Meta has agreed to pay up to $18bn to settle claims brought by 29 US states alleging that its social media platforms harmed children and were deliberately designed to encourage addictive use.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825m, about $966m, over the use of automated systems to suspend or deactivate driver accounts without adequately informing those affected.

Cyber insurers are reviewing their policies as autonomous AI agents raise difficult questions about what should be covered, according to a recent report by Reuters.

Apple has unveiled two new processors, the M5 Ultra and M6, as it steps up the computing power available for artificial intelligence and other demanding workloads on its Mac computers.

Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, its latest artificial intelligence video-generation model, as the Chinese technology group increases investment in AI.

Google has expanded its Gemini Enterprise artificial intelligence platform with tools designed specifically for lawyers and law firms.

Brazil’s data protection authority, ANPD, has fined ByteDance 153.8 million reais ($29.81 million) for allegedly violating the country’s General Data Protection Law. According to a report by Reuters, the decision was published in the official gazette on Tuesday.

Bengaluru-based drone startup Airbound has raised $37m in a Series A funding round as it seeks to make aerial delivery more competitive with road transport.

Spotify has launched Playlist Notes, a new feature that allows users and the streaming service’s editors to add explanations and context to items included in playlists.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Monday his party will introduce a bill in Parliament that would ban children under 16 from using social media.

Xiaomi unveiled its in-house Xring O3, O100, and D100 processors manufactured by TSMC for smartphones, AI workloads, and autonomous driving.

GhushSite is tracking what Bangladeshis say when they are asked to pay bribes.

Nvidia is in discussions to invest in Perplexity as part of an equity funding round that would value the AI startup at more than $30 billion, The Information recently reported.

AI startup Hugging Face, which hosts open-source large language models and datasets, has been exploring a potential sale that could value the company at $13 billion or more, according to a Business Insider report.

India is set to introduce tokenised corporate bonds next month, as it trials blockchain technology for instant settlement of bond trades, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said to Reuters on Monday.

Scientists at laboratories across the United States and Australia are growing miniature human brains from stem cells and training them to perform computing task.

A hacker group identifying itself as "madarax" has advertised what it claims are the CVs of six million Bangladeshi jobseekers for sale on the dark web, saying the data came from recruitment platform Bdjobs.

Some users of xAI's Grok chatbot have reported receiving streams of apparently meaningless words instead of normal answers, prompting the company to acknowledge a temporary generation problem.

Alibaba has announced plans to raise about HK$80bn ($10.2bn) through a share placement in Hong Kong to finance further investment in artificial intelligence.

E-ticketing has been introduced on Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation’s women-only “Pink Bus” service, with POS-based ticketing now available on 14 buses operating in Dhaka, Chattogram and Bogura.