Florida’s attorney general sued TikTok, alleging it broke the state’s under-16 social-media law and misled parents, the first big enforcement action under HB 3.

Upstage CEO Sung Kim says the US order restricting Anthropic’s top models proves South Korea needs its own sovereign AI it cannot be cut off from.

Optiak, founded by DeepMind, Amazon and Stripe alumni, has raised €4m pre-seed led by Market One Capital to sit between enterprise AI apps and the models behind them.

Paris venture studio Rocapine has raised a $13m Series A led by Educapital, after reaching $6m ARR in nine months with wellness apps built to curb screen time.

Canada's Bill C-36 would replace PIPEDA, restrict surveillance pricing, treat children's data as sensitive, and create a regulator with C$25M fine power.

US District Judge Rita Lin dismissed xAI's trade secret lawsuit with prejudice, the second time in four weeks a court has sided with OpenAI over Elon Musk.

Go Inc. starts trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after raising ¥88.6 billion in Japan's largest 2026 IPO, backed by Goldman Sachs and BlackRock.

SoftBank jumped 10%, SK Hynix 6.4%, and Samsung 4.5% as Asian markets rallied on the Iran-US peace agreement, with the Nikkei topping 69,000.

A China-linked group backdoored REDCap servers at US and Canadian medical and military research institutions, then used Google Workspace to exfiltrate email.

Varonis chained three bugs in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search into a one-click data theft path that bypassed phishing filters and CSP protections.

Xiaomi unveiled a home robotic charging arm for its EVs that auto-plugs and unplugs without owner intervention. It targets Q4 2026 retail launch in China.

Tencent-backed Enflame won approval to raise about 6 billion yuan ($888m) on Shanghai's STAR board, the last of China's four big AI chipmakers to list.