Samsung Electronics plans a 90 trillion won buyback over three years, tied to a special bonus for its chip division. Shares rose more than 6%.

Jonathan Gray told Nikkei that Blackstone will invest $30B in Japanese AI data centres over three to five years, eyeing facilities above one gigawatt.

Meta’s $399 Starfire glasses, designed with Kylie Jenner, let Meta AI speak in her voice and headline its new own-brand range.

The Trump administration is pushing Meta, the lone holdout among major US developers, to submit its AI for federal review, the NYT reports.

A US legal-tech firm with Canadian developers has sued Washington over the export order that forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 worldwide.

The maker of the Digit humanoid robot is reportedly in talks to go public through a SPAC merger valuing it at about $2.5B, per a WSJ report.

Google’s YouTube has settled with a teen plaintiff weeks before a second California bellwether trial, leaving Meta, Snap and TikTok to face the jury.

Anthropic launched Claude Tag in research preview, an always-on AI that follows Slack conversations, learns company context, and proactively flags updates.

ByteDance announced Seedance 2.5 at its Beijing conference, generating 30-second native 4K clips from up to 50 reference inputs, with public launch in July.

Security firm AIR built a harmless fake skill, got it past Cisco and NVIDIA scanners, and says it reached 26,000 agents, exposing a blind spot in how skills are vetted.

SpaceX attracted $89 billion in orders for its first investment-grade bond sale, seeking to raise up to $25 billion to refinance a bridge loan from its IPO.

Oracle shed 13% of its workforce while spending $55.7 billion on data centres. Its SEC filing explicitly cites AI adoption as the cause of job losses.