OpenAI has proposed giving the US government a 5% equity stake worth roughly $42.6bn, the Financial Times reports, as Sam Altman looks to ease political pressure.

AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise up to $500M at a $5bn valuation, four times its January mark, after hitting a $500M revenue run rate.

MiCA has cut Europe's 3,000 registered crypto firms to just 244 authorized providers. Barcelona-based Venga clears the bar as even Binance winds down EU services ahead of the deadline.

Alibaba admitted its platform failed to prevent 80,000 illegal pharmaceutical purchases worth over 200 million dollars between 2016 and 2024.

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.

Ottawa's Dominion Dynamics has raised CA$139M, the largest Series A in Canadian defence history, to build autonomous drones and Arctic command software.

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.

Plasma Care UVC uses far-ultraviolet light to destroy bacteria and viruses inside a vehicle cabin without posing a risk to passengers, lab tests show.

DeepSeek will double the price of its V4 AI models during peak hours from mid-July, reversing the China price war it started. Even the cheapest blinks.

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

Nearly 100 gigawatts of new data center capacity could come online by 2030. ER Steel argues the real bottleneck is not compute but construction coordination, grid access, and long-term operational ...

LayerX tricked six AI browsers, including ChatGPT Atlas, Comet and Claude, into leaking user credentials by convincing them they were playing a game.