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Anthropic seeks 50.1% voting control for founders, The Information reports

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Anthropic wants its seven co-founders to keep control of the company after it goes public. The company is asking shareholders to approve a special class of shares for them, The Information reported on Thursday. Chief executive Dario Amodei and his six co-founders would hold a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters. The […]

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Anthropic signs $11.6bn Akamai cloud deal and gets warrant for 5% of Akamai

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Anthropic has signed an $11.6bn, seven-year agreement to use Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai announced after the US market closed on Thursday. The deal can grow by a further $9bn, which would take the total to about $20bn. As part of the deal, Akamai issued Anthropic a warrant for 7.7 million shares on an as-converted basis, […]

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81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says

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Most chief information officers cannot fully see the AI agents their staff build outside approved systems, a survey by Dataiku found. 81% of the 685 CIOs polled said they lack complete oversight of AI agents created outside formal channels. The Harris Poll ran the survey online for Dataiku from 9 to 29 July. It covered […]

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Volkswagen is selling more EVs than petrol cars in Germany, and building them in Spain

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Volkswagen is now taking more orders for electric cars than for petrol and diesel in Germany, its home market and the largest in Europe, and has cancelled planned extra shifts at Wolfsburg while adding them at Emden and Zwickau. The four budget models driving the shift have taken about 100,000 orders between them and are […]

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Audi beat the EV range record by 133km, and beat its own WLTP figure by 72%

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The reigning European Rally Champion drove an Audi A6 Sportback e-tron 1,338 kilometres across Poland on a single charge, a Guinness World Record, at 7.09 kWh per 100 kilometres. The car’s official WLTP range is 777 kilometres, and the drive took more than 45 hours, which puts the average speed under 30 kilometres an hour. […]

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AI shopping passes 50% of US consumers for the first time, NIQ says

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Some 51% of US consumers used at least one AI tool to help them shop in the past month, according to new figures from NIQ. It is the first time the share has passed 50% in the market research firm’s Agentic Commerce Tracker. Use has grown steadily over the past two quarters, NIQ said. It […]

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China installs 59% of new factory robots as EU installations fall 11%

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Factories around the world installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, and China accounted for 354,000 of them, or 59%. The figures come from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), which published its World Robotics 2026 report on Thursday. The number of robots at work in factories rose 9% to a record 5 million, […]

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