White House offers to trade state AI preemption for federal online safety laws in new deal with Congress
White House offers to trade state AI preemption for federal online safety laws in new deal with Congress

The White House is negotiating with key senators to bundle federal preemption of state AI laws with three online safety bills, Axios reported. Senator Marsha Blackburn is leading the effort to finalise legislative text. The package would block state AI…

India froze Starlink approvals over Iran fears, days before SpaceX’s record IPO
India froze Starlink approvals over Iran fears, days before SpaceX’s record IPO

India has effectively frozen the approvals Starlink needs to begin commercial operations in the country. Security agencies under India’s Ministry of Home Affairs withheld final clearances after SpaceX allowed Starlink access inside Iran despite not hav…

Anthropic’s CEO says he doesn’t know if Claude was used in the Iran school strike that killed 120 children
Anthropic’s CEO says he doesn’t know if Claude was used in the Iran school strike that killed 120 children

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he does not know what role his company’s AI model Claude played in a missile strike that killed an estimated 120 children at an elementary school in Minab, Iran, on February 28. In an interview on Bloomberg’s The Circuit…

Russia unbans Roblox after 63,000 children wrote letters of complaint, half saying they wanted to leave the country
Russia unbans Roblox after 63,000 children wrote letters of complaint, half saying they wanted to leave the country

Russia restored access to Roblox on Wednesday after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements, the Interfax news agency reported. The gaming platform had been blocked since December 3, cutting off an estimated 18 million monthly…

A German court says Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words, and it’s liable when they’re false
A German court says Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words, and it’s liable when they’re false

A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims its AI Overviews make, treating the AI-written summaries as Google’s own speech rather than ordinary search results. It is one of the first rulings to test who is responsible when…

Snapchat walls under-16s off from public Spotlight, making their videos friends-only
Snapchat walls under-16s off from public Spotlight, making their videos friends-only

Snapchat is restricting how its youngest users share video. From this week, Snapchatters aged 13 to 15 will get a dedicated profile where their Stories and short-form Spotlight clips are visible only to mutually accepted friends, and will no longer be …

The ECB moved to rein in Revolut’s ‘self-guided missiles’, just as a share sale values it at $115bn
The ECB moved to rein in Revolut’s ‘self-guided missiles’, just as a share sale values it at $115bn

The European Central Bank quietly moved to rein in Revolut last year, restricting Europe’s most valuable fintech from launching new products across the European Economic Area over concerns about how fast it approved them, the Financial Times reported o…

Munich startup ERC System unveils Victor, a heavy-lift cargo eVTOL, at ILA Berlin
Munich startup ERC System unveils Victor, a heavy-lift cargo eVTOL, at ILA Berlin

Munich-area startup ERC System has unveiled Victor, an uncrewed hybrid-electric cargo eVTOL designed for defence, logistics, and disaster response, at ILA Berlin 2026. The company says the aircraft can carry a 250kg payload over a range of 300km at a c…

TSMC does not rule out price rises as inflation pushes up chip manufacturing costs
TSMC does not rule out price rises as inflation pushes up chip manufacturing costs

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest chipmaker, told the BBC that inflation is pushing up its costs and did not rule out raising prices. CFO Wendell Huang said the company would not impose sudden “fourfold, fivefold” increase…

Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related
Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related

Meta removed nearly all traces of an unreleased facial recognition system from its smart glasses companion app on Friday, one day after WIRED reported that the software had been quietly embedded in an app installed on more than 50 million phones. The f…