Meta's Muse Image rolls out inside the Meta AI chatbot, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Users can generate images of friends from public Instagram posts. Opt-out available.

Microsoft is routing some app features to its in-house MAI models instead of OpenAI and Anthropic, chipping away at its reliance on partners.

Netflix will offer 2-to-20-minute videos from Condé Nast, Hearst, BuzzFeed, and Penske brands starting August 3 in six markets. Bloomberg says viewers are abandoning shows.

Toyota's $3.6bn Texas expansion moves some Tacoma production from Mexico. Trump credits tariffs, but Toyota didn't, and it isn't leaving Mexico.

Raymond James put a Street-high $800 target on SpaceX, implying $10.5tn, as it joined the Nasdaq 100. Jeremy Grantham puts the odds of a crash at 90%.

Scotland's SNP has voted to freeze every new datacentre, a move that could stall the Lanarkshire AI growth zone and a core pillar of the UK's AI plan.

Anthropic's Claude Cowork now runs on web and mobile, letting tasks finish while your laptop is closed, as AI agents push into the whole office.

Forterra's Lancer vehicles completed 1,100 missions and 52 casualty evacuations in Ukraine. Soldiers still teleoperate them because autonomy cannot react to threats.

Geothermal startup Quaise Energy has raised a $134M first close of Series B, led by Prelude Ventures, to drill superhot rock with millimetre-wave beams.

Eight victims of Greece’s Predatorgate scandal are suing spyware maker Intellexa and 13 individuals for €1 million each over phone hacks in 2020–21.

South Korea's FuriosaAI has switched on its low-power RNGD AI accelerators at an Equinix datacentre in Lisbon, its first move into the European market.

An Oxford Internet Institute study finds AI writing tools shift the stance of social media posts, even when told not to, and can move opinion at scale.