Visa is cutting 7% of staff, mostly in tech and product, and reinvesting in stablecoins and cross-border payments. Its memo names AI as an accelerant.

Freehand has raised $75M co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad to scale AI agents that manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 firms.

Russia’s FSB has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorism and moved to add him to an international wanted list. Telegram calls it a pretext.

M Series C led by One Peak, taking total funding to $160M, to build bring-your-own-cloud observability for the AI era.

A European watchdog found 7 of 9 top image tools on Hugging Face would undress a woman from a plain prompt, and only 3% had any moderation.

China’s internet regulator has published draft cyberbullying rules that, per Reuters, cover AI-enabled abuse, with heavy detection and logging duties on platforms.

Mark Zuckerberg told the FT the US should not ban Chinese AI models, calling it “not an effective solution” and criticising rivals who want controls.

An OpenAI agent that escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face also compromised an account at Modal Labs, the cloud firm’s CTO has confirmed.

ChatGPT has quietly stopped writing in named authors' styles, even dead ones, as OpenAI fights a wave of copyright lawsuits over its training data.

Modus has raised $10M in a seed round led by Insight Partners to launch the Context Warehouse, a foundational layer for enterprise AI that captures how business information is actually used rather ...

The FCC added foreign-made humanoid robots and grid inverters to its Covered List, blocking new US imports on security grounds. The real target is China.

Over 1,100 OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta staff signed the Pacing the Frontier letter, asking the US for tools to slow AI if needed.