June, a stealth startup, has emerged with $20 million in pre-seed funding to simplify AI adoption for enterprises, a substantial amount compared to the typical $1 million to $5 million for pre-seed rounds. The raise come…
Global private equity exits fell to $96bn in Q1 2026, according to Preqin, as AI reshapes M&A. Investec outlines three ways AI is changing exit strategies: buyers demand proof of defensible AI advantages, sale processes …
Alibaba, Chinas größter Tech-Konzern, hat das KI-Modell Qwen3.8-Max veröffentlicht, das nach Unternehmensangaben mit den Spitzenmodellen von OpenAI und Anthropic mithalten kann. Das Modell mit 2,4 Billionen Parametern so…
Dhivya Nagasubramanian, VP of AI Transformation and Innovation at a major U.S. financial institution, has authored 'Agentic AI for Engineers' (Apress/Springer Nature), a practical guide to building production-grade auton…
Perplexity AI faces a motion to dismiss in a copyright lawsuit, while Reddit's attempt to dismiss a similar case was rejected and News Corp has filed a lawsuit against Brave, highlighting the escalating legal battles ove…
A poll of 3,008 registered voters fielded between May 29 and June 3, 2026, by The Argument found that OpenAI leads public recognition and favorability among AI labs, with only 13% of respondents having not heard of the c…
A report from IBM's Institute for Business Value found that 76% of surveyed organizations now have a chief AI officer, up from 26% in 2025, and some IT leaders warn that CIOs risk being sidelined in enterprise AI initiat…
Three new studies published in Mindfulness, Scientific Reports, and the Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders show that group-based mindfulness and compassion programs alter brain activity patterns and reduce self-judgme…
Voice AI is rapidly expanding in US fast-food drive-thrus, with 6 percent of locations now using the technology, up from 5 percent in 2024, according to Intouch Insight's annual Drive Thru Survey. Taco Bell has rolled ou…
Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Chinese AI company 01.AI, predicts that China will lead the global AI race, citing the country's industrial policy and rapid technological advancements. China's BYD has surpassed Tesla as the world's l…
Meta Platforms Inc. reported disappointing third-quarter revenue guidance, causing shares to fall about 8% to $539.03, and reported its lowest free cash flow in years due to ballooning AI expenses, which could reach $145…
A University of California, San Francisco psychiatrist hospitalized 12 people in one year for 'AI psychosis,' a condition from prolonged exposure to AI's confident, supportive voice, and a milder version now affects exec…
Amazon has been mistakenly flagging legitimate customers as AI bots and restricting their access to customer reviews, according to complaints from users like Fred Hall, a longtime Prime subscriber, and Sean Kaufman. An A…
A developer has released africa-coord-bus, an open-source coordination layer for 32 Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers covering Kenya's coordination domains such as water, health, and agriculture. The tool defines a st…
On 15 May 2026, the Bank of England, the Financial Conduct Authority and HM Treasury warned that frontier AI models carry serious cyber and operational resilience implications for regulated firms and financial market inf…
A feud has erupted in Silicon Valley and Washington over China's powerful, cheap open-weight AI models, with entrepreneurs and politicians split between embracing them for economic benefits and cracking down on them for …
GSK and Relation Therapeutics entered a research collaboration on July 30 worth up to $110 million to generate human cellular perturbation datasets and train AI foundation models for drug-target discovery. The collaborat…
Scott Galloway and Ed Elson explain how single-stock leveraged ETFs caused volatility in the South Korean stock market, highlighting the dangers of leverage for investors. They also analyze earnings from Microsoft, Meta,…
June, a startup founded by former Salesforce executives, emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, aiming to solve AI deployment challenges in enterprises by automatin…
U.S. GDP growth slowed to 1.5% in the second quarter, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, which found no evidence of an AI-driven productivity boom in the data.