SpaceX has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind AI coding agent Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock deal expected to close in Q3 2026, subject to regulatory approvals. The acquisition follow…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models were suspended globally around June 13, 2026, after a U.S. export-control directive ordered the company to cut off access for foreign nationals on nation…
The US government's global ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered by a three-word prompt, "fix this code," which security researcher Katie Moussouris says was standard defensive securit…
SpaceX will acquire AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced today. The deal comes days after SpaceX's IPO and months after its merger with xAI, as Cu…
Anthropic disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models globally on June 12 after the US government issued an export-control directive requiring suspension for foreign nationals. The move sparked…
Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook in June 2026, replacing traditional search with conversational answers synthesized from public posts, Groups, and Reels using its Llama 3 model. The feature lacks a s…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code, a coding-focused agent model with 1 trillion total parameters and a 256K context window, aimed at multi-step software engineering tasks. The Beijing lab positions …
Respond.io, a Kuala Lumpur-based customer conversation management platform, raised $62.5 million in Series B funding led by Camber Partners with participation from Endeavor Catalyst. The company repor…
Token prices have fallen 98% since late 2022, yet enterprise AI bills have tripled, with Uber exhausting its 2026 AI coding budget by April. Gartner predicts 40% of enterprises using consumption-price…
Facebook launched AI Mode, a new search feature powered by Meta AI that generates conversational answers by synthesizing publicly posted content from across Meta apps including Facebook Groups, Reels,…
Tech companies have cut 150,000 workers in 2026 at a pace 44% faster than last year, with AI cited as the primary driver for three consecutive months. Junior developers are hit hardest, with employmen…
Sarvam raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation in a Series B extension led by HCLTech, which contributed $150 million as the lead strategic investor. The Bengaluru-based AI startup, which has …
Alpha School, a private K-12 network, uses AI-driven adaptive software to deliver core academics in two hours daily, with students reportedly learning 2.5x faster than peers. The model, backed by tech…
NewCore, an identity security startup co-founded by Zohar Alon, Amihai Neiderman, and Erez Yarkoni, emerged from stealth on June 15 with $66 million in seed funding to secure a workforce that includes…
Google launched information agents in AI Mode for AI Ultra subscribers, with expansion to AI Pro planned for summer 2026. The agents monitor blogs, news, social media, shopping, finance, and sports fe…
Mistral, the French AI lab, is reportedly raising €3 billion at a valuation of around €20 billion, nearly double its previous €11.7 billion valuation. The funding signals market confidence in open-wei…
DuckDuckGo hit an all-time traffic high and saw a 30% surge in U.S. app installs after Google replaced traditional search results with AI Overviews by default at its May I/O conference. The privacy-fo…
Visa invested in Replit to power agentic payments for developers, signaling that autonomous agents are about to move real money. A pattern is emerging for an agent payment stack, with competing author…
A developer outlines a claim verification pipeline to prevent AI hallucinations from reaching customers. The architecture splits AI-generated answers into structured claim objects, each with risk leve…
Google has sued an alleged Chinese cybercrime operation called Outsider Enterprise that used AI-powered phishing kits to send scam text messages, renting the tooling for $88 per week. The group sent 2…