BuzzFeed laid off about 180 people, a third of its staff, in owner Byron Allen’s first big cut. Its AI turnaround bet has not reversed the decline.

Shein disclosed an undisclosed FTC consumer-protection probe in its Hong Kong IPO filing. The agency polices ‘dark patterns’. The tricks Shein’s app runs on.

Runlayer says it let Rippling trial its AI product for a year, then Rippling built “almost a 1 to 1 copy.” Its lawsuit is a warning for AI-infra startups.

Bay and three former executives will pay nearly $56m to the couple they harassed with cockroaches and a bloody pig mask. The bigger price: no NDA.

NextEra and Brookfield plan a Kentucky data-centre campus worth up to $100bn, Bloomberg reports, pairing the largest US utility with a $100bn AI fund.

PayPal met Stripe’s $53bn bid with a Q2 earnings beat and a message: it is open to a deal, but not at $60.50 a share. One analyst pegs it nearer $70.

Fish Audio raised $52m for voice AI it gives away for free, charging enterprises for speed & uptime. Its 2M-voice library is the moat & the risk.

Apple briefly touched a $5tn valuation, the second company ever, as investors flee the AI capex bonfire into the one giant that sat the race out.

In one day, the Trump administration moved to exempt data-centre power plants from acid-rain rules and rocket launches from environmental review.

As AI agents start transacting online, payment systems built for humans cannot keep up. The x402 Foundation, backed by Visa, Mastercard, Google, and Stripe, is building a standard for ...

DoorDash has FAA Part 135 certification for an in-house drone programme, DoorDash Air, though it concedes humans will still handle most deliveries.

Cursor’s price hikes push enterprises to Claude Code. But firms are bypassing both with open-source harnesses that cut AI coding bills up to 97%.