The US Commerce Department has cleared OpenAI to release GPT-5.6 widely, ending a preview that limited the model to about 20 vetted partners.

ResMed is selling its MatrixCare home-health software unit to Frazier Healthcare Partners for $490m in cash to focus on sleep and breathing care.

Amazon is raising at least $25bn in an eight-part bond sale, its biggest of the year, to bankroll a $200bn AI infrastructure push.

Perplexity says it will run its AI agent workloads on Nvidia’s new Vera CPU, an early win for Nvidia’s push into general-purpose computing.

The US Supreme Court declined to block Texas’s law forcing Apple and Google to verify users’ ages and get parental consent for minors’ app downloads.

Microsoft is routing some app features to its in-house MAI models instead of OpenAI and Anthropic, chipping away at its reliance on partners.

Meta's Muse Image rolls out inside the Meta AI chatbot, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Users can generate images of friends from public Instagram posts. Opt-out available.

New Zealand denies plans to ban VPNs under its under-16 social media ban after a fierce privacy backlash, as age-check laws keep drifting toward encryption.

Toyota's $3.6bn Texas expansion moves some Tacoma production from Mexico. Trump credits tariffs, but Toyota didn't, and it isn't leaving Mexico.

Netflix will offer 2-to-20-minute videos from Condé Nast, Hearst, BuzzFeed, and Penske brands starting August 3 in six markets. Bloomberg says viewers are abandoning shows.

WiseTech co-founder Richard White has stepped down as executive chair amid a police probe, but stays on the board as chief innovation officer. Shares rose.

Forterra's Lancer vehicles completed 1,100 missions and 52 casualty evacuations in Ukraine. Soldiers still teleoperate them because autonomy cannot react to threats.