Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures (Newcomer)

A U.S. judge ruled the Pentagon’s effort to blacklist Anthropic illegal, rejecting its supply-chain risk claim. OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft and over 100 firms warned of an imminent AI-driven cyber-threat window, urging coordinated defense. Nvidia paused several AI-cloud financing deals, the UK Treasury tasked the Bank of England with advancing payment-system and digital-money innovation, Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Tahnoon invested in a 49% stake of the Trump-family crypto bank, and South Korea launched a free premium AI tool program with KT, SK Telecom and Kakao.