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The Trump administration plans to name Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and Jensen Huang as formal US AI ambassadors, giving three of the technology industry's m...
Legal AI Startup Harvey Raises $200M, Valued at $11 Billion
Legal AI company Harvey raised $200 million in a round led by GIC and Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $11 billion. Harvey has expanded from contract rev...
Bernie Sanders Introduces AI Safety Bill That Would Halt Data Center Construction
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation that would freeze new data center construction until federal AI safety standards are established, making it the mo...
AI Science Startup Periodic Labs, Founded by Ex-OpenAI VP, in Deal Talks at $7 Billion
Periodic Labs, the AI-for-science startup founded by former OpenAI VP Liam Fedus, is in deal talks at a valuation of approximately $7 billion, Bloomberg reporte...
Zuckerberg Makes Meta Small Business a Company-Wide Priority in Internal Memo
Mark Zuckerberg declared Meta Small Business a formal company-wide priority in an internal memo. AI-powered advertising tools have made the small and medium bus...
AI Is Already Changing Enterprise Software Contracts. They're Getting Shorter.
Bloomberg reports enterprise software buyers are pushing back on multi-year contract commitments as artificial intelligence makes technology roadmaps unpredicta...
Anthropic Adds 'Safer' Auto Mode to Claude Code for Agentic Tasks
Anthropic introduced new guardrails for Claude Code's autonomous operation mode, targeting the risk of unreviewed action chains in agentic coding workflows. The...
How Internet Censorship Tech Maker Sandvine Sold Its Tools to Repressive Regimes
An investigation traces how Sandvine's deep packet inspection tools ended up in the hands of authoritarian governments running internet censorship operations. T...
Sam Altman Memo: OpenAI's Next Model Has Finished Pretraining, Safety Team Restructured
Sam Altman confirmed in an internal memo that OpenAI's next flagship model has completed pretraining and entered the post-training phase. The memo also disclose...
Autonomous Driving Firm DeepRoute.ai Said to Consider Hong Kong IPO
Chinese autonomous vehicle startup DeepRoute.ai is exploring a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Bloomberg reported. The company is one of several Chines...
How a $250 Million Satellite Startup Dissolved Into a Wave of Lawsuits
Bloomberg published a feature investigation into the collapse of Theia, a satellite startup that raised $250 million before dissolving into litigation. The case...
Spotify Tests Artist Profile Protection to Block AI Tracks From Being Attributed to Real Artists
Spotify is testing a new feature that lets artists approve releases before they go live on their profiles, targeting AI-generated music that is falsely attribut...
China Bars Manus AI Co-Founders From Leaving the Country
China has restricted Manus AI co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country, signaling that Beijing considers the viral AI agent startup a strate...
Worsening CPU Supply Constraints at Intel and AMD Add Fresh Pressure to AI Infrastructure Buildout
CPU shortages at Intel and AMD are compounding the existing GPU bottleneck, creating multi-layer supply stress for data centers trying to scale AI compute capac...
Europe's Tech Exodus Has Drained $1.4 Trillion in Value, Study Finds
A new study quantifies the cost of European startups, founders, and capital relocating to US markets at $1.4 trillion in lost value. The research tracks compani...
OpenAI Hires CEO of India's JioStar to Lead Asia-Pacific Operations
OpenAI hired the CEO of India's JioStar to lead its Asia-Pacific operations, signaling India and Southeast Asia as major expansion priorities. The appointment ...
Trump Administration Settles Murthy v. Missouri, Ending Government Social Media Censorship Case
The Trump administration reached a settlement in Murthy v. Missouri, ending the landmark First Amendment case over federal agencies coordinating with social med...
Anduril, Palantir, and Scale AI Among Companies Developing Software for US Military
Anduril, Palantir, and Scale AI are among the AI-native defense technology companies confirmed to be building software for the Pentagon, representing a generati...
Amazon Acquires Startup Building Kid-Size Humanoid Robots
Amazon acquired a humanoid robotics startup focused on child-sized form factor robots, signaling interest in consumer and home robot applications beyond warehou...
Kleiner Perkins Raises $3.5B and Goes All In on AI
Kleiner Perkins closed a $3.5 billion fund with artificial intelligence as its central investment thesis across early and growth stages. The fund is one of the ...
SpaceX Plans to File IPO Prospectus With US Regulators as Soon as This Week
Bloomberg and The Information confirm SpaceX is targeting an IPO prospectus filing with US regulators this week. The company was last valued at more than $350 b...
OpenAI Shuts Down Sora and Ends Billion-Dollar Disney Partnership
OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its AI video generation tool, and ending the partnership with Disney that was signed in December 2025. The move represents a major...
Federal Judge Calls Pentagon's Ban on Anthropic AI Tools 'Troubling'
A US federal judge signaled judicial skepticism toward the Pentagon's restrictions on Anthropic's AI tools during a hearing, calling the ban 'troubling.' The ca...
OpenAI Raising Additional $10B From a16z, D.E. Shaw, and Others
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar confirmed a new $10 billion fundraising round led by Andreessen Horowitz and D.E. Shaw. The round follows the $40 billion raise OpenAI co...
Privacy Startup Cloaked Raises $375M as It Expands From Consumer to Enterprise
Cloaked, a consumer-focused privacy company that lets users generate disposable phone numbers, emails, and identities, raised $375 million in a new funding roun...
Russia Puts First Rassvet Internet Satellites Into Orbit as Domestic Starlink Alternative
Russia launched the first batch of operational satellites for Rassvet, its domestic broadband internet constellation designed to compete with SpaceX's Starlink,...
OpenAI Petitions UK Regulator to Force Google to Include AI Chatbots in Search Choice Screen
OpenAI has filed a petition with the UK Competition and Markets Authority asking it to require Google to include AI chatbots alongside traditional search engine...
OpenAI Acquires Astral, Makers of Python Tools uv, Ruff, and ty
OpenAI announced it is acquiring Astral, the developer toolchain company behind uv, ruff, and ty, three widely adopted open-source Python tools covering depende...
Nintendo Cuts Switch 2 Production by 33% After Weaker-Than-Expected Holiday Sales
Nintendo plans to produce approximately 4 million Switch 2 units this quarter, down roughly 33% from its original target of 6 million, following weaker-than-exp...
Alibaba DAMO Academy Claims 'World's Highest Performing RISC-V CPU' With New XuanTie C950
Alibaba's research arm DAMO Academy unveiled the XuanTie C950, a 5-nanometer server chip clocked at 3.2 GHz that it describes as the highest performing RISC-V C...
YC-Backed Compliance Startup Delve Halts Demos and Loses Investor Backing After 'Fake Compliance' Allegations
Y Combinator-backed compliance startup Delve has halted product demos and seen Insight Partners pull back from a planned investment after a whistleblower publis...
Senators Warren and Banks Call for Suspension of Nvidia Export Licenses to China and Southeast Asia
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jim Banks, in a bipartisan letter, urged the Commerce Department to immediately pause export licenses allowing Nvidia chips to flo...
Nvidia Has Become the AI Industry's Most Powerful Financier
A Wall Street Journal investigation details how Nvidia has quietly become the dominant financial backer in the AI industry, investing billions in startups and e...
Alibaba T-Head Unveils Zhenwu 810E AI Chip Comparable to Nvidia H20
Alibaba's semiconductor unit T-Head has released technical specifications for the Zhenwu 810E, a fully in-house designed chip built to handle both AI training a...
SoftBank Warns New OpenAI Commitment Could Push Its Debt Ratio Past Self-Imposed Ceiling
SoftBank has acknowledged its loan-to-value ratio could breach its self-imposed 25% ceiling as it finalizes a 0 billion follow-on investment in OpenAI, the Fina...
GPT-5.4 Pro Sets New FrontierMath Record, Solves First-Ever Tier 4 Problem
OpenAI's GPT-5.4 Pro set a new high-water mark on FrontierMath, Epoch AI's benchmark of research-grade mathematics, scoring 50% on Tiers 1 through 3 and 38% on ...
Trump Cyber Strategy Signals Greater Private Sector Role in Offensive Cyber Operations
The Trump administration released its National Cyber Strategy on March 6, calling for a larger role for private companies in offensive cyber operations against ...
BlackRock's Larry Fink Warns AI Boom Could Deepen Wealth Inequality at Larger Scale Than Before
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink used his 2026 annual shareholder letter to warn that artificial intelligence could widen wealth inequality at a greater scale than any ...
Cursor Admits New Composer 2 Coding Model Was Built on Chinese AI Kimi K2.5
Cursor quietly launched Composer 2, a new coding model it described as frontier-level intelligence, without disclosing it was built on top of Kimi K2.5, an open...
State Department Creates Bureau of Emerging Threats to Counter AI and Cyber Risks
The US State Department has formally launched the Bureau of Emerging Threats, a new division tasked with defending against cyberattacks, AI weaponization, and s...
Elon Musk Announces $10B Terafab Chip Facility in Austin for Tesla, SpaceX, xAI
Elon Musk announced plans to build a semiconductor fabrication facility in Austin, Texas, called Terafab. The plant will produce custom chips for Tesla, SpaceX,...
EA in Advanced Talks for $55B Saudi PIF Take-Private Deal
Electronic Arts is in advanced discussions for a take-private deal valued at approximately $55 billion, led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, Bloomberg ...
OpenAI Offering Private Equity Firms 17.5% Guaranteed Return for Enterprise JVs
OpenAI is offering private equity firms a guaranteed 17.5% annual return on enterprise joint ventures, according to Reuters. The deals would see PE firms invest...
Waymo Fleet Surpasses 170 Million Miles, Records 92% Fewer Serious-Injury Crashes Than Human Drivers
Waymo announced its autonomous vehicle fleet has driven more than 170 million miles and recorded 92% fewer serious-injury crashes compared to human drivers, bas...
Hacker Mints $900M in USR Stablecoins Through Smart Contract Exploit
An attacker exploited a vulnerability in the minting logic of the USR stablecoin smart contract, creating approximately $900 million worth of tokens without pro...
Hack of Iowa Breathalyzer Company Leaves 150,000 Cars Unable to Start
A cyberattack on Intoxalock, an Iowa-based manufacturer of ignition interlock devices, disrupted breathalyzer-equipped vehicles across the United States, leavin...
Microsoft Hires Former Allen Institute AI CEO Ali Farhadi and Research Team
Microsoft hired Ali Farhadi, the former CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), along with members of his research team. Farhadi will join...
FCC Bans Imports of All Foreign-Made Consumer Routers Over Cybersecurity Risk
The Federal Communications Commission banned the import and sale of all foreign-manufactured consumer routers in the United States, citing national security con...
Spotify Lays Off 15 Podcast Staff, Including Multiple Ringer Employees
Spotify cut 15 positions across its podcast division, affecting staff at The Ringer and Spotify Studios. The layoffs represent approximately 3% of the podcast u...
Exploit Kit That Can Hack Millions of iPhones Leaked Publicly
A previously private exploit kit capable of compromising millions of iPhones has been leaked publicly, according to TechCrunch. The toolkit targets vulnerabilit...
Anthropic Gives Claude the Ability to Use Your Mac
Anthropic announced that Claude Code and Cowork can now control macOS applications directly, allowing the AI assistant to navigate desktop software, click butto...
Dutch Finance Ministry Blocks Systems After Hack Detected
The Netherlands Ministry of Finance shut down computer systems after detecting a cyberattack, according to Bloomberg. The ministry took its networks offline as ...
LocalStack Archives GitHub Repo, Now Requires Account to Run
LocalStack, a widely used open-source tool that emulates AWS services for local development and testing, archived its GitHub repository and moved to a model req...
JPMorgan Launches CDS Basket Letting Investors Hedge Against AI Debt Risk
JPMorgan created a new credit default swap basket that allows investors to hedge against the debt risk of companies heavily invested in artificial intelligence ...
Meta Hires Dreamer AI Team, Hugo Barra Joins Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta hired the founding team of Dreamer, an AI startup built by former Google and Stripe executives, and appointed Hugo Barra to its Superintelligence Labs divi...
OpenAI Hires Meta VP Dave Dugan to Lead Ad Sales
OpenAI hired Dave Dugan, a former Meta vice president, to lead its advertising sales operations, the Wall Street Journal reported. The hire signals OpenAI's int...
Tesla FSD Faces Expanded NHTSA Probe, Recall Expected
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration expanded its investigation into Tesla's Full Self-Driving software and is expected to issue a recall, The Ver...
Kandou AI raises $225 million from SoftBank, Synopsys, and Maverick Silicon for AI chip development
Kandou AI, an AI chip startup founded by a former Goldman Sachs managing director, raised $225 million in a funding round led by SoftBank, with participation fr...
Senators Schiff and Curtis introduce bipartisan bill to ban sports betting on CFTC-regulated prediction markets
Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduced bipartisan legislation to ban sports betting on prediction markets regulated by the CFTC. The bill targets platf...
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warns AI will deepen inequality unless more people can invest in the gains
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warned that artificial intelligence will deepen economic inequality unless governments create mechanisms for ordinary people to invest ...
Sony nearing $1 billion deal to sell 51% of its home entertainment business to Chinese rival TCL
Sony is close to finalizing the sale of a 51% stake in its home entertainment and television business to TCL, the Chinese electronics manufacturer, in a deal va...
Rivian Will Supply 50,000 Autonomous Robotaxis to Uber in $1.25 Billion Deal
Rivian signed a deal to supply 50,000 autonomous robotaxis to Uber in a partnership valued at $1.25 billion, Engadget reported. The vehicles will be purpose-bui...
Google signs deals with five US electric utilities for 1 gigawatt of demand response capacity for its data centers
Google signed agreements with five US electric utilities for one gigawatt of demand response capacity to support its data center operations, Reuters reported. ...
AWS at 20: how Amazon built the cloud empire that dominates enterprise computing -- and what it needs to win the AI era
Amazon Web Services marks its 20th anniversary in 2026, having grown from the launch of S3 and EC2 in 2006 into a business generating more than $100 billion in ...
Pro-Iranian group Handala hacked Stryker and mass-wiped thousands of devices; FBI seizes group's websites
The pro-Iranian hacking group Handala compromised Stryker, the medical device manufacturer, by exploiting Microsoft Intune mobile device management to remotely ...
Waymo fleet surpasses 170 million miles and records 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers
Waymo announced its autonomous vehicle fleet has driven more than 170 million miles and recorded 92% fewer serious-injury crashes compared to human drivers, bas...
TP-Link CEO applied for Trump Gold Card visa while company faces US national security probe over China ties
The CEO of TP-Link applied for the Trump administration's Gold Card visa program while the company simultaneously faces a US national security investigation ove...
Alphabet's X moonshot lab spins out Anori with $26M to automate building permit approvals
Alphabet's X moonshot lab spun out Anori as an independent company with $26 million in funding to automate building permit approvals, TechCrunch reported. Anor...
DoorDash launches Tasks app paying delivery couriers to film videos and record speech to train AI
DoorDash launched a new app called Tasks that pays delivery couriers to complete AI training work including filming videos and recording speech, TechCrunch repo...
Oasis Security raises $120M to protect non-human AI identities, bringing total funding to $190M
Oasis Security raised $120 million to protect non-human AI identities, bringing its total funding to $190 million, Bloomberg reported. The company provides secu...
Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over after ~$80 billion and a company rename
Mark Zuckerberg's original vision for the metaverse is effectively over after Meta spent approximately $80 billion and renamed the entire company around the con...
Cape raises $100M Series C at $900M valuation for anti-surveillance cell network; revenue up 8x in a year
Cape, a startup building a cellular network designed to resist surveillance, raised $100 million at a $900 million valuation. Founded by former Palantir employe...
FCC enforcement chief privately offered to help Brendan Carr target Disney over Jimmy Kimmel monologue, records show
The FCC's chief enforcement officer privately offered to help Chairman Brendan Carr target Disney over a Jimmy Kimmel monologue, internal records obtained by WI...
Palantir wins three-month trial to access UK financial regulator's intelligence data, raising internal concerns
Palantir won a three-month trial contract to access intelligence data held by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority, raising internal concerns, The Guardian repo...
Meta's rogue AI agent passed every identity check and exposed sensitive data in a major internal security incident
A rogue AI agent inside Meta passed every identity verification check and accessed sensitive internal data in a major security incident, VentureBeat reported. ...
AI bot traffic will exceed human internet traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says
AI bot traffic will surpass human internet traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said, according to TechCrunch. The prediction is based on Cloudflare's...
OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the open source company behind Python tools ruff and uv
OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the company behind the popular Python tools ruff and uv, Ars Technica reported. The deal gives OpenAI ownership of foundational Pyth...
FBI restarted buying Americans' location data without a warrant, Kash Patel confirms at Senate hearing
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed at a Senate hearing that the bureau has resumed purchasing Americans' location data from commercial data brokers without warra...
Bluesky raises $100M Series B as Jay Graber steps down and new CEO takes charge
Bluesky raised $100 million in a Series B as co-founder Jay Graber stepped down and a new CEO took charge, The Next Web reported. The decentralized social netwo...
Cursor releases Composer 2 coding model, benchmarking above Claude Opus 4.6 but below GPT-5.4
Cursor released Composer 2, a proprietary coding model that benchmarks above Claude Opus 4.6 on several tasks but below GPT-5.4, VentureBeat reported. Composer...
Nvidia agrees to sell 1 million GPUs and new Groq chips to AWS by end of 2027
Nvidia signed an agreement to sell one million GPUs and new Groq-branded inference chips to AWS by end of 2027, Reuters reported. The deal is one of the largest...
US charges Super Micro co-founder with smuggling billions in Nvidia chips to China; SMCI drops 11.85%
Federal prosecutors charged the co-founder of Super Micro Computer with smuggling billions in Nvidia AI chips to China, Bloomberg reported. SMCI shares dropped ...
Jeff Bezos wants $100 billion to buy and transform old manufacturing firms with AI
Jeff Bezos is seeking $100 billion to acquire and transform established manufacturing companies using AI, TechCrunch reported. The model emphasizes AI integrat...
Blue Origin files FCC application for 52,000 solar-powered satellites as part of Project Sunrise orbital AI data center system
Blue Origin filed an FCC application for a constellation of 52,000 solar-powered satellites as part of Project Sunrise, an orbital AI data center system. The fi...
Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent to help him be CEO
Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent to help him perform CEO duties, sources told the Wall Street Journal. The agent would handle tasks including scheduling,...
OpenAI plans desktop super-app combining ChatGPT, its browser, and code generator
OpenAI is building a desktop application for macOS that combines ChatGPT, its code generation tools, and its web browser into a single product, Bloomberg report...
Anthropic launches Claude Code Channels, letting users message Claude agents via Telegram and Discord
Anthropic launched Claude Code Channels, a feature that lets users communicate with Claude agents via Telegram and Discord. The integration allows developers to...
Tencent Launches ClawBot AI Agent in WeChat, Giving 1 Billion Users Access via Chat
Tencent launched ClawBot, an AI agent integrated directly into WeChat, giving more than one billion users access to an AI assistant within China's dominant mess...
Alibaba and Tencent Lose Combined $66 Billion in Market Value as Investors Punish Unclear AI Monetization
Alibaba and Tencent lost a combined $66 billion in market capitalization as investors sold shares over concerns that neither company has articulated a clear pat...
Xiaomi Releases 1-Trillion-Parameter AI Model That Benchmarks Close to GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.6
Xiaomi released MiMo V2 Pro, a one-trillion-parameter AI model that benchmarks within striking distance of OpenAI's GPT-5.2 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, acc...
Senators Warren and Blumenthal Probe Nvidia's $20 Billion Groq Deal Over Antitrust Concerns
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal launched a probe into Nvidia's proposed $20 billion acquisition of Groq, citing antitrust concerns about Nvidia...
Meta removes E2E encryption from Instagram DMs; experts warn first major domino
Meta removed end-to-end encryption from Instagram direct messages, reversing a security feature that the company had previously touted as a privacy protection. ...
SAP CEO: defense industry is now the fastest-growing business as military budgets surge
SAP CEO Christian Klein said the defense industry is now the company's fastest-growing business segment as military budgets surge across NATO countries, Bloombe...
China approves first brain chips for commercial sale, plans to dominate BCI
China approved the first brain-computer interface devices for commercial sale, positioning the country to compete with Neuralink and other Western BCI companies...
Cursor Admits New Coding Model Built on Chinese Moonshot AI's Kimi
Cursor acknowledged that Composer 2, its new coding model, was built on top of Kimi, a model developed by Chinese AI company Moonshot AI, TechCrunch reported. T...
ByteDance selling Moonton games unit to Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games for $6 billion
ByteDance is selling its Moonton gaming unit to Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group for $6 billion, Engadget reported. Moonton is the developer of Mobile Legends: ...
xAI sending engineers to enterprise client sites to win business from OpenAI and Anthropic
xAI is deploying engineers directly to enterprise client sites to win business from OpenAI and Anthropic, Bloomberg reported. The hands-on approach involves emb...
Mistral CEO proposes EU revenue levy on AI providers to fund content creators
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch proposed a revenue-based levy on AI providers operating in Europe to fund compensation for content creators, writing in the Financial ...
Google Search replacing publisher headlines with AI-generated versions
Google has begun replacing publisher-written headlines with AI-generated versions in search results, The Verge reported. Publishers described the practice as a...
Accel partner says AI bubble tendencies forming, fewer winners ahead
A senior Accel partner warned that bubble tendencies are forming in the AI sector and fewer companies will win than valuations suggest, Bloomberg reported. The...
Anduril rolling first Fury uncrewed fighter off Ohio line this summer, assembled by hand
Anduril is preparing to roll the first Fury autonomous combat drone off its Ohio assembly line this summer, assembled by hand, Bloomberg reported. Hand assembl...
NASA revising Artemis to reduce Boeing role, elevate SpaceX Starship for lunar orbit
NASA is revising its Artemis lunar program to reduce Boeing's role and elevate SpaceX's Starship, Bloomberg reported. Starship would take on larger roles in cr...
Jensen Huang proposes engineers get AI token budgets on top of base salary
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang proposed that companies give engineers AI token budgets as a component of compensation, according to Techmeme. Huang argued that as AI ...
Widely used Trivy security scanner compromised in ongoing supply chain attack
Trivy, a widely used open-source security scanner for containers and infrastructure-as-code, was compromised in an ongoing supply chain attack, Ars Technica rep...
DOE and SoftBank partner to build 10-gigawatt data center with dedicated power in Ohio
The Department of Energy and SoftBank announced a partnership to build a 10-gigawatt data center complex with dedicated power in Ohio. Ten gigawatts equals rou...
Amazon Trainium chip wins over Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple
Amazon's custom Trainium AI chips have won adoption from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple, TechCrunch reported after a tour of Amazon's chip lab. Adoption by three...
Jury finds Elon Musk misled Twitter investors with tweets ahead of $44 billion acquisition
A jury found Elon Musk misled Twitter investors with tweets during the lead-up to his $44 billion acquisition, Ars Technica reported. The case centered on Musk...
OpenAI targets 8,000 employees by end of 2026 to counter Anthropic
OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce from 4,500 to 8,000 by end of 2026, Techmeme reported. The hiring push is driven by competition with Anthropic. The...
Pentagon officially adopts Palantir Maven AI as program of record across all U.S. military branches
The Pentagon officially adopted Palantir's Maven AI system as a program of record across all US military branches, according to a leaked DOD letter reported by ...
Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once military deploys it
Anthropic filed a legal response stating it cannot remotely manipulate Claude once deployed by the military, WIRED reported. Once in an air-gapped environment,...
Nscale acquires 2,250-acre West Virginia data center campus, plans 8GW by 2031
Nscale acquired a 2,250-acre data center campus in West Virginia and announced plans to build out 8 gigawatts of compute capacity by 2031. The site was previous...
Mistral releases Small 4, a 119B-parameter open-weight model
Mistral released Small 4, a 119-billion-parameter open-weight model that uses mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 6 billion active parameters per...
OpenAI mental health advisors unanimously opposed adult mode ChatGPT launch
OpenAI's handpicked council of mental health advisers unanimously warned the company against launching adult mode in ChatGPT, according to the Wall Street Journ...
Senator Warren presses Pentagon over xAI classified network access
Senator Elizabeth Warren pressed the Pentagon over its decision to grant xAI access to classified military networks, TechCrunch reported. Warren sent a letter t...
Teens sue xAI over Grok-generated CSAM
Three Tennessee teenagers filed a class-action lawsuit against xAI, alleging that the company's Grok AI image generator created child sexual abuse material usin...
Apple acquires video editing company MotionVFX
Apple acquired MotionVFX, a Polish company that develops visual effects and motion graphics plugins for Final Cut Pro, TechCrunch and MacRumors reported. Motio...
Nvidia expects $1 trillion+ from AI chips through 2027
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company expects to generate more than $1 trillion in revenue from AI chips through 2027, Bloomberg reported. The forecast refle...
Trump opposition kills Florida AI Bill of Rights, splits GOP
Trump's opposition killed Florida's AI Bill of Rights legislation and split Republicans in the state legislature, the New York Times reported. The bill would h...
Samsung ending Galaxy Z TriFold sales after 3 months
Samsung is ending sales of its Galaxy Z TriFold smartphone after just three months on the market, 9to5Google reported. The device, Samsung's most ambitious fold...
Apple launches AirPods Max 2 at $549 with live translation
Apple launched AirPods Max 2 at $549, featuring the H2 chip, 1.5x improved active noise cancellation, and real-time language translation, TechCrunch reported. ...
OpenAI in talks for $10B PE joint venture with TPG and Advent
OpenAI is in discussions with private equity firms TPG and Advent International for a $10 billion joint venture, Bloomberg reported. The partnership would fund ...
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster filed a joint copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company used their content to train ChatGPT without per...
OpenAI restructures Stargate with new leaders, three compute tracks
OpenAI is restructuring its Stargate AI infrastructure program with new leadership and a three-track compute strategy, The Information reported. The reorganizat...
Iran war chokepoints threaten global chip supply chain
Escalating conflict involving Iran is creating chokepoints that threaten the global chip supply chain, Bloomberg reported. Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing ...
Meta commits up to $27B to Nebius in AI infrastructure deal
Meta committed up to $27 billion over five years to Nebius, a European AI infrastructure company, The Next Web reported. The deal gives Meta dedicated access to...
Spotify launches Taste Profile editing in beta
Spotify is letting users edit their recommendation algorithm for the first time through a new Taste Profile feature in beta. The tool gives users direct control...
upGrad acquires Unacademy in all-stock deal
Indian edtech company upGrad acquired rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal, consolidating two of India's largest online education platforms. The merger creates ...
Anthropic doubles Claude usage limits during off-peak hours
Anthropic doubled Claude's usage limits during off-peak hours for Pro and Max subscribers, the company announced. The change allows users to send significantly ...
Microsoft scales back Copilot AI integration on Windows 11
Microsoft is scaling back its Copilot AI integration on Windows 11 after user complaints about the assistant's intrusiveness and unreliability. The company will...
Apple delays smart home lineup to September as Siri development falls behind
Apple delayed its smart home product lineup to September after Siri development fell behind schedule, Bloomberg reported. The company had planned to launch new ...
JD.com launches Joybuy in six European countries to challenge Amazon
JD.com launched Joybuy, its international e-commerce platform, in six European countries to challenge Amazon's dominance in the region. The launch covers German...
Micron completes $1.8B acquisition of Powerchip DRAM fab in Taiwan
Micron completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of a DRAM fabrication facility in Taiwan from Powerchip Semiconductor. The deal gives Micron additional manufactur...
Digg Shuts Down After Bot Flooding, Kevin Rose Returns Full-Time
Digg, the social news aggregation site that was once one of the most visited websites on the internet, shut down after being overwhelmed by bot-generated conten...
TikTok Investors Paying $10 Billion to Trump Administration for Brokering Deal
TikTok's investors are paying approximately $10 billion to the Trump administration as part of the deal to keep the app operating in the United States. The paym...
Zendesk Acquires AI Customer Support Startup Forethought
Zendesk acquired Forethought, an AI-powered customer support startup, to bolster its automated service capabilities. The deal adds Forethought's AI agents, whic...
Meta Plans Layoffs Affecting Up to 20 Percent of Workforce
Meta is planning layoffs that could affect up to 20% of its workforce, according to multiple reports. The cuts would be among the largest in the company's histo...
FCC chairman threatens TV broadcast licenses over Iran war coverage
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened to revoke television broadcast licenses over networks' coverage of the Iran conflict, drawing immediate criticism from pres...
Drone strikes shutter Qatari helium hub supplying 33% of global production
Drone strikes shuttered a Qatari helium production facility that supplies approximately 33% of global production, disrupting supply chains for semiconductor man...
San Francisco rents surge 14% as AI boom drives housing rebound
San Francisco rents surged 14% year-over-year as the AI boom drives a housing rebound in the city, reversing the pandemic-era exodus that had pushed vacancy rat...
Anthropic Launches Internal Think Tank Led by Co-Founder Jack Clark
Anthropic launched an internal policy think tank led by co-founder Jack Clark, the company announced. The group will research AI governance, safety policy, and ...
NVIDIA Backs Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab with Compute and Capital
Nvidia is backing Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab with dedicated compute capacity and capital investment. Murati, who left OpenAI as CTO in 2025, founded th...
OpenAI's Codex Hit $1B in Revenue -- But Claude Code Got There First
OpenAI's Codex programming tool reached $1 billion in annualized revenue, but Anthropic's Claude Code achieved the same milestone first, according to industry s...
China Restricts OpenClaw AI at Banks, State Agencies Over Security Concerns
Chinese authorities have restricted state-owned enterprises and government agencies from running OpenClaw AI applications on office computers, moving to address...
NVIDIA Reportedly Building 'NemoClaw' Enterprise AI Agent Platform
NVIDIA is developing an enterprise AI agent platform called NemoClaw, according to sources cited by WIRED and reported by The Next Web. The company has been pi...
Mandiant Founder Kevin Mandia Raises $190M for Autonomous AI Security Startup Armadin
Kevin Mandia, founder of cybersecurity firm Mandiant, has raised $190 million for his new company Armadin, which builds autonomous AI agents designed to detect ...
Federal Judge Blocks Perplexity AI Agents From Shopping on Amazon
A federal judge has issued an injunction blocking Perplexity's Comet browser from placing orders on Amazon through its AI shopping agents. US District Judge Ma...
Anthropic Sues Trump Administration Over Federal Blacklisting, Says Billions at Stake
Anthropic has filed suit against the Trump administration in US District Court for the Northern District of California, challenging the government's decision to...
US Senate greenlights ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot for official government work
A leaked internal memo reveals that a top US Senate administrator has authorized aides to use ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot for official Senate ...
Sequoia partner and ex-Meta CRO raising $1B+ to build AI-powered holding company
Sequoia Capital partner Ravi Gupta and former Meta Chief Revenue Officer John Hegeman are raising more than $1 billion to launch a holding company that will acq...
Anthropic sues US government over AI blacklisting, says billions at stake
Anthropic has filed a lawsuit against the US government after being blacklisted from federal contracts, telling a judge the company stands to lose billions if t...
Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Viral AI Agent Social Network
Meta has acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-style simulated social network populated entirely by AI agents that went viral in recent weeks. The company will hire Mol...
Oracle Q3 Earnings Beat Expectations as Cloud Revenue Surges 44%
Oracle reported fiscal Q3 revenue of $17.19 billion, up 22% year-over-year and ahead of the $16.91 billion analyst consensus. Cloud revenue led the results, cli...
Yann LeCun's AI Lab AMI Raises $1B in Europe's Largest Seed Round
Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), the Paris-based AI startup co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has closed a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 bi...
State Department Drops Anthropic for OpenAI as Trump Administration Cancels AI Contracts
The U.S. State Department has migrated its internal chatbot from Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 to OpenAI's GPT-4.1, following a Trump administration directive t...