Trump told Axios that Anthropic has "behaved very responsibly" and signalled he may ease restrictions on its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models.

Asus listed the 2026 ROG Zephyrus G16 with an RTX 5080 at $4,799. The 2025 model with a faster RTX 5090 and 64GB of RAM sells for $200 less.

Jeff Bezos says AI will cause a labour shortage and Sam Altman is 'delighted to be wrong' on job losses. The layoffs, and the IPO timing, complicate it.

John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, is leaving Google DeepMind to join Anthropic, a day after Shazeer left for OpenAI.

JPL's ERNEST rover covered 16 miles in 37 hours of driving during desert testing, using active suspension and reinforcement learning to navigate terrain.

Private fusion investment has crossed $13B, with 17 startups raising $100M+. But no company has yet proven commercial-scale energy generation works.

Amazon MGM Studios will no longer release Artificial, a film about Altman's 2023 firing from OpenAI, despite positive test screenings and a starry cast.

A court has preliminarily approved Sony's $7.85M settlement over claims it monopolised digital games by killing third-party game vouchers in 2019.

Norway will bar children aged 6 to 13 from using generative AI tools in school from late August. Teens 14-16 can use them only under teacher supervision.

Aether AI, founded by UCSD researcher Biwei Huang, has raised $20mn to build causal world models for robots, a direct challenge to AI's scaling orthodoxy.

HyperLight has raised an $80mn Series C led by MediaTek to scale its thin-film lithium niobate photonics for the optical interconnects AI data centres need.

France has mobilised another €13bn through its Tibi initiative, the insurer-backed model Europe keeps studying, now aimed at funding scale-ups continent-wide.