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.

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%.

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.

Fish Audio raised $52m for voice AI it gives away for free, charging enterprises for speed & uptime. Its 2M-voice library is the moat & the risk.

As AI agents start transacting online, payment systems built for humans cannot keep up. The x402 Foundation, backed by Visa, Mastercard, Google, and Stripe, is building a standard for ...

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.

DoorDash has FAA Part 135 certification for an in-house drone programme, DoorDash Air, though it concedes humans will still handle most deliveries.

Act Security exits stealth with $60m from Medigate's founders. The bet: AI outpaces patching, so remove the dormant cloud access flaws rely on.

Options imply a ~$190bn post-earnings swing for Microsoft, an unusually large move, as investors demand proof its heavy AI spending is paying off.

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

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.

ChipAgents, an Nvidia partner building AI agents that design and verify semiconductors, has raised $60m, taking its total to around $134m.