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Foreign automakers are not staging a comeback in China. They are learning to be the junior partner.

In January and February 2026, Volkswagen reclaimed the top position in China’s passenger vehicle market with a 13.9 per cent share, narrowly ahead of Geely at 13.8 per cent. Toyota’s joint ventures held 7.8 per cent. BYD, which dominated 2024 and much of 2025 as the world’s largest EV maker, slipped to fourth at 7.1 […]This story continues at The Next Web

Netflix delays Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ movie for big theatrical push in 2027

"The Magician's Nephew" looks like a big next step in Netflix's thawing relationship with movie theaters.

Nvidia built the AI engine. Alphabet is building the car, the road, and the toll booth. The market is pricing accordingly.

On Thursday, Alphabet’s share price rose nearly 10 per cent after the company reported first-quarter revenue of $109.9 billion, a 22 per cent increase year over year that beat analyst estimates by almost $3 billion. Google Cloud crossed $20 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, growing 63 per cent. The cloud backlog nearly […]This story continues at The Next Web

China has decided that firing a worker because an AI can do their job is illegal. No Western country has done the same.

A quality assurance supervisor identified only as Zhou joined a technology company in Hangzhou in November 2022. His job was to work with AI large language models, optimising their outputs and filtering sensitive content. He earned 25,000 yuan per month, roughly $3,640. In 2024, the company decided that its AI systems had improved to the […]This story continues at The Next Web

The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked

AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice

Beyond Lovable and Mistral: 21 European startups to watch

It is not that European startups never get attention — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are many more that insiders are tracking.

The EVs America is losing in 2026 are not failing. They are being tariffed out of existence.

  At least a dozen electric vehicle models have been discontinued, paused, or cancelled in the United States this year. The list includes some of the most recognisable names in the industry: Tesla’s Model S and Model X, Honda’s entire 0 Series, the Volvo EX30, the BMW i4 and iX, the Hyundai Kona Electric and […]This story continues at The Next Web

Rumors swirl among Miami brokers that Elon Musk toured this $300M under-construction mansion

A $300 million modern home in Miami that’s under construction may have caught the attention of Elon Musk, the world’s richest ...

Gabe Newell Emailed Elon Musk To Try To Get Hideo Kojima An Invite To SpaceX

Thanks to the ongoing trial pitting billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman against each other, it's come to light that Valve ...

Elon Musk's latest Tesla pay valued at $158bn - but he can't pocket it

Musk must meet a range of ambitious milestones at Tesla to justify the monster pay packet - so far he has not.

Elon Musk's security bill keeps on rising

Tesla spent about $4.8 million on Elon Musk's security in 2025, up from $2.8 million the year before, according to an SEC ...

Elon Musk Took Home $0 From Tesla in 2025

Despite a reported $158.4 billion compensation figure, Tesla’s CEO didn’t earn a dime last year as his pay remains tied to ...

Elon Musk’s Tesla compensation totals $158 billion for 2025

Tesla Inc. tallied up Elon Musk’s annual compensation for the first time since shareholders approved his moonshot pay package, and it's a doozy: $158 billion.

Elon Musk went to court. The judge wasn't amused.

Elon Musk's outsize reputation, provocative remarks and his friction with a federal judge have dominated the trial in his ...

I was in the courthouse when Elon Musk testified in his case against OpenAI. Here is what it was like.

From chaotic lines outside the courthouse to the presiding judge who runs a precise schedule, here is how the Tesla CEO's testimony went.

Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.

Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, just days before the application deadline. The document lists 15 categories of companies that YC’s partners want to fund. Eight of them require capital, hardware, or both. The list includes AI for low-pesticide agriculture, counter-swarm drone defence, inference chips for space, lunar manufacturing […]This story continues at The Next Web

Seven minutes from JFK to Midtown. Joby just flew the route it plans to sell.

The flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown Manhattan took seven minutes. By car, depending on the time of day, the same journey takes between 60 and 120 minutes. On Friday, Joby Aviation landed its all-electric air taxi at the heliport as part of a demonstration hosted […]This story continues at The Next Web

The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable

The company that built TikTok’s recommendation algorithm, the system that predicts with unsettling accuracy what a person wants to watch next, is now using a related class of AI to predict how molecules will behave inside a human body. ByteDance’s drug discovery unit, Anew Labs, presented its first AI-designed therapy at the American Association of […]This story continues at The Next Web

Musk’s case against OpenAI lands roughly in its first week

Three days of cross-examination in Oakland produced a $130bn lawsuit’s most awkward admissions, including that xAI trains on OpenAI’s models. The judge, not the jury, will decide. Elon Musk took the stand in Oakland on Tuesday with a story he has been telling for two years. He had founded OpenAI in 2015, he said, to […]This story continues at The Next Web

Apple’s $599 Mac mini is gone. Blame the AI agents.

Apple has quietly raised the desktop’s starting price to $799 after demand from developers building local AI tools cleared its shelves. Tim Cook says it could take months to catch up. For five years, the Mac mini has been the cheapest way into Apple’s desktop ecosystem. Since the M4 refresh in late 2024, that price […]This story continues at The Next Web