The EU issued preliminary findings accusing Facebook and Instagram of addictive design, ordering Meta to disable autoplay and infinite scroll or face fines up to $12 billion.

Apple claims OpenAI used current and former employees to steal hardware secrets as it builds an iPhone rival. Over 400 ex-Apple staff now work at OpenAI.

Meta's first Muse Image model let users generate images from public Instagram accounts by default. SAG-AFTRA, CAA, and actors pushed back. Meta pulled it in 3 days.

Johannes Heidecke is leaving OpenAI as the company merges safety and research under a new VP role. It's the latest in a long line of safety exits and team disbandments.

CISA revealed it had to build a playbook during a live incident after a contractor exposed government credentials on GitHub. The agency has lost a third of staff.

Subversive ETFs filed for two funds tracking the Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500 but excluding Elon Musk's companies, after SpaceX's index inclusion.

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle have doubled their debt to $350bn to build AI, and are now crowding into European bond markets, ahead of France.

MiniMax is raising up to $2bn after an 80% crash, while founder Yan Junjie vows no salary until AGI and pledges 5% of his shares to staff and open source.

The UK has named Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle its first "critical third parties", putting the four clouds under financial oversight from 13 July.

Britain's new £2bn AI 'Combat Laboratory' will train 60,000 soldiers a year. A US firm leads it, and Germany's Rheinmetall takes nearly half.

Anwar Ibrahim's government will soon deploy PMX AI, an agentic avatar trained on his speeches that talks like him and walks citizens through gov services.

Senator Ed Markey has unveiled an 'AI accountability agenda' of bills targeting data centres, biased algorithms, chatbots and workplace surveillance.