SEC filings show how Meta restructured its stock to shield Mark Zuckerberg from California's proposed wealth tax, after he said he'd sell his Palo Alto home (New York Times)
Google, Temasek, and Bain: online spending in SE Asia to rise ~17% YoY to $368B in 2026 despite economic headwinds, as businesses harness AI to spur spending (Gabrielle Ng/Bloomberg)
The US sanctions MiraclePlus, a Chinese VC firm founded by ex-Microsoft executive Lu Qi, over alleged ties to Zhisuan, accused of stealing Google's AI secrets (Bloomberg)
Ant-backed Mynt, which runs mobile wallet app GCash, rose as much as 2.4% in Manila after raising $841M in the Philippines' largest-ever IPO, valuing it at ~$7B (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
Leaked documents detail ECHOTRIBBLE, a nascent US Army Cyber Command program for agentic AI to autonomously spread across networks to find and eliminate targets (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
A profile of Alona Katz, chief of Brooklyn DA's Virtual Currency Unit, who recently led an operation that seized and disrupted over 240 crypto fraud websites (Bloomberg)
Survey of 94 economists: 54% expect AI's gains to spread across the G20 over the next decade, not just the US and China; 32 see African countries falling behind (Financial Times)