Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700+ fraud cases since 2024  —  Taiwan's interior ministry said on Thursday it would suspend access to Instagram-like Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu for one year …

Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal:
The EU expects to launch a formal bidding process for its AI gigafactories in early 2026 and close it in summer 2026, as the bloc seeks to catch up with the US  —  The bloc has so far struggled in the AI race, lagging behind the U.S. both on innovation and financing

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
AI legal software startup Harvey raised $160M led by a16z at an $8B valuation, up from $3B after raising $300M in February, taking its funding in 2025 to $760M  —  The start-up is now valued at about $8 billion as it pushes to add new customers, including those outside law firms.

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Yann LeCun says Meta will not back his unnamed AI startup, which will focus on advanced machine intelligence and world models, and hints it will be Paris-based  —  Yann LeCun, the artificial intelligence pioneer who is leaving Meta Platforms Inc. at the end of the year …

Bloomberg:
The EU says it is gathering more info and feedback from ~200 stakeholders on Google's offer to fix alleged antitrust violations linked to its ad tech business  —  The European Commission is seeking industry feedback on Google's offer to fix alleged antitrust violations linked to its ad tech business …