The EU's deregulation drive is weakening the GDPR and delaying the AI Act, yet industry says it's too slow and digital-rights groups say it goes too far.

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle have doubled their debt to $350bn to build AI, and are now crowding into European bond markets, ahead of France.

Britain's new £2bn AI 'Combat Laboratory' will train 60,000 soldiers a year. A US firm leads it, and Germany's Rheinmetall takes nearly half.

MiniMax is raising up to $2bn after an 80% crash, while founder Yan Junjie vows no salary until AGI and pledges 5% of his shares to staff and open source.

Anwar Ibrahim's government will soon deploy PMX AI, an agentic avatar trained on his speeches that talks like him and walks citizens through gov services.

Anthropic's new Jacobian lens reads the unspoken thoughts in Claude's hidden 'workspace', catching the model plan blackmail before it types a word.

Mercor is in talks to double to a $20bn valuation and has bought Deeptune, an AI-training startup its own CEO backed. The footnotes are the story.

OpenAI and Google confirmed they supply advanced AI to Singapore units of Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, exposing a gap in US export controls.

China caught a Long March-10B booster in a net at sea, its first reusable-rocket recovery. It joins SpaceX and Blue Origin, but trails badly.

X's NEO home robot has new tendon-driven hands with 25 degrees of freedom and tactile skin. Feeling a glass slip is easy; real chores are not.

Senator Ed Markey has unveiled an 'AI accountability agenda' of bills targeting data centres, biased algorithms, chatbots and workplace surveillance.

The UK has named Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle its first "critical third parties", putting the four clouds under financial oversight from 13 July.