ad-tech firms to make ChatGPT ads talk back to you Six weeks was all it took. On 9 February, OpenAI switched on advertisements inside ChatGPT for free-tier users in the United States. By late March, …
ALSO hits $1B valuation and signs DoorDash as its first major autonomous delivery partner The Palo Alto small-EV company raised $200M in a Series C led by Greenoaks, with DoorDash investing alongside a multi-year commercial agreement to d…
Austrian food-waste startup Afreshed acquires German rival Etepetete in DACH consolidation play German consumers throw away 4.4 million tonnes of food every year, worth roughly €6 billion. Austrian startup Afreshed just bet that the solution is…
Uber is acquiring Blacklane, the Berlin chauffeur platform backed by Sixt and Mercedes-Benz The deal, financial terms undisclosed, expected to close by end of 2026, arrives weeks after Uber launched its own Uber Elite chauffeur service and …
UK fines Apple subsidiary for paying a sanctioned Russian streaming service through the App Store The UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has fined Apple Distribution International, Apple’s Ireland-based subsidiary, £390,000 for mak…
Bluesky’s new Attie app uses AI to give you full control over your social feed The standalone app, built on the AT Protocol and powered by Anthropic’s Claude, was unveiled at the ATmosphere conference by Jay Graber, who stepped…