Rob Hanna, CEO of Precision Content, argues that enterprise AI initiatives fail because organizations treat language like structured data while neglecting content governance. He says technical publica…
Amazon Web Services announced a $1 billion investment on June 30, 2026 to create a Forward Deployed Engineering unit that will embed thousands of its engineers inside customer companies to help build …
Meta paid hundreds of contractors through a firm called Covalen to pose as teenagers and probe rival AI chatbots, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Character.AI, using over 45,000 promp…
Chamath Palihapitiya's AI coding startup 8090 raised $135 million in a Series A round led by Salesforce, with Palihapitiya taking the CEO role. The company sells a governed software factory platform t…
US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn on Prime Day, with AI chatbot referrals converting 40% better than search, email, or social media for the first time. Adobe data shows AI-referred traffic to retail …
AI chip startup Etched raised $800 million from investors including Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund, with $1 billion in sales contracts secured. The company plans to ship its Sohu inference chip th…
X launched a hosted Model Context Protocol server that lets AI tools like Claude and Cursor connect directly to its API using user account permissions, eliminating the need for developers to build cus…
Jon and Mindy Gray donated $55 million to create the Basser Cancer Interception Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, which will use artificial intelligence and biomarkers to detect and interce…
SAP is handing oversight of its AI product and engineering functions to CEO Christian Klein and COO Thomas Saueressig in its second top-level reorganisation this year, as the company scrambles to keep…
Vertical AI startups like Harvey ($11B) and Abridge have proven that wrapping a foundation model with proprietary data and domain workflow logic creates billion-dollar companies. Agriculture is the ne…
Visa forecasts 2.6% global economic growth in 2026, citing a surge in business investment in artificial intelligence and clean energy, along with digital commerce helping to contain inflation, as cons…
Shares of call-center operators Concentrix and Teleperformance plunged after Concentrix cut its 2026 revenue forecast and reported falling profits, reinforcing investor fears that AI-powered automatio…
Meituan launched LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on domestically developed chips, claiming it as the first of its scale to achieve end-to-end training on Chinese silico…
Panasonic plans to localise production of data-centre battery cells in Kansas by fiscal 2028, redirecting a large slice of its AI infrastructure investment toward storage. The Japanese group aims to c…
Meta has imposed strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, fearing inadvertent model distillation that could breach rivals' terms of ser…
David Hardoon, Standard Chartered's former global head of AI enablement, has joined Accenture as managing director and head of advanced AI for Southeast Asia. The move reflects growing demand for AI e…
Digital Realty agreed to buy Blackstone's majority stake in three fully leased Virginia data centres for $7.8 billion, paying $3.5 billion for a 64% equity interest. The deal underscores surging deman…
Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen claimed on Joe Rogan's podcast that ChatGPT outperforms 99% of doctors, but peer-reviewed studies contradict him. A Nature Medicine study found OpenAI's ChatGPT He…
Apple announced it is releasing security updates earlier than its traditional annual cycle, citing artificial intelligence's role in accelerating the development of hacking tools. The company told Reu…
Straiker, an agentic security startup, raised $64 million in Series A funding to secure AI agents in enterprises. The company's platform detects, tests, and monitors AI agents to prevent attacks, as t…