Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform with Open USD support, letting banks issue and settle stablecoins, sending Circle shares down roughly six percent.

The EU has ordered Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share its search data with competitors under the Digital Markets Act.

Google is rebranding NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook, expanding its code execution features to Pro subscribers and bringing notebooks into AI Mode in Search.

Bunkerhill Health raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, taking its total to $55M, to put healthcare AI agents to work inside hospitals.

Fireworks raised $1.5bn at a $17.5bn valuation, betting every company will build its own specialized intelligence instead of renting from a big lab.

Xpeng launched the L03 coupe-SUV across 65 markets with in-house Turing AI chips and a second-generation autonomous driving system on every trim.

An AI brain implant called the double neural bypass restored movement and touch to a paralysed man, and the gains lasted years, per Nature Medicine.

Sable raised $45 million from Sequoia and 8VC to build Aidan, an AI employee that runs live product demos and handles sales for companies like Notion.

SWISSto12, a rare profitable satellite maker, raised a $70M Series C as Europe races to own its sovereign space infrastructure.

Israeli startup Oak has raised $60M for an AI-native identity platform that governs every user, machine, and AI agent from a single control plane.

Anthropic and Blackstone have launched Ode, a $1.5bn AI implementation firm betting the next fortune in AI is deployment, not better models.

Apple is preparing the biggest iPad mini overhaul in years with an OLED screen and A19 Pro chip, targeting an October release amid rising component costs.