Oracle says one AI data centre could cost it a $7bn power guarantee

Marco Rubio tells US diplomats to play down fears of a tech ‘kill switch’

Washington wants to sanction Chinese AI for ‘theft’. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says that’s backwards.

Eight NATO allies launch HALO, a plan to link military satellites into one networked mega-constellation

US lawmakers press Trump to open trade probe into EU tech rules

Brazil’s Pix becomes a trade flashpoint with the US, and the world is watching

France moves a step closer to banning under-15s from social media

The European Parliament is building its own AI to stop MEPs pasting draft laws into ChatGPT

The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet

Victoria proposes forcing social media platforms to unmask anonymous accounts accused of vilification

Common Sense Media says Google’s AI Search poses an “unacceptable risk” to students. Google cannot turn it off.

France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir’s military AI software

The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs

Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The numbers are more complicated.

Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud

An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech

An FCC plan could end the anonymous burner phone in the US

AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now

Meta will alert parents to teens’ self-harm chats with its AI

Mamdani wants NYC landlords to label the AI in their apartment photos

Google’s record EU fine won’t just punish Google. It will quietly shrink what European taxpayers owe Brussels.

A father of the internet wants to give AI agents an identity

Oracle leads the race to build Japan a secret, air-gapped cloud

Google will start carrying rival app stores inside Google Play on 22 July

Trump calls New York’s data centre pause a ‘terrible decision’. Hochul is not moving.

Amazon Leo will launch in South Africa in 2027, beating Starlink in Musk’s homeland

South Korea will give all 52 million citizens free AI access, becoming the first G20 nation to do so

CXMT prices a record $8.5bn Shanghai IPO, valuing China’s memory champion at $85bn

Anthropic’s job ads read like a threat assessment

The White House’s Gold Eagle wants to patch cyber flaws at machine speed

Delaware wants to give AI agents their own legal identity

Paramount says it will take the Warner Bros merger to the Supreme Court if states block the deal

Nintendo is pulling a console from Europe over battery rules. Meta’s glasses just got exempted from them.

Demis Hassabis wants a Wall Street-style referee for AI, with the power to hit pause

Uber lost the self-driving race. Now it wants to write the rules