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Katelyn Watterson owes her career to a summer internship. As a student at American University, she spent a summer working for a high-end beauty brand in New York. Her boss offered her a full-time job over drinks at the Plaza Hotel.…

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna used a round table in Modena on Thursday to defend the €550,000 ($640,000) price tag for the Luce, the company’s first fully electric vehicle. The car was unveiled on Monday.…

Stark, a Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, is in discussions to raise at least €300 million at a valuation of approximately €2.5 billion, the Financial Times reported.…

The US Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract on Friday to build satellites that track foreign aircraft and missiles. The programme is called Space-Based Advanced Moving Target Indicator, or SB-AMTI.…

In February 2026, AI research lab METR tried to repeat a groundbreaking study measuring how much time developers take to complete tasks with and without AI. It could not.…

The Pentagon is buying defence hardware faster than it can make any of it talk to each other. Sensors, autonomous platforms, edge compute, electronic-warfare payloads, space and undersea systems, all arriving at once, each speaking its own dialect.…

Autodesk has spent four decades selling the software that engineers and architects use to design buildings, factories and machines. With its latest acquisition, it is buying its way into what happens after those things are built.…

Denmark’s AkademikerPension, which manages roughly $25 billion for academic professionals, has said it will not participate in SpaceX’s initial public offering or buy shares in any secondary-market transaction, according to Bloomberg.…

The Delhi High Court held that letting competitors bid on the trademark ‘Hindware’ as an ad keyword is infringement, and that Google’s safe-harbour shield does not cover it.…

Australia’s Fair Work Commission has announced a review of its processes to cope with what it described as an estimated 70% workload increase over three years, driven in part by the proliferation of generative AI assistance tools.…

The fight over who makes the world’s chips is increasingly a fight over the parts of a chip nobody photographs. India has just landed one of them.…

Samsung Electronics and LG Uplus signed a memorandum of understanding on 27 May to jointly develop Integrated Sensing and Communication, or ISAC, a technology that would allow mobile network base stations to double as environmental sensors.…

The year-old Dutch startup is folding in a seven-year-old performance-marketing platform, betting that customers want AI, automation and human specialists in one place. Most startups spend their first year trying to survive.…

CoStar Group has agreed to acquire Zonda, the leading provider of new-home construction data, homebuilder software, and residential real estate marketplaces, for $800 million in cash.…

ChargePoint and Powers Parts, a national distributor of electric vehicle components and fleet replacement parts, have announced a partnership to sell ChargePoint charging hardware, software, and fleet management services directly to transit agencies…

Asana has acquired Stack AI, a no-code platform for building AI agents that operate across enterprise systems like Salesforce, Slack, and Google Workspace.…

Nvidia has committed at least $6.5 billion to photonics companies since the beginning of March, making it the largest single investor in the technology that many in the industry believe will replace copper wiring as the backbone of AI data centres.…

Independent research by DutchBasecamp and Ogni, based on 150+ founder perspectives across Europe, will be revealed at an exclusive Amsterdam event co-hosted with CCIA Europe on June 30.…

SpaceX is targeting a valuation of at least $1.8 trillion in its initial public offering, down from the $2 trillion-plus it was aiming for as recently as April, according to Bloomberg.…

Developers of agentic AI have been making some big claims. The promise has been of autonomous systems that can do everything, from booking our flights and keeping an eye on competitors in real time to handling entire procurement cycles , all without…