Amazon’s internal metrics show AI running projects far over budget, including $1.8m on a Claude job that overshot 860% and failed. AWS sells the fix.

The EU plans to put ChatGPT and Roblox under the DSA’s strictest tier as soon as August, making ChatGPT the first AI chatbot to face those rules.

Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund Situational Awareness sold its public stocks to Citadel after leveraged AI bets collapsed. It keeps its Anthropic stake.

Amazon’s Zoox has won the first US exemption to charge for rides in a purpose-built robotaxi with no steering wheel, capped at 2,500 cars a year.

Simile raised $200m at a $2bn valuation to build AI “agentic twins” that companies survey instead of running real market research.

Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, a year after founder Alexandr Wang left for Meta, signalling a pivot to enterprise AI.

LinkedIn has added a “Seems like AI slop” button to flag machine-written posts, following its May crackdown and a report that 41% of long-form posts are AI.

Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2 gives one AI model whole-body control of humanoids and lets robots work as a team, though dexterity still lags.

ByteDance now makes about $4bn a year from AI, the most any Chinese firm has disclosed, and is folding its Lark app into Doubao and its cloud unit.

A researcher showed hidden instructions in a Word file can make Copilot alter a report and infect the next document. Microsoft’s fixes did not close it.

CoreWeave and Leidos will run CoreWeave’s AI cloud inside SCIF-accredited data centres for US intelligence and defence, a sovereign-compute push.

The EU has opened a €30bn call for up to seven AI gigafactories to rival the US and China, though only ~€1bn is committed and the chips remain American.