Google is months behind on its Gemini Pro upgrade as coding falls short, engineers leave for Anthropic, and a training data refresh disappointed internally.

The EU has ordered Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share its search data with competitors under the Digital Markets Act.

Google is rebranding NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook, expanding its code execution features to Pro subscribers and bringing notebooks into AI Mode in Search.

An AI brain implant called the double neural bypass restored movement and touch to a paralysed man, and the gains lasted years, per Nature Medicine.

Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform with Open USD support, letting banks issue and settle stablecoins, sending Circle shares down roughly six percent.

Bunkerhill Health raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, taking its total to $55M, to put healthcare AI agents to work inside hospitals.

Microsoft is overhauling its security business around AI and cutting several hundred jobs, aiming to win back spending flowing to OpenAI and Anthropic.

Apple is preparing the biggest iPad mini overhaul in years with an OLED screen and A19 Pro chip, targeting an October release amid rising component costs.

The UK drops its VPN restrictions plan after its own research found children use VPNs for privacy, not to dodge age checks. The onus shifts to platforms.

Fireworks raised $1.5bn at a $17.5bn valuation, betting every company will build its own specialized intelligence instead of renting from a big lab.

Israeli startup Oak has raised $60M for an AI-native identity platform that governs every user, machine, and AI agent from a single control plane.

Xpeng launched the L03 coupe-SUV across 65 markets with in-house Turing AI chips and a second-generation autonomous driving system on every trim.