Apple is preparing the biggest iPad mini overhaul in years with an OLED screen and A19 Pro chip, targeting an October release amid rising component costs.

The UK drops its VPN restrictions plan after its own research found children use VPNs for privacy, not to dodge age checks. The onus shifts to platforms.

Microsoft is overhauling its security business around AI and cutting several hundred jobs, aiming to win back spending flowing to OpenAI and Anthropic.

Oracle is the front-runner to build Japan an air-gapped cloud, cut off from the internet, as Washington pushes Tokyo to counter Chinese hacking.

Hemispheric, a NeuroAI startup co-founded by a Face ID pioneer, raised $52M for Descartes, a 6B-parameter model that reads the brain non-invasively.

Israeli startup Oak has raised $60M for an AI-native identity platform that governs every user, machine, and AI agent from a single control plane.

Anthropic and Blackstone have launched Ode, a $1.5bn AI implementation firm betting the next fortune in AI is deployment, not better models.

Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday fixed a record 622 flaws, and it credits AI-powered discovery for the surge. Two zero-days were already being exploited.

Vint Cerf, a father of the internet, is joining a project to build a durable identity layer for AI agents so the web knows who stands behind them.

Nokia and Nvidia have built the first commercial AI-RAN platform, promising to double network capacity from existing spectrum, with a 2027 launch.

Hummingbird. Its data arm pays 20,000 people in 15 countries to film themselves working. Robots have no internet to learn from.

A day after New York became the first state to freeze large data centres, Trump demanded it reverse course immediately. Hochul replied within hours.