Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering 285M+ views on YouTube since November 2025  —  A documentary about Google DeepMind has become wildly popular.  Before he turned his attention to AI, the film's director learned everything from the NFL.

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models  —  Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage, who has just founded a new nonprofit institute called AVERI that is advocating …

Marc Jones / Reuters:
Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency platform mBridge, still a prototype, has processed 4,000+ cross-border transactions totaling $55.5B  —  Transactions on a new China-led digital currency platform have surged to over $55 billion, a new report shows …

Iain Martin / Forbes:
Listen Labs, whose AI tools help Microsoft and others run customer research and interviews, raised a $69M Series B led by Ribbit Capital at a $500M+ valuation  —  The San Francisco-based company, which has run more than 1 million customer interviews with its automated AI tools …

John Reynolds / Tech.eu:
Mannheim, Germany-based osapiens, a provider of ESG compliance software, raised a $100M Series C from Decarbonization Partners at a $1.1B valuation  —  The $100m Series C was funded solely by Decarbonization Partners, the joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek.