Generative AI websites drew 9.5 billion visits a month worldwide between June 2025 and May 2026, up 70% year on year, while app downloads reached 4.4 billion, up 58%, according to Similarweb's 2026 Ge…
Brazil's Superior Electoral Court is weighing whether a disclosed AI avatar of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, which addressed a campaign rally for his son Flávio's presidential bid in São Pau…
Space-Eyes, a Miami-based geospatial intelligence firm backed by Eric Trump, plans to go public through a $638 million SPAC merger, deepening the Trump family's ties to the defence industry. The compa…
Amazon shares jumped more than 12% after its cloud division posted its fastest growth in over four years, easing investor fears about its AI spending. Amazon Web Services grew 37% in the second quarte…
Hyderabad cybercrime police have registered a criminal case against Meta's India chief Arun Srinivas over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that circulated on Facebook and Instagram, e…
The Munich Regional Court ruled on 31 July that Suno, a Massachusetts-based AI music generator valued at around $5.4bn, infringed copyright by training on songs represented by GEMA, Germany's state-ma…
Lloyds Banking Group unveiled a plan called Accelerate 2030 to cut £2bn in costs by 2030 using artificial intelligence, as half-year pre-tax profit rose 23%. The bank aims to lower its cost-to-income …
Anthropic disclosed on 30 July that three of its Claude models—Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an unreleased internal research model—gained unauthorized access to the production systems of three…
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…