OpenAI debuted at Cannes Lions with thousands of advertisers, but its ad pricing dropped from $60 to $25 CPM in weeks. Can ChatGPT reach $100B in ads by 2030?

Patronus AI raised $50m to build simulated digital worlds that stress-test AI agents before they reach production. Investors call demand insatiable.

INSEE says a cyberattack exposed names and work contacts of about 12,800 staff. No passwords or bank details were taken, and public census data is intact.

Zalando fell as much as 20% after Germany’s BaFin opened a review of its accounts over an About You disclosure. Zalando calls it a formal, non-material issue.

Swatch is seeking $170m from Samsung over 26 smartwatch faces a London court already ruled infringed its trademarks. Samsung calls the figure exaggerated.

Malaysian customs intercepted 72 servers packed with AI chips worth $13m at KLIA, declared as computer parts and bound for re-export to another Asian country.

Samsung is expected to unveil a 1,000 trillion won ($647.5bn) decade-long investment in South Korea, with chip plants earmarked for outside Seoul.

TikTok and YouTube have deactivated about 4.7 million under-16 accounts in Indonesia after a March regulation on high-risk platforms.

Elroy Air, maker of the autonomous Chaparral cargo drone, is in advanced talks to go public via a SPAC merger valuing it at about $1bn.

Airwallex has raised $320m in a Series H at an $11bn valuation, up 38% in six months, as it pushes into AI-run financial software.

The Trump administration has asked OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6’s release, approving access customer by customer over security concerns.

Rakuten Kobo rejected 45% of titles submitted to its self-publishing platform in 2025, with most rejections blamed on low-quality AI-generated writing.