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.

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.

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.

Amazon-backed Beta flew the first missions of Trump's eVTOL pilot program, carrying medical cargo, a milestone that shows the flying-taxi dream is still years off.

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

OpenAI and Google confirmed they supply advanced AI to Singapore units of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, exposing a gap in US export controls.

Mark Zuckerberg confirms Meta is exploring selling AI compute, a move that would take on AWS and Azure and threaten neoclouds like CoreWeave.

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

Anwar Ibrahim's government will soon deploy PMX AI, an agentic avatar trained on his speeches that talks like him and walks citizens through gov services.

Ollama has raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures, taking total funding to $88M, as its open-model runner reaches nearly 9 million developers.

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.