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Bilibili has relaunched its international app without ID checks and is hiring in London and Istanbul. In Europe, the DSA is waiting rather than a ban.

Anthropic expects to match or beat SpaceX's $75bn IPO, the largest ever. It lost almost $42bn in 2025, five times the previous year's loss.

Mark Zuckerberg has bought Strancally Castle and 440 acres in County Waterford, the third large Irish estate bought by a tech billionaire since 2021.

Taco Bell has deployed voice AI to 890+ U.S. restaurants. Independent testing shows employee intervention rates ranging from 3% to 33% across brands, revealing how much deployment maturity matters in drive-thru AI.

NUS, DayOne and Cortical Labs have built a 20-unit rack of biological computers in Singapore. The efficiency claim behind it comes without numbers.

Octopus Energy has launched Octopus Charge in North America with 210,000 chargers. Its European version has 1.5 million, and the reason is regulation.

Cinemas, US schools and ICE are all restricting Meta smart glasses, for reasons that have nothing in common. The cinema rule dates to 2014.

Milan-based Domyn has raised about $1.1bn, roughly 90% of it debt, to expand the Colosseum supercomputer it built with Nvidia in southern Italy.

Slack Code lets teams and AI agents write, review and ship code in one channel. Claude, ChatGPT, Devin and Copilot are founding partners.

Waymo published its robotaxi compute architecture, a custom 5nm chip and its seven suppliers. Nvidia and AMD are still on the list.