Five of Europe’s biggest companies just bought compute Mistral has not built

Trump’s drone tariffs reach 100%, and Europe gets capped at 15%

France’s under-15 social media ban is struck down two weeks before it starts

Flock Safety cuts data retention to seven days after dozens of police abuse cases

Private US companies can now run cyber operations abroad. State-backed hackers are excluded

Europe’s ‘Made in EU’ rules start at 5%, and they do not mention software

Microsoft told Google it was overreacting in 2010. It has spent five years quietly leaving China

Volkswagen can build a $17,175 car. Just not in Europe

An AI-written article needs no label. Your proofread email gets one

Europe’s drought is shutting down nuclear reactors

A Pentagon memo tells staff to spend $244m with Palantir. Its subject line is ‘Funding Palantir’

A billion-dollar game deleted a character in 8 days. Then it had the worst month of its life

President Donald Trump signs memo letting US agencies hack transnational crime groups abroad

Tesla recalls 20,349 cars after NHTSA rejects its headlight defence

Tesla emptied its share of California’s new EV rebate in five days

House Democrats want answers from OpenAI and Anthropic on their rogue AI agents

OpenAI is hiring a power trader, because electricity is now a position on its books

House Democrats want AI CEOs under oath. Only Mike Johnson can make it happen.

The Ninth Circuit let 2,400 addiction lawsuits proceed without touching Section 230

Meta is giving $1bn to data centre towns. Its proof is a tax from 1968

The FCC wants to ban DJI drones it already approved. LiDAR and thermal cameras are now “military-grade.”

Europe’s telecom chiefs demand EU powers to block child-abuse content

Data-centre bans top 500 as New York and Texas join the pushback

Singapore’s PM promises AI will lift workers, not leave them behind

Myspace wants to sell you a feed without an algorithm. Brussels is about to make that mandatory anyway.

Flock pitched turning 350,000 Uber and Lyft drivers into a roaming surveillance network

Hong Kong educators want a social media ban for under-16s. The government says it has no plans to legislate.

China’s new AI bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s running out of Chinese-language training data.

A California judge just called your feed a mirror, not free speech

The US is mapping how China rents the Nvidia chips it cannot buy

Meta invokes Section 230 to kill a fake-investment-ad lawsuit

‘Access versus catastrophe’: Anthropic reopens biology on its top model

‘Data centres could be bigger than oil’: Trump’s pitch to Texas

‘The governance does not exist’: AI just designed 16 viruses from scratch

Trump slaps tariffs and price floors on polysilicon to counter China