The EU issued preliminary findings accusing Facebook and Instagram of addictive design, ordering Meta to disable autoplay and infinite scroll or face fines up to $12 billion.

Johannes Heidecke is leaving OpenAI as the company merges safety and research under a new VP role. It's the latest in a long line of safety exits and team disbandments.

Apple claims OpenAI used current and former employees to steal hardware secrets as it builds an iPhone rival. Over 400 ex-Apple staff now work at OpenAI.

CISA revealed it had to build a playbook during a live incident after a contractor exposed government credentials on GitHub. The agency has lost a third of staff.

Meta's first Muse Image model let users generate images from public Instagram accounts by default. SAG-AFTRA, CAA, and actors pushed back. Meta pulled it in 3 days.

Munich's QuantumDiamonds raised €91M to scale its diamond-based chip inspection tech, becoming the first startup to win EU Chips Act manufacturing money.

Anthropic's new Jacobian lens reads the unspoken thoughts in Claude's hidden 'workspace', catching the model plan blackmail before it types a word.

Britain's new £2bn AI 'Combat Laboratory' will train 60,000 soldiers a year. A US firm leads it, and Germany's Rheinmetall takes nearly half.

Senator Ed Markey has unveiled an 'AI accountability agenda' of bills targeting data centres, biased algorithms, chatbots and workplace surveillance.

UC San Diego surgeons used two teleoperated humanoid robots to remove gallbladders from live pigs, the first time such machines have operated live.

An economics professor at Brown University suspects most of his class cheated with AI, and he has the numbers to make the case. Roberto Serrano watched his take-home midterm average hit 96 out of 100.

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle have doubled their debt to $350bn to build AI, and are now crowding into European bond markets, ahead of France.