Tech news today captured the widening collision between AI ambition, public backlash, and government control. In Britain, Keir Starmer’s government moved to bar under-16s from major social platforms from 2027, arguing that addictive design and harmful content demand a tougher line, while leaving most messaging apps outside the ban. At Stanford, that same anxiety about technology’s social consequences turned sharply political as hundreds of students walked out of Sundar Pichai’s commencement address, protesting Google’s ties to Israeli government cloud and AI work under Project Nimbus. Meanwhile, the AI business boom accelerated: Salesforce agreed to buy customer-service AI firm Fin for about $3.6 billion to deepen its enterprise “agentic” push, and India’s Sarvam AI raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, underscoring how fiercely companies and countries alike are racing to build their own AI capacity.