The EU issued preliminary findings accusing Facebook and Instagram of addictive design, ordering Meta to disable autoplay and infinite scroll or face fines up to $12 billion.

Apple claims OpenAI used current and former employees to steal hardware secrets as it builds an iPhone rival. Over 400 ex-Apple staff now work at OpenAI.

Johannes Heidecke is leaving OpenAI as the company merges safety and research under a new VP role. It's the latest in a long line of safety exits and team disbandments.

CISA revealed it had to build a playbook during a live incident after a contractor exposed government credentials on GitHub. The agency has lost a third of staff.

Meta's first Muse Image model let users generate images from public Instagram accounts by default. SAG-AFTRA, CAA, and actors pushed back. Meta pulled it in 3 days.

Volkswagen will cut its model lineup by half and shrink capacity, but gave no word on the reported 100,000 job cuts and four German plant closures.

AI super PACs backed by OpenAI and a16z are flooding the 2026 midterms to block state AI rules and punish lawmakers who push them.

UC San Diego surgeons used two teleoperated humanoid robots to remove gallbladders from live pigs, the first time such machines have operated live.

Senator Ed Markey has unveiled an 'AI accountability agenda' of bills targeting data centres, biased algorithms, chatbots and workplace surveillance.

Anthropic's new Jacobian lens reads the unspoken thoughts in Claude's hidden 'workspace', catching the model plan blackmail before it types a word.

MiniMax is raising up to $2bn after an 80% crash, while founder Yan Junjie vows no salary until AGI and pledges 5% of his shares to staff and open source.

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle have doubled their debt to $350bn to build AI, and are now crowding into European bond markets, ahead of France.