Jeff Bezos is raising ~$10bn for Blue Origin at a $130bn valuation, ending 26 years of self-funding as the space race outgrows even his wealth.

The FTC's John Deere settlement is the biggest US right-to-repair win yet, a warning about software lock-in in every device you own.

Nikesh Arora says AI token costs need to drop as much as 90% for mass enterprise adoption, calling OpenAI's 54% efficiency gain just "a good start." ...

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

Block will pay $45m to 46 US states over Cash App fraud handling, as state regulators move into ground the weakened CFPB has vacated.

AI super PACs backed by OpenAI and a16z are flooding the 2026 midterms to block state AI rules and punish lawmakers who push them.

At RAISE, AMD's Mark Papermaster says agentic AI leans harder on CPUs, not just GPUs, and it explains AMD's run toward a trillion-dollar value.

Ollama has raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures, taking total funding to $88M, as its open-model runner reaches nearly 9 million developers.

Omdia says the PC market fell 3.6% in Q2 2026 and sub-$400 phone shipments will drop 22%, as AI's hunger for memory chips pushes device prices up.

The EU's second-phase vehicle safety rules mandate driver-attention cameras and pedestrian-detecting brakes on all new cars and vans from 7 July 2026.

The NYT, Daily News, and others accuse OpenAI of hiding evidence in their copyright suit, asking a judge for sanctions in a case that could reshape journalism.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 is public after a Trump administration review, the first US frontier model cleared for release through a government access process.