Trump’s ‘Golden Dome for America’ needs its data protected. Google is in talks with the Pentagon to help, according to Bloomberg.

VideoLAN says France’s gigabyte tax would cost it over €1m a year. Author Laurent Lhardit: “I fail to see how a tax can be passed on.” ...

Austria says it is “unacceptable for Brussels to block member states” as the EU freezes its under-14 social media ban for a year.

Meta humanoid prototype Max runs on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor, has five-fingered hands and a face screen. A second version is in the works.

Binance will absorb the financial impact,’ the exchange says, as the FBI blames the Binance hack on North Korea and withdrawals restart.

The DeepSeek Super-Agent prototype is built to “take as little human attention as possible”. Its open-source code is now on GitHub.

We welcome the opportunity to explain our approach,’ Meta says, as the CMA opens an investigation into its terms for publishers’ content.

Sands Capital is set to lead a $2bn round that would put Baseten’s valuation at up to $30bn, up from $13bn in June.

Finnish police cite ‘ambiguities and deficiencies in drainage’ at Google’s Muhos site as they open a Google Finland data centre investigation.

Big Tech buybacks fell 83% as AI spending grew, Reuters found. Franklin Templeton calls the new era ‘a request of capital from investors’.

AWS grew 39% and free cash flow fell to minus $42.4bn. Andy Jassy says Amazon will spend even more on AI in 2027.

Pope Leo wants to disarm AI, saying ‘machines are tools, not persons’, and urges a ban on lethal autonomous weapons before Geneva talks.