Apple is breaking security fixes out of its annual iOS cycle and pushing them sooner, citing AI’s ability to compress the window attackers need.

Hundreds of contractors on a Meta project posed as teenagers to test how ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI handle suicide, drugs and sex, WIRED found.

Nano Banana 2 Lite generates images in four seconds for under four cents per thousand, and ships alongside a wider rollout of Gemini Omni Flash for video.

TikTok has reached a confidential settlement with a Florida teenager ahead of a July trial, following YouTube out of the second bellwether addiction case.

AWS is spending $1bn on a unit that embeds forward-deployed engineers inside customers to ship AI faster, following OpenAI, Anthropic and Palantir.

Precision Content CEO Rob Hanna argues that enterprise AI failures trace back to ungoverned documentation, not weak models, and that technical publications teams hold the missing piece.

The Supreme Court agreed to review lower court rulings that found Apple willfully defied a 2021 order on App Store fees in its battle with Epic Games.

Taiwan’s opposition KMT is proposing NT$240bn for unmanned systems days after stalling the government’s plan, in a fight with real implications for the island’s defence.

AI chip startup Etched has raised $800M backed by Jane Street and TSMC-linked VentureTech Alliance, with one billion dollars in signed sales contracts.

Schneider Electric is buying industrial-AI firm Cognite for $3.1bn in cash, folding it into Aveva to push agentic AI onto the European factory floor.

Chamath Palihapitiya has raised $135M led by Salesforce for 8090, his AI coding startup, and is stepping in as CEO for the first time since Facebook.

Anthropic's Claude Science is an AI workbench that unifies a scientist's tools and lets agents run the analysis, with a reviewer agent to check it.