Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

A U.S. judge blocked the Pentagon’s attempt to blacklist Anthropic, ruling the supply-chain risk label illegal. Meta began testing robots for data-center tasks. Andreessen Horowitz launched a $1.1 billion “Machine Age” AI-hardware fund. The UK Treasury ordered the Bank of England to boost payment-system innovation for stable-coin leadership. South Korea announced a free, unlimited-token AI service backed by KT, SK Telecom and Kakao. Advent and Stripe withdrew their $53 billion PayPal acquisition bid, and tech firms hired advisers ahead of possible Democratic investigations.