The US Supreme Court declined to block Texas’s law forcing Apple and Google to verify users’ ages and get parental consent for minors’ app downloads.

Microsoft is routing some app features to its in-house MAI models instead of OpenAI and Anthropic, chipping away at its reliance on partners.

New Zealand denies plans to ban VPNs under its under-16 social media ban after a fierce privacy backlash, as age-check laws keep drifting toward encryption.

Meta's Muse Image rolls out inside the Meta AI chatbot, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Users can generate images of friends from public Instagram posts. Opt-out available.

Toyota's $3.6bn Texas expansion moves some Tacoma production from Mexico. Trump credits tariffs, but Toyota didn't, and it isn't leaving Mexico.

Netflix will offer 2-to-20-minute videos from Condé Nast, Hearst, BuzzFeed, and Penske brands starting August 3 in six markets. Bloomberg says viewers are abandoning shows.

Raymond James put a Street-high $800 target on SpaceX, implying $10.5tn, as it joined the Nasdaq 100. Jeremy Grantham puts the odds of a crash at 90%.

Anthropic's Claude Cowork now runs on web and mobile, letting tasks finish while your laptop is closed, as AI agents push into the whole office.

Forterra's Lancer vehicles completed 1,100 missions and 52 casualty evacuations in Ukraine. Soldiers still teleoperate them because autonomy cannot react to threats.

Scotland's SNP has voted to freeze every new datacentre, a move that could stall the Lanarkshire AI growth zone and a core pillar of the UK's AI plan.

South Korea's FuriosaAI has switched on its low-power RNGD AI accelerators at an Equinix datacentre in Lisbon, its first move into the European market.

Samsung guided to about 89.4 trillion won ($58.4bn) in Q2 operating profit, up roughly 19-fold on last year, as AI memory prices surged.