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AI startup Seltz has raised $12.5 million in seed funding to rebuild web search for AI agents, led by Speedinvest and B Capital. The company argues that traditional search engines are ill-suited for A…

SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are preparing IPOs that could each value the companies at over $1 trillion, creating three new trillion-dollar AI competitors for Microsoft. The IPOs threaten Microsoft's…

Marketers using commoditized AI tools like Claude produce indistinguishable content, so the only way to differentiate is to build a custom system underneath the AI. The author argues that treating AI …

President Donald Trump announced on June 5 that his administration is exploring direct equity stakes in AI companies OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, aiming to let taxpayers share in AI growth. The move fo…

Local coding models have reached a point where they can run on consumer GPUs like the RTX 3090 with 16GB+ VRAM, offering fast inference and real coding capabilities. Top models include Qwen3.6 27B MTP…

Microsoft has identified over 50 AI recommendation poisoning attempts in 60 days, where hidden instructions in links and documents manipulate AI assistants to recommend specific vendors. The attacks t…

Software engineers are experiencing workplace paralysis and anxiety due to the rapid pace of AI tool releases, with major model releases quadrupling from 18 in 2023 to 69 in 2025, according to a devel…

Developer baalimago released Clai, a command-line context feeder for AI tasks that supports multiple LLM vendors and MCP servers. The tool follows Unix philosophy, enabling piped data workflows, conve…

Meta has not yet agreed to voluntarily submit its AI models for government safety review under President Trump's June 2 executive order, while Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, and Microsoft have signed…

OpenRouter launched a Unified Image API providing standardized access to over 30 image generation models from providers including Google, OpenAI, and Black Forest Labs. The API includes a model discov…

Noam Shazeer, co-author of the seminal 'Attention Is All You Need' paper that introduced the transformer architecture, left Google for OpenAI just two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him…

Japan's three largest banks—MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho—are adopting Google's AI for core banking functions, marking a strategic shift toward U.S. technology and away from China's state-driven AI model. Fi…

Wonderful, a Netherlands-based enterprise AI agent platform backed by $300 million in funding, expanded its Singapore operations and appointed Alexander Kleinberg as General Manager. The move aims to …

ClawBase, a managed hosting platform for the open-source AI agent OpenClaw, aims to give users full control over their AI agent's memory. The platform addresses concerns about data sovereignty, lock-i…

Japan launched a 'Study Group on the Protection of International Submarine Cables' in November 2025 to strengthen cable resilience amid growing geopolitical tensions. The move follows damage incidents…

A vendor-commissioned study by Commerce and PayPal found 64% of 1,000 UK online shoppers are interested in agentic AI shopping assistants, but only 21% currently use AI for shopping. 46% believe brand…

Firebase shut down its Imagen image generation models on June 24, 2026, causing 404 errors for apps still using the old API. Developers must migrate to the Gemini Image model family, which requires ch…

Premium media owners' only irreplaceable asset against generative AI is audience trust, as AI now produces good-enough content that erases traditional advantages like voice and expertise. The old mark…

Google fired a 7-year veteran engineer, Justin Poehnelt, after he built an open-source, agent-ready CLI for Google Workspace that went viral on Hacker News. The tool, now hosted under Google's own Git…

Alphabet, Google's parent company, will replace Verizon in the Dow Jones Industrial Average effective June 29, 2026. S&P Global announced the change to increase the index's exposure to AI, advertising…