AWS launches the Agentic Shopping Assistant, packaging Alexa for Shopping technology for other retailers. Kate Spade is the first customer, deploying an AI Gift Concierge on Bedrock.

Defence-AI startup Airis Labs has emerged from stealth with $60M in total funding, including a $31M PSG Equity-led Series B, and is moving its scaling operations to Washington DC.

Robinhood launches agentic stock trading via MCP and a virtual credit card for AI agents with 3% cashback, becoming the first major retail brokerage to hand controls to bots.

YouTube shifts from voluntary creator disclosure to automatic AI video detection, with prominent labels and permanent markers for content made with its own tools or verified by C2PA metadata.

Vincent Bolloré has formally rejected Bill Ackman’s $64bn Pershing Square offer for Universal Music Group, ending the largest music-industry take-private bid in history.

China’s $1.1bn AI and robotics investment in Serbia lands four days after the largest anti-Vučić protests in months. Brussels has yet to develop a coherent response to either.

The ECB has told eurozone banks they must tighten cyber-security in response to AI-led attack tools, in a formal Wednesday statement following weeks of private guidance.

Samsung’s 10.5%-of-profit bonus formula closes its labour dispute and creates a precedent the rest of the Korean chaebol system will be benchmarked against.

Bristol-and-Lisbon climate-tech firm Mykor has raised €4.6M to scale MykoFoam, a carbon-negative mycelium insulation panel grown from industrial residues at its Portuguese pilot plant.

Taiwanese prosecutors suspect at least one shipment of US-restricted Nvidia AI chips was smuggled to China via Japan, in Taiwan’s first public AI-chip diversion case.

China’s SAMR has fined Luxshare and Wingtech for procedural violations in their now-collapsed asset deal, signalling tighter merger enforcement.

Schaeffler and Spire Global have signed an MoU to develop sovereign-European space hardware and satellite platforms in Germany, scaling Spire’s Munich facility for defence buyers.