Pixi launched a messaging app on the App Store that lets users send AI-powered AR characters through iMessage, which come to life via the recipient's iPhone camera and react to surroundings in real ti…
Social media platforms are introducing AI-powered tools that give users direct control over their content recommendations, allowing them to indicate preferences and filter feeds in real time. The shif…
Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal that the company plans to raise prices on its products to offset soaring memory and storage chip costs, which have quadrupled over the past year due to …
A new Pew Research Center survey finds only 16% of Americans expect AI to have a positive societal impact over the next 20 years, while 40% expect negative effects. The survey also reports that 44% of…
NEA partner Tiffany Luck said enterprises are still struggling to measure return on investment from AI, as companies like Uber blew through annual AI budgets and others cut AI tool licenses. Luck disc…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered remaining employees to participate in a three-day AI hackathon to rebuild 'hacker culture' weeks after laying off 8,000 workers. The move was met with employee backlas…
A WordPress VIP survey found 60% of US consumers say brands using 'AI' in messaging is a turnoff, while enterprise teams spend 16.6 hours weekly chasing AI search visibility. Multiple studies show con…
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…