OpenAI open-sourced its Codex Security CLI to scan code for bugs, but kept the scanner gated. An AppSec land grab, and a shot at Anthropic’s Claude Security.

Audi’s Q9 is a petrol SUV built for US tastes, launched as its EV bet stalls, tariffs punish its all-imported range, and workers protest plant-closure threats.

ChatGPT is about to reach 1 billion weekly active users, one of the fastest apps ever, but seven months after OpenAI hoped to hit the mark.

Cyera is buying Oasis Security for ~$1bn to govern the “non-human identities” AI agents use to reach company data, the biggest AI-agent-security deal yet.

AI is suing to strike down Minnesota’s first-of-its-kind ‘nudify’ ban, arguing the First Amendment protects the tools. It does so amid a Grok CSAM class action.

BuzzFeed laid off about 180 people, a third of its staff, in owner Byron Allen’s first big cut. Its AI turnaround bet has not reversed the decline.

Runlayer says it let Rippling trial its AI product for a year, then Rippling built “almost a 1 to 1 copy.” Its lawsuit is a warning for AI-infra startups.

Shein disclosed an undisclosed FTC consumer-protection probe in its Hong Kong IPO filing. The agency polices ‘dark patterns’. The tricks Shein’s app runs on.

In one day, the Trump administration moved to exempt data-centre power plants from acid-rain rules and rocket launches from environmental review.

Apple briefly touched a $5tn valuation, the second company ever, as investors flee the AI capex bonfire into the one giant that sat the race out.

Bay and three former executives will pay nearly $56m to the couple they harassed with cockroaches and a bloody pig mask. The bigger price: no NDA.

Cursor’s price hikes push enterprises to Claude Code. But firms are bypassing both with open-source harnesses that cut AI coding bills up to 97%.