ShinyHunters leaked 45GB of MSG data after a missed ransom deadline, exposing biometric surveillance records and triggering a class action lawsuit.

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the developer behind VLC's 6 billion downloads, raised $5M from Lightspeed for Kyber, an SDK for controlling remote machines in real time.

BYD executive VP Stella Li said the company has followed all local regulations at its Szeged plant, where Hungarian police are probing toxic soil allegations.

Asus listed the 2026 ROG Zephyrus G16 with an RTX 5080 at $4,799. The 2025 model with a faster RTX 5090 and 64GB of RAM sells for $200 less.

Trump told Axios that Anthropic has "behaved very responsibly" and signalled he may ease restrictions on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models.

Norway will bar children aged 6 to 13 from using generative AI tools in school from late August. Teens 14-16 can use them only under teacher supervision.

Aether AI, founded by UCSD researcher Biwei Huang, has raised $20mn to build causal world models for robots, a direct challenge to AI's scaling orthodoxy.

John Edwards has resigned as the UK's information commissioner after admitting 'inappropriate' humour, the first such resignation in its 40-year history.

Two AI systems, Germany's Mira and Google's Amie, matched or beat doctors on diagnosis and treatment in Nature studies, but only in simulations.

Google is copying Nvidia's playbook, using financial guarantees and circular financing, to win customers for its TPUs and loosen its grip on AI chips.

Google's AI Overviews repeatedly presented SCP Foundation horror fan-fiction as fact, Futurism found, in at least 20 cases, with no fiction disclaimer.

Three Amazon engineers say they were investigated after backing Seattle's data-centre limits. The AI build-out backlash is now bipartisan, and internal.