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.

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.

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.

Waymo's driverless cars ran out of charge, blocked San Francisco traffic, and one drove over a lit firework and caught fire over the Fourth of July.

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.

Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony told the EU's top court Belgium's copyright law makes platforms pay creators beyond what the 2019 directive intended ...

OpenAI's $205K "subject matter expert" role aims to teach its AI Wall Street's grunt work, as it races Anthropic for lucrative finance enterprise revenue.

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.

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.

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

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.

An Oxford Internet Institute study finds AI writing tools shift the stance of social media posts, even when told not to, and can move opinion at scale.