The EU issued preliminary findings accusing Facebook and Instagram of addictive design, ordering Meta to disable autoplay and infinite scroll or face fines up to $12 billion.

Apple claims OpenAI used current and former employees to steal hardware secrets as it builds an iPhone rival. Over 400 ex-Apple staff now work at OpenAI.

Meta's first Muse Image model let users generate images from public Instagram accounts by default. SAG-AFTRA, CAA, and actors pushed back. Meta pulled it in 3 days.

Johannes Heidecke is leaving OpenAI as the company merges safety and research under a new VP role. It's the latest in a long line of safety exits and team disbandments.

Beijing's Booster Robotics powered every winning team at RoboCup 2026 in South Korea. The sport's goal: beat the human World Cup champions by 2050.

CISA revealed it had to build a playbook during a live incident after a contractor exposed government credentials on GitHub. The agency has lost a third of staff.

Mark Zuckerberg confirms Meta is exploring selling AI compute, a move that would take on AWS and Azure and threaten neoclouds like CoreWeave.

Amazon-backed Beta flew the first missions of Trump's eVTOL pilot program, carrying medical cargo, a milestone that shows the flying-taxi dream is still years off.

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

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

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.