World Foundation raised $52 million in a locked token sale led by Pantera Capital to expand World ID, its iris-scan-based proof-of-human system, as integrations with Zoom, Docusign, Okta, and Tinder a…
Twenty-five companies and groups, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral, Palantir, IBM, Andreessen Horowitz, Hugging Face, Mozilla and the Linux Foundation, published an open letter urging Washin…
Meta has withdrawn from RE100, the global corporate clean energy initiative it joined a decade ago, after the Climate Group confirmed the company can no longer meet the program's technical criteria du…
OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT Health to all logged-in US adults on Thursday, allowing the chatbot to connect to Apple Health data and medical records for personalized health conversations. OpenAI v…
Meta launched Seller, a standalone iOS app for Facebook Marketplace power sellers that uses Meta AI to generate titles, descriptions, and prices from a single photo, and includes a unified inbox and p…
Anthropic upgraded Claude's voice mode to run on its most capable models, Opus and Sonnet, enabling deeper reasoning and tool access for tasks like scheduling, email drafting, and document creation. T…
Patreon cut 93 employees, about 20% of its workforce, on Thursday, but CEO Jack Conte insisted the layoffs are not because AI is replacing humans. Conte said the company needs a leaner cost base to na…
Microsoft is replacing OpenAI's image-generating models with its own MAI technology in PowerPoint and Bing, citing 85% lower costs, and will phase out SMS-based logins for its Entra ID service by Febr…
Meta is banning Instagram videos shot on its Ray-Ban smart glasses that harass people, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced last week, after the glasses earned the nickname 'pervert glasses' for bein…
Nearly 200 US startups, organized as the Little Tech Association, urged the Trump administration not to block American access to Chinese open-weight AI models, warning a ban would gut the next wave of…
Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday, requiring developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain technical means to shut down models capable of catast…
Dassault Systèmes, whose shares have fallen about 25% this year amid investor fears that AI could disrupt its core business, announced Thursday it will spend up to $2 billion to acquire ArisGlobal, a …
President Donald Trump on July 23 expanded the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, a voluntary scheme asking AI data centre builders such as Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI to fund t…
TechEx Europe 2026 will take place on 19–20th October 2026 at the RAI in Amsterdam, bringing together more than 8,000 technology professionals for eight co-located conferences covering AI, cybersecuri…
AMD has partnered with Foundation, a San Francisco startup backed by Eric Trump, to supply processors for humanoid robots used in heavy industry and military applications. Under the deal announced Jul…
Genesis AI, a startup building foundation models for robots, is in talks to raise about $500 million at a pre-money valuation of roughly $3 billion, according to Bloomberg. The round, which could be l…
Nvidia has agreed to give Amkor Technology a $1.5 billion prepayment to expand advanced semiconductor packaging and testing in the United States, tightening a supply relationship that already sits beh…
Elon Musk told investors on Tesla's Q2 earnings call that the Optimus humanoid robot will be the hardest product Tesla has ever scaled, warning that it has no existing supply chain and every component…
AMD launched MI455X chips, Helios racks, and Venice Epyc CPUs at its Advancing AI event, with OpenAI and Cerebras pledging to deploy the hardware at scale. CEO Lisa Su predicted the total addressable …
Cathedral, a stealth military cybersecurity startup founded by four former Department of Government Efficiency staffers, has raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Se…