AethexAI, a voice AI startup founded by former Goldman Sachs and Meta employees, has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to build voice AI tailored for Africa and the Middle East. The company develo…
The U.K. has imposed legal guardrails on Google's AI search features, requiring the tech giant to offer publishers an opt-out toggle for generative AI results. Google announced compliance Wednesday, a…
Meta launched its AI customer support bot, Meta Business Agent, globally on WhatsApp Business and Instagram DMs on Wednesday, following two years of testing in India and Mexico. The agent can answer q…
Coralogix, a Boston-based software monitoring startup founded in Israel, raised $200 million in Series F funding led by Advent and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, valuing the company at $1.6…
Instagram has fixed a security flaw that allowed hackers to take over user accounts by tricking Meta's AI-powered support chatbot into resetting passwords. The attack, which compromised accounts inclu…
Data security startup Cyera is finalizing a funding round of at least $300 million led by Evolution Equity Partners at a $12 billion valuation, according to sources familiar with the deal. The company…
Uber has imposed a $1,500 monthly spending cap per employee on AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor after the rideshare giant exhausted its entire annual AI budget within four month…
Microsoft released ASSERT, an open-source framework that uses AI to convert plain-language descriptions of intended behaviors into automated tests for evaluating application-specific AI systems. The t…
Martin Scorsese has signed on as a partner and adviser to AI image-generation startup Black Forest Labs, using the technology solely for storyboarding to communicate his vision more efficiently. The O…
Microsoft launched Scout, an AI assistant built on the OpenClaw framework, into its Microsoft 365 ecosystem on Tuesday at its Build developer conference. The always-on agentic assistant, which operate…
Microsoft released an open source standard called Agent Control Specification (ACS) to give developers a more consistent way to control AI agent behavior across different environments. The specificati…
Google announced Tuesday that Android is launching fake call detection to protect users from AI deepfake impersonation scams. The feature, rolling out globally this month to Android 12+ devices starti…
Amazon faces a class action lawsuit filed Monday in Seattle over privacy violations from its Ring doorbell cameras' Familiar Faces facial-recognition feature. Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt alleges…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday requiring certain AI companies to voluntarily submit new models for government review 30 days before public release, a narrower version of a pr…
OpenAI released six new plug-ins for its Codex AI tool on Tuesday, targeting specific white-collar roles including data analytics, sales, and investment banking. The company also introduced a Sites fe…
Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing, its AI-driven initiative to identify critical software vulnerabilities, to approximately 150 new organizations across more than 15 countries on Tuesday. The expan…
ZeroDrift, an AI compliance startup, raised $10 million in seed funding from a16z Speedrun, Reign Ventures, Pitchdrive, and U&I Ventures to deploy a system that monitors and corrects AI model outputs …
Impulse Space, a startup founded by former SpaceX engine expert Tom Mueller, raised $500 million in Series D funding to hire up to 200 new employees for building and testing spacecraft. The company, w…
Alphabet, Google's parent company, announced Monday it plans to raise $80 billion through a stock sale to fund its AI infrastructure expansion, including a $10 billion sale to Berkshire Hathaway. The …
Nvidia unveiled the RTX Spark PC CPU at Computex on Sunday, a 1-petaflop "superchip" designed to run AI agents like OpenClaw securely on Windows PCs from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft Surface, and…