Apple is breaking security fixes out of its annual iOS cycle and pushing them sooner, citing AI’s ability to compress the window attackers need.

Hundreds of contractors on a Meta project posed as teenagers to test how ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI handle suicide, drugs and sex, WIRED found.

TikTok has reached a confidential settlement with a Florida teenager ahead of a July trial, following YouTube out of the second bellwether addiction case.

Nano Banana 2 Lite generates images in four seconds for under four cents per thousand, and ships alongside a wider rollout of Gemini Omni Flash for video.

AWS is spending $1bn on a unit that embeds forward-deployed engineers inside customers to ship AI faster, following OpenAI, Anthropic and Palantir.

Taiwan’s opposition KMT is proposing NT$240bn for unmanned systems days after stalling the government’s plan, in a fight with real implications for the island’s defence.

The Supreme Court agreed to review lower court rulings that found Apple willfully defied a 2021 order on App Store fees in its battle with Epic Games.

AI chip startup Etched has raised $800M backed by Jane Street and TSMC-linked VentureTech Alliance, with one billion dollars in signed sales contracts.

Schneider Electric is buying industrial-AI firm Cognite for $3.1bn in cash, folding it into Aveva to push agentic AI onto the European factory floor.

Anthropic's Claude Science is an AI workbench that unifies a scientist's tools and lets agents run the analysis, with a reviewer agent to check it.

Chamath Palihapitiya has raised $135M led by Salesforce for 8090, his AI coding startup, and is stepping in as CEO for the first time since Facebook.

Opus 4.8 agentic performance at a mid-tier price, from $2/$10 per million tokens until August 31. Here's what is new.