SpaceX to list on US stock market at historic $1.77tn valuation
Posted on Friday June 12, 2026

Initial public offering for aerospace and AI company made Musk the world’s first trillionaire as share prices jumped

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SpaceX made the biggest stock market debut in history on Friday after nearly two and a half decades as a private company. Public trading began around midday with a starting share price of $150, which quickly jumped by a double digit percentage and sent the company’s valuation above $2tn, where it remained through market close. The company’s initial public offering made the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire.

“It is certainly hard to believe that a little company that started in a warehouse in El Segundo is now going public with the largest IPO ever,” Musk said in an address at SpaceX’s headquarters Friday morning. He reiterated the company’s mission to “make humanity multiplanetary” and “take the fiction out of science fiction”.

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Public control of water and energy at heart of Burnham agenda, sources say
Posted on Saturday June 13, 2026

Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor ‘serious’ about taking over ‘essentials of life’ if he becomes PM, a move critics say could cost taxpayer billions

A decade-long project to bring water and energy into public control will lie at the heart of Andy Burnham’s agenda should he become prime minister, according to sources close to the Greater Manchester mayor.

Several close allies of Burnham have said he wants to take over broad swathes of UK utilities in an effort to improve performance and potentially reduce bills for consumers.

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Anthropic to disable its most advanced AI models after US order limiting foreign access
Posted on Saturday June 13, 2026

Company said US government believes safeguards can be bypassed and product used to identify software vulnerabilities

Anthropic said it will “abruptly disable” its most advanced AI models for all users after the US government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns.

The company received the export control directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, without being given specific details of the national security concern, Anthropic said in a statement.

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‘We eat and drink risk’: higher costs bring curtain down on more UK music festivals
Posted on Saturday June 13, 2026

Plans for new event at the Secret Garden Party site and Womad Glasgow are dashed, but others remain optimistic

Hosting Scotland’s first Womad festival seemed like an easy sell for Glasgow, the country’s gig capital and self-proclaimed “dynamic global hub for music lovers”.

However, last week the internationally renowned event celebrating performance from around the world, successfully staged in 30 countries since being co-founded by former Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel in 1982, was cancelled due to low ticket sales.

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Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones
Posted on Friday June 12, 2026

Location scans from the globally popular augmented reality game have helped train AI to recognise and interpret physical spaces

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An AI model trained on data collected from users of Pokémon Go will potentially help military drones find their location in war zones.

Pokémon Go, a 2016 augmented reality mobile game, allowed players to find and catch Pokémon in the real world using the cameras on their mobile phones, and exploded in popularity. In 2018, the company reported having more than 800m downloads worldwide.

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Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself
Posted on Thursday June 11, 2026

Suit filed in US alleges chatbot told Alice Carrier, 24, ‘maybe this is just the end’ as she struggled with suicidal thoughts

A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US court on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to kill herself. The lawsuit is the latest in a slew accusing the company of failing to address dangerous conversations between users and the company’s chatbot.

Kristie Carrier said in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco state court that her daughter, Alice, told ChatGPT about her suicidal ideations more than a dozen times leading up to her death but that OpenAI’s safety systems never flagged the conversations for human review or terminated them.

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Qatar v Switzerland: World Cup 2026 – live
Posted on Saturday June 13, 2026

⚽️ Kick-off 12pm local, 3pm EST, 8pm BST, 4am Sun AEST
⚽️ Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot | Mail John

Here’s the Qatari star man.

Sunderland fans will be looking forward to seeing their local hero in action.

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George Russell bounces back in style to claim pole at Barcelona-Catalunya GP
Posted on Saturday June 13, 2026

• ‘I feel like my old self again. It’s a bit of a relief’

• Lewis Hamilton second ahead of Kimi Antonelli

George Russell scorched to pole position for Sunday’s Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix after Lewis Hamilton narrowly failed to pip him with a thrilling last-ditch effort for Ferrari. Another dramatic qualifying session was stopped early in Q3 when Charles Leclerc, Hamilton’s Ferrari teammate, suffered a heavy high-speed crash that knocked him out of contention.

Russell had said on arrival in Spain that the pressure was off him, having fallen 68 points behind championship leader and Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli due to a run of bad luck. The latest episode had come with an incorrect penalty for pit lane speeding last weekend in Monaco. But his fastest lap of 1min 15.717sec was enough to put him top of the standings, with Hamilton 0.064sec slower.

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