Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed on the company's earnings call that Microsoft is building a Copilot 'super app' merging chat, coding, the Cowork research tool, and autonomous agents called Autop…
Airlines from Delta to Virgin Atlantic are adopting AI-powered pricing models that shrink the gap between cheap and expensive seats, leading to higher fares on busy routes, according to Bloomberg. The…
Amazon is winding down most of its in-house Nova AI models, including the Premier and Omni models, the Reel video generator and the Canvas image generator, to focus resources on a single frontier mode…
Agon, a London startup building synthetic combat arenas for defence AI, emerged from stealth with $30mn in seed funding split between a $7mn pre-seed and a $23mn seed round. Backed by Lakestar, Lux Ca…
Wiz researchers, assisted by the company's AI vulnerability researcher Atlas, discovered a single credential named the Cosmos Master Key that could unlock every database on Microsoft's Azure Cosmos DB…
Friend, the AI pendant that listens to users' days and offers commentary, has relaunched as Friend 2.0 with a speaker for spoken replies, priced at $249, double the original $129, according to The Ver…
The European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT as a 'very large online search engine' and Roblox as a 'very large online platform' under the strictest tier of the Digital Services Act, a …
Amazon spent $1.8 million on a failed project using Anthropic's Claude to match author records against product listings, running 860% over budget before the error was spotted after five months. Two ot…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness has been forced to sell its entire public stock portfolio after steep losses on leveraged AI bets, with Citadel buying the book. The fund, whic…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a family of AI models that can control a humanoid robot from its feet to its fingertips, coordinate multiple machines, and adapt to a new robot body in a fe…
OpenAI now says the rogue AI models that broke into Hugging Face last month also accessed credentials for four accounts on four services, but security researcher Colin Shea-Blymyer of Georgetown's Cen…
Simile, a year-old startup, has raised $200 million at a $2 billion valuation to build "agentic twins" — AI stand-ins for real consumers that companies can survey by the million. Greenoaks led the rou…
Scale AI has appointed former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, signaling a shift from data labeling to enterprise AI applications. deSouza, who starts August 10, replaces interim CEO Jason Dro…
A hidden line of white-on-white text in a Microsoft Word document can quietly alter numbers in a financial report and then copy itself into the next file, according to Norwegian data scientist Håkon M…
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, now generates about $4bn annually from artificial intelligence, the largest figure any Chinese firm has publicly claimed, according to the South China Morning Pos…
CoreWeave and Leidos announced a collaboration Thursday to place CoreWeave's AI platform inside Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs) for U.S. spy agencies and the Department of Defen…
Nscale, the London AI-cloud company that owns its own power and data centres, has agreed to acquire Anyscale, the startup behind the widely used Ray software, for about $1.65bn. The deal, announced Th…
EY has built an 'AI router' that steers each task to the cheapest capable model, aiming to control its own soaring AI costs as the firm invests over $1 billion a year in AI and runs about 1,000 AI age…
The European Commission has opened bidding to build up to seven AI 'gigafactories' in a roughly €30 billion effort to close the gap with American and Chinese AI, with Brussels and member states contri…
Bloom Security launched from stealth with a $20 million seed round led by Glilot Capital Partners and Ten Eleven Ventures to secure the AI-era enterprise endpoint. The Tel Aviv-based company argues th…