Henna Virkkunen and Tim Cook held a video call on 30 June about Apple, the DMA, and a Siri AI launch still blocked on EU iPhones.

The UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI says two countries hold 90% of leading compute, and the window to govern AI is closing.

A 140-strong consortium including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase has launched Open USD, a shared-governance stablecoin aimed at Circle and Tether.

Singapore’s OCBC plans to raise annual technology spending to more than $771mn, per Bloomberg, as CEO Tan Teck Long pushes AI, data and digital deeper.

TikTok is weighing roughly 300 redundancies at its Dublin base, around 10% of local staff, a year after a similarly sized round.

Lime priced its Nasdaq IPO at $25 a share, the midpoint of its range, raising roughly $174m and valuing the scooter firm near $1.7bn.

A US judge refused to toss claims from 29 states that Meta addicted children, and handed the states an early win on child-privacy law.

Vimeo owner Bending Spoons and its backers raised $1.68bn, pricing shares at $29 above range, in one of Europe’s biggest listings of the year.

Korea's competition watchdog says Google leaned on game developers to favour Play, flagging a possible fine near $547m.

Microsoft is preparing to cut under 2.5% of its staff as soon as next week, hitting sales, consulting, and Xbox, Business Insider reports.

June PMI data shows the AI boom lifting factories from China to Japan, offsetting the drag from a Middle East conflict pushing up costs.

The US Commerce Department has lifted export controls on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and access begins returning on 1 July.