Europe’s top court handed Brussels a major win in its long campaign to rein in Big Tech, upholding Google’s €4.1 billion Android antitrust fine and reinforcing the EU’s willingness to challenge the market power built into dominant platforms. In the U.S., the AI boom is producing an altogether different debate: OpenAI is reportedly floating the idea of giving the federal government a 5% stake in the company, a striking proposal that would tie public interest more directly to private AI fortunes as political scrutiny intensifies over jobs, cybersecurity and control of frontier models. Elsewhere, technology and public safety collided in Beijing, where authorities say the pilot who crashed a light aircraft into the CITIC Tower had written about suicide, shifting attention toward mental health and aviation oversight. And in Indonesia’s Aceh, a TikTok livestream ended in public caning, underscoring how social media can amplify surveillance as well as expression.