Password has acquired Israeli startup Apono, reportedly for $250m to $300m, to govern what humans, machines and AI agents can access inside company systems.

SoftBank and OpenAI launch 'Patching as a Service', an OpenAI-powered tool to find & fix cyber vulnerabilities at Japan's critical-infrastructure firms.

SailPoint plans to buy Tel Aviv's Entro, reportedly for about $200m, to add non-human identity discovery to its Agentic Fabric platform.

SpaceX rose more than 10% on Tuesday, lifting its value near $2.8tn and past Amazon, days after the largest IPO in history.

PM Sebastien Lecornu has pledged €655m for AI, including one sovereign chatbot for roughly a million French state employees.

The DGSI will replace Palantir’s data tools with ChapsVision’s ArgonOS, six months after renewing the American firm’s contract.

AI-piloted ‘loyal wingman’ drones dominated the Berlin airshow as Airbus, Boeing, Helsing, and General Atomics pitched Europe’s militaries.

The FT reports OpenAI spent $34bn in 2025 against $13bn revenue, as it readies a confidential IPO targeting a $1tn valuation.

Beijing is expanding its digital-yuan network for cross-border use, the latest step in moving the e-CNY beyond domestic retail.

Upstage CEO Sung Kim says the US order restricting Anthropic’s top models proves South Korea needs its own sovereign AI it cannot be cut off from.

India has temporarily blocked Telegram until 22 June, citing channels selling fraudulent access to a NEET-UG re-exam, with a separate order to disable message editing.

DeepSeek has closed its first outside funding, over $7bn, with founder Liang Wenfeng putting in a controlling share and Tencent and CATL as top backers.