ShinyHunters leaked 45GB of MSG data after a missed ransom deadline, exposing biometric surveillance records and triggering a class action lawsuit.

BYD executive VP Stella Li said the company has followed all local regulations at its Szeged plant, where Hungarian police are probing toxic soil allegations.

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the developer behind VLC's 6 billion downloads, raised $5M from Lightspeed for Kyber, an SDK for controlling remote machines in real time.

Amazon MGM Studios will no longer release Artificial, a film about Altman's 2023 firing from OpenAI, despite positive test screenings and a starry cast.

John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic, a day after Shazeer left for OpenAI.

HyperLight has raised an $80mn Series C led by MediaTek to scale its thin-film lithium niobate photonics for the optical interconnects AI data centres need.

Asus listed the 2026 ROG Zephyrus G16 with an RTX 5080 at $4,799. The 2025 model with a faster RTX 5090 and 64GB of RAM sells for $200 less.

Norway will bar children aged 6 to 13 from using generative AI tools in school from late August. Teens 14-16 can use them only under teacher supervision.

Trump told Axios that Anthropic has "behaved very responsibly" and signalled he may ease restrictions on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models.

Aether AI, founded by UCSD researcher Biwei Huang, has raised $20mn to build causal world models for robots, a direct challenge to AI's scaling orthodoxy.

John Edwards has resigned as the UK's information commissioner after admitting 'inappropriate' humour, the first such resignation in its 40-year history.

Google's AI Overviews repeatedly presented SCP Foundation horror fan-fiction as fact, Futurism found, in at least 20 cases, with no fiction disclaimer.