Liberty Bank, the oldest mutual bank in the US with $9 billion in assets, launched an AI Center of Excellence with enterprise AI partner Flare AI.

Architect Labs raised a $24mn seed led by Kindred Ventures to build an AI that designs & verifies custom chips, taking on Broadcom & Marvell.

The startup rejected OpenAI's $500M bid for its gaming video data. Now it's raising $300M at a $2B valuation to train AI agents on 2 billion video game clips per year.

Seattle's Gradial has raised a $65mn Series C led by Insight Partners at a $675mn valuation, deploying AI agents across enterprise marketing tools.

UPS detailed AI initiatives including a digital twin of its global network, agentic control towers for customers, and RFID-powered tracking across all US vehicles.

BMW cut its car division margin forecast to as low as 1%. Chinese brands now hold nearly 10% of Europe's car market while crushing European profits in China.

Apple will allow alternative app marketplaces and third-party payments in Brazil starting with iOS 26.5, following a CADE antitrust settlement. The changes mirror EU concessions.

The European Commission will unveil preliminary findings next week that AWS and Azure meet the DMA gatekeeper threshold. Interoperability and lock-in curbs follow.

Ford Energy will manufacture grid-scale LFP battery systems at a repurposed Kentucky plant, with first deliveries in late 2027. EDF has signed a five-year deal for up to 20 GWh.

In three days Adobe put an AI agent in Photoshop, struck a Disney Firefly deal, launched a tool to track brands in ChatGPT, and teamed with LinkedIn.

Meta's 6,500-person Applied AI unit is in open revolt, with elite engineers drafted to label data and even the CTO calling the reorg 'atrocious'.

Yann LeCun called Musk's xAI a 'failure' and warned AI labs face a 'big bubble explosion' unless they raise prices, while raising $1bn for his own bet.