Tech’s biggest story today is the growing backlash against platforms themselves: social media companies have agreed to pay $27 million to settle a Kentucky school district lawsuit over alleged harm to students, avoiding what would have been a closely watched first trial of its kind. That legal pressure is mirrored in politics, where UK minister Liz Kendall says a children’s social media ban is “definitely on the table,” backed, she says, by nine in 10 parents. At the same time, the industry’s money is flowing hard into AI’s future, with SoftBank outlining a vast plan to invest up to €75 billion in French data centers and turn the country into a European AI hub. At the sharper edge of innovation, developers are testing autonomous AI agents to chase GitHub bounties—so far with mixed returns, from nothing to a few hundred dollars—showing both the promise and limits of automation.