Fora, a platform that lets ordinary people become travel agents, has raised a $60m Series D at a $1bn valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, with total funding reaching $138.5m. The company…
Roblox launched Build, a mobile-first AI creation tab that generates playable games from text prompts, starting alpha testing in New Zealand on July 28 for users aged nine and older. The feature, powe…
S&P downgraded Oracle to BBB- on July 9, one notch above junk, as a $250 billion data-centre expansion plan burns through cash, with free cash flow turning deeply negative at nearly -$24 billion in th…
Google is months behind schedule on delivering the next version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Pro, because the technology has fallen short of internal goals in coding, Bloomberg reported citing 10 …
The European Commission ordered Google on Thursday to open Android to rival AI assistants and share its search data with competitors under the Digital Markets Act. Google must let users choose a prefe…
Researchers at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have restored hand movement and the sense of touch to Keith Thomas, a man paralysed from the chest down, using a "double neural bypass" tha…
Verizon is laying off about 3,000 retail workers and transferring 274 corporate stores to independent owners under CEO Dan Schulman, who expects AI to replace a large percentage of customer service wo…
Twenty-nine countries signed an agreement on 16 July to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization (WAICO), an intergovernmental body proposed by China to promote international cooperation and gl…
Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and expanding cloud code execution to Pro subscribers, the company announced Thursday. The rebrand reflects deeper integration across Google Search and…
Xpeng launched the L03 coupe-SUV across 65 markets on Wednesday in Munich, making it the first Chinese EV to ship proprietary Turing AI chips as standard on every trim. The vehicle carries up to three…
Fireworks raised $1.5bn in Series D funding at a $17.5bn valuation to build specialized AI models for companies, arguing that businesses will build their own intelligence rather than rent it from big …
Sable raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC to build Aidan, an AI system that runs live product demonstrations and replaces sales development workflows. The less-than-year-old startup trains…
Bunkerhill Health raised $55M in total funding, including a $25M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, to deploy AI agents inside hospitals through its Carebricks platform. The startup grew revenue 20-fold…
Microsoft is overhauling its cybersecurity business around AI, cutting several hundred jobs and merging engineering teams under new security chief Hayete Gallot, who took over in February and reports …
Oak, an Israeli startup, raised $60 million in seed funding to build an AI-native identity operating system that governs every identity in a firm, including humans, machines, and AI agents. The round …
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman launched Ode with Anthropic, a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services firm that focuses on implementing AI models inside large companies rather than building…
Vint Cerf, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol and former Google executive, has joined the advisory council of Innovation Labs, a division of Identity Digital, to develop an open identity layer for AI …
Hemispheric, a Tel Aviv-based NeuroAI startup co-founded by a Face ID inventor, emerged from stealth with $52M to develop Descartes, a 6-billion-parameter AI model trained on 250,000 hours of brain re…
Microsoft shipped its largest-ever Patch Tuesday update, fixing a record 622 vulnerabilities, and the company says AI-powered discovery tools are driving the surge. Fifty-eight flaws are critical, inc…
Nokia and Nvidia have built the industry's first commercial AI-RAN platform, aiming to double network capacity by 2028. Nokia says the AI-native radio access network can lift spectral efficiency by mo…