An interagency panel approved adding DeepSeek, CXMT and 100-plus Chinese firms to the US Entity List. The Trump administration has held off, to avoid friction with Beijing.

Days after the US cut foreign access to Anthropic’s top models, G7 representatives raised a ‘trusted partners’ scheme with Washington at Evian.

OpenAI spent $3.7bn in Q1 2026, more than half its $5.7bn revenue, as both figures tripled year on year, per The Information. It holds $73bn in cash.

Intel says the next iteration of its 18A process has entered risk production, claiming a 9% performance gain, as it works to win external foundry customers.

Telegram has gone to the Delhi High Court over a government order blocking it until 22 June, tied to alleged cheating on India’s NEET-UG medical exam.

Melbourne healthtech Everlab has raised an oversubscribed AU$65m Series A led by Airtree, funding a UK launch and a push into preventative care.

FulcrumSec says it took 1.3TB from Novo Nordisk and demanded $25m. The Ozempic maker confirmed a breach and refused to pay.

The G7 in Evian and VivaTech in Paris open this week with European AI sovereignty the obsession, days after the US tightened access to Anthropic’s top models.

ChatGPT just hit 1 billion users, but Sensor Tower says Claude earns 1.5x more revenue per user, $2.76 versus $1.74, and converts more to paying plans.

Canada's Nuvei is buying Payoneer for $2.75bn in an all-cash take-private, betting a full-stack payments giant can challenge Stripe and Adyen by 2027.

Neuron Soundware's Sound Shield uses AI-powered microphones costing €100-150 each to detect drones acoustically, pitched as a cheap alternative to radar.

Zimperium's zLabs found Rokarolla, an Android banking trojan with 137 commands that steals PINs, intercepts SMS, hijacks crypto payments, and kills Play Protect.