Trump will raise EU car tariffs to 25% next week, breaking the Turnberry deal. The agreement also covers chips and AI. The cars are the test.

Meta lost its first addiction trial, faces 40+ state AG suits, and bans are spreading. Zuckerberg's earnings call was about AI. No investor asked about children.

Nebius pays $643M for Eigen AI, a 20-person MIT spinout that maximises tokens per GPU. In the neocloud race, inference optimisation is the competitive edge.

Australia imports 80% of its fuel with the lowest reserves of any IEA member. The Hormuz crisis made this a national security problem. The fix is $22.7B in technology.

Seven companies now operate AI on classified Pentagon networks under "lawful operational use" terms. Anthropic, which refused to drop its safety limits, was replaced.

Founders Fund's $6B fund replaces a $4.6B predecessor spent in under a year. Average check: $600M. Portfolio: Anthropic, Anduril, SpaceX, OpenAI.

RSF's 2026 index records the worst press freedom in 25 years. Over half of all countries are rated difficult or worse. The report names Meta, X, and AI-driven disinformation as structural causes.

AI micro-dramas hit Douyin in one month. Production costs fell 90%. State subsidies fund the hubs. China's micro-drama industry is the first commercial-scale test of AI-generated content.

A Dutch foundation is suing Netflix for up to €673M. Italy already ruled its price hikes unlawful. The legal target is the generic pricing clause every streaming service uses.

Sing Tao Daily reports that Uber has acquired Hong Kong’s Fly Taxi. The deal, if confirmed, removes the main alternative metered-taxi-hailing app from the market.

McKinsey’s new report argues most companies are accelerating existing work rather than redesigning workflows around AI.

NYBCe and CZ Biohub will derive iPSC lines from cord blood's immune cells, creating shared, broadly compatible resources for cell therapy, disease modelling, and AI-driven drug development.