Liberty Bank, the oldest mutual bank in the US with $9 billion in assets, launched an AI Center of Excellence with enterprise AI partner Flare AI.

The startup rejected OpenAI's $500M bid for its gaming video data. Now it's raising $300M at a $2B valuation to train AI agents on 2 billion video game clips per year.

Seattle's Gradial has raised a $65mn Series C led by Insight Partners at a $675mn valuation, deploying AI agents across enterprise marketing tools.

UPS detailed AI initiatives including a digital twin of its global network, agentic control towers for customers, and RFID-powered tracking across all US vehicles.

BMW cut its car division margin forecast to as low as 1%. Chinese brands now hold nearly 10% of Europe's car market while crushing European profits in China.

Apple will allow alternative app marketplaces and third-party payments in Brazil starting with iOS 26.5, following a CADE antitrust settlement. The changes mirror EU concessions.

Ford Energy will manufacture grid-scale LFP battery systems at a repurposed Kentucky plant, with first deliveries in late 2027. EDF has signed a five-year deal for up to 20 GWh.

Yann LeCun called Musk's xAI a 'failure' and warned AI labs face a 'big bubble explosion' unless they raise prices, while raising $1bn for his own bet.

The European Commission will unveil preliminary findings next week that AWS and Azure meet the DMA gatekeeper threshold. Interoperability and lock-in curbs follow.

Meta's 6,500-person Applied AI unit is in open revolt, with elite engineers drafted to label data and even the CTO calling the reorg 'atrocious'.

The former PayPal CFO and Sequoia steward joins SpaceX's board as an independent director, though his ties to Musk and Sequoia's $2 billion stake complicate that label.

Verse raised a $54mn Series B led by Bessemer, with Nvidia among backers, to help AI data centres skip the grid queue using on-site batteries.