Henna Virkkunen and Tim Cook held a video call on 30 June about Apple, the DMA, and a Siri AI launch still blocked on EU iPhones.

The UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI says two countries hold 90% of leading compute, and the window to govern AI is closing.

Lime priced its Nasdaq IPO at $25 a share, the midpoint of its range, raising roughly $174m and valuing the scooter firm near $1.7bn.

Singapore’s OCBC plans to raise annual technology spending to more than $771mn, per Bloomberg, as CEO Tan Teck Long pushes AI, data and digital deeper.

A 140-strong consortium including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase has launched Open USD, a shared-governance stablecoin aimed at Circle and Tether.

TikTok is weighing roughly 300 redundancies at its Dublin base, around 10% of local staff, a year after a similarly sized round.

A US judge refused to toss claims from 29 states that Meta addicted children, and handed the states an early win on child-privacy law.

Vimeo owner Bending Spoons and its backers raised $1.68bn, pricing shares at $29 above range, in one of Europe’s biggest listings of the year.

Microsoft is preparing to cut under 2.5% of its staff as soon as next week, hitting sales, consulting, and Xbox, Business Insider reports.

Korea's competition watchdog says Google leaned on game developers to favour Play, flagging a possible fine near $547m.

June PMI data shows the AI boom lifting factories from China to Japan, offsetting the drag from a Middle East conflict pushing up costs.

The US Commerce Department has lifted export controls on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, and access begins returning on 1 July.