WiseTech founder Richard White denies any involvement in human trafficking after reports of a police probe into a visa-for-sex claim. Shares fell sharply.

Tencent is in talks to sell minority stakes in Japanese game studios, including Tokyo-listed Marvelous, sometimes back to founders and at a loss, Bloomberg reports.

Prosus has launched ToqanClaw, a no-code platform that builds business apps from a conversation, bringing OpenClaw-style tools to 5m+ merchants.

A US judge ruled Workday must face claims its AI hiring software allegedly screened out applicants in ways that broke California law and a federal disability ban.

A UN University report warns AI’s carbon, water and land footprint is soaring, as Antonio Guterres presses AI firms to disclose costs and switch to clean power.

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son sees little merit in orbital data centres, the idea Elon Musk has championed, and says the AI race will be won by compute on Earth.

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has warned that frontier AI capable of supercharging cyberattacks is months, not years, from public release.

IBM has joined OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program and launched an AI application-security service that hunts software vulnerabilities faster.

California drivers have sued BP, Walmart, 7-Eleven and three other chains, alleging an AI pricing tool was used to coordinate higher petrol prices.

Meta has paused its Model Capability Initiative, which tracks employee mouse movements and keystrokes for AI training, after sensitive data was left exposed.

Trump signed two executive orders on quantum computing, targeting a research-grade machine by 2028 and $2bn in grants across nine firms for government equity.

Cloudflare, Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft are developing PACT, a privacy-preserving protocol to verify legitimate web traffic without tracking users.