AI is suing to strike down Minnesota’s first-of-its-kind ‘nudify’ ban, arguing the First Amendment protects the tools. It does so amid a Grok CSAM class action.

BuzzFeed laid off about 180 people, a third of its staff, in owner Byron Allen’s first big cut. Its AI turnaround bet has not reversed the decline.

Bay and three former executives will pay nearly $56m to the couple they harassed with cockroaches and a bloody pig mask. The bigger price: no NDA.

Shein disclosed an undisclosed FTC consumer-protection probe in its Hong Kong IPO filing. The agency polices ‘dark patterns’. The tricks Shein’s app runs on.

PayPal met Stripe’s $53bn bid with a Q2 earnings beat and a message: it is open to a deal, but not at $60.50 a share. One analyst pegs it nearer $70.

Runlayer says it let Rippling trial its AI product for a year, then Rippling built “almost a 1 to 1 copy.” Its lawsuit is a warning for AI-infra startups.

Apple briefly touched a $5tn valuation, the second company ever, as investors flee the AI capex bonfire into the one giant that sat the race out.

In one day, the Trump administration moved to exempt data-centre power plants from acid-rain rules and rocket launches from environmental review.

Cursor’s price hikes push enterprises to Claude Code. But firms are bypassing both with open-source harnesses that cut AI coding bills up to 97%.

Visa is cutting 7% of staff, mostly in tech and product, and reinvesting in stablecoins and cross-border payments. Its memo names AI as an accelerant.

NextEra and Brookfield plan a Kentucky data-centre campus worth up to $100bn, Bloomberg reports, pairing the largest US utility with a $100bn AI fund.

The UK’s CMA is investigating whether Microsoft misled 365 customers when it raised prices and bundled in Copilot, obscuring a cheaper Classic plan.