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Tesla reclaims the quarterly EV crown from BYD, but the numbers tell a more complicated story

Tesla delivered 358,023 battery electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2026, edging past BYD’s 310,389 pure electric sales to reclaim the global quarterly BEV lead it surrendered across all of 2025. The margin, roughly 48,000 units, was enough for the headline. What it was not enough to do was silence the questions multiplying around […]

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A former Swiss president just filed criminal charges over AI-generated abuse. The target is Grok.

Karin Keller-Sutter, Switzerland’s finance minister and the country’s former president, has filed criminal charges for defamation and insult after Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok was prompted by an anonymous user to generate a torrent of sexist and vulgar remarks about her on X. The complaint, filed on 20 March with the Bern public prosecutor’s office, […]

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Legora just hit $100 million in revenue. It took 18 months.

Eighteen months ago, Legora was a Stockholm startup with a handful of law-firm clients and roughly $1 million in annual recurring revenue. On Tuesday, the company told Business Insider that it has crossed $100 million in ARR, a milestone that in enterprise software typically takes the better part of a decade. Max Junestrand, Legora’s 26-year-old […]

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A jury just told Meta and YouTube their platforms are defective products. Thousands of lawsuits are waiting.

Mark Lanier, the folksy Texas litigator who doubles as a part-time pastor, held a jar of M&Ms in front of the Los Angeles jury and told them that each one represented a billion dollars of Meta’s market capitalisation. There were, by that maths, roughly 1,400 sweets in the jar. The jury awarded his client six […]

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Hasbro has been hacked, and the maker of Peppa Pig says recovery could take weeks

Somewhere in Hasbro’s network, someone was where they should not have been. The $14.4 billion toy and entertainment conglomerate, owner of Peppa Pig, Transformers, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Nerf, Play-Doh, and Power Rangers ,disclosed on Wednesday that it had identified unauthorised access to its systems, an intrusion first detected on 28 March that has since […]

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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, the company disclosed that the pilot had crossed $100 million in annualised revenue, drawn more than 600 advertisers, and reached fewer than a fifth of eligible users. Now OpenAI is […]

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Klarna just struck a $1.7 billion deal to free up capital for $40 billion in lending. Its stock is down 76 per cent from its IPO high.

Six months after listing on the New York Stock Exchange at $40 a share, Klarna is trading at roughly $12. The Swedish buy-now-pay-later company that once symbolised European fintech’s arrival on Wall Street has lost more than three quarters of its market value since its September debut. On Tuesday, it announced a $1.7 billion significant […]

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More than 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. The age of the mass fleet failure has arrived.

On Tuesday evening in Wuhan, more than 100 of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis stopped moving. They did not pull over. They did not activate an emergency protocol. They simply froze, scattered across the city’s roads and elevated highways, some in the middle lane of ring roads with traffic streaming past on both sides. Passengers trapped […]

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China’s third-largest chip foundry just filed for a Hong Kong listing. The real story is the $5 billion fab behind it.

Nexchip Semiconductor filed for a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Tuesday, joining a stampede of Chinese chip companies turning to the city’s capital markets as Beijing pours resources into building a domestic semiconductor supply chain that can withstand American export controls. The Hefei-based foundry, China’s third largest behind SMIC and Hua Hong […]

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South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze

When Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz in late February, choking off the corridor through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas flows, the immediate consequences were predictable: crude prices spiked, energy markets convulsed, and geopolitical analysts reached for their most alarming adjectives. What fewer people anticipated was how quickly the crisis […]

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