The EU keeps Apple's AI Siri out of a 450-million-person market and orders Meta to open WhatsApp to rival chatbots. Anthropic and OpenAI turn frontier cyber models into a members-only club. The chip world splits into two stacks. An autonomous drone boat pulls a downed US crew out of the water in a live fight with Iran. And UK doctors warn they're about to become the liability sink for machines they didn't build.

• Brussels as the world's AI rule-setter: Apple's Siri exemption denied, Meta's WhatsApp forced open
• Selective access: Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, OpenAI's trusted-access tier, and the new private gatekeepers of cyber capability
• China's $295B Huawei-sourced buildout and Taiwan weighing a full chip cutoff
• Autonomous warfare goes operational off the coast of Iran
• Who pays when the AI gets it wrong: the NHS liability gap and the Palantir review