Google has been silently downloading its 4GB Gemini Nano AI model onto Chrome users' devices without consent since at least April, while a malicious Chrome extension disguised as Perplexity AI logged …
Google made Gemini's personalized AI image generation free for all eligible US users aged 13 and older, removing the paywall that previously restricted the feature to paid subscribers. The feature, bu…
Germany is awarding a €580mn contract to Munich AI firm Helsing to build the software brain for its future air warfare system, the Combat Fighter System Nucleus, after the joint Franco-German fighter …
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a deal with Anthropic giving all state agencies access to the Claude AI assistant at half price, making Anthropic the state's first official AI partner. The …
Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard that began as a UC Berkeley research project, has reached $100 million in annualized revenue eight months after launching its paid evaluation service. The platfo…
Cursor launched an iOS app that lets developers launch and manage AI coding agents from their phone, connecting to the desktop version for remote supervision. The move signals a shift toward mobile-fi…
TIDAL will tag fully AI-generated music with an AI badge, block it from royalties and direct-to-fan sales, and remove AI tracks that impersonate artists, effective July 15. The streaming service aims …
Yimao Zhou, 23-year-old founder of Emagen AI, argues that current AI agent startups are making teams more fragmented by focusing on individual productivity rather than coordination. His product Cagen,…
Omen AI raised $31 million in Series A funding on June 29 to monitor water quality in AI data centers, addressing bacterial contamination in liquid cooling systems. The round was led by Nava Ventures,…
Google Cloud will offer specialist AI models from SandboxAQ, called large quantitative models, through its marketplace, pairing them with Gemini to serve scientific fields like drug discovery and mate…
RELX announced a new £100 million share buyback for July, part of its planned £2.25 billion in repurchases for 2026, as the data and analytics company returns surplus capital to shareholders. The buyb…
Chinese self-driving software firm Momenta opened its Hong Kong IPO on Monday, seeking up to $752 million to fund AI research and robotaxi development. The GM-backed company, valued at nearly $9 billi…
Flock Safety's surveillance cameras, including AI-powered license plate readers and audio-detection poles, are rapidly spreading across the US, logging every car and enabling law enforcement to search…
Google's Earthquake Alerts system warned 11.4 million people in Venezuela before two major quakes struck on Wednesday, providing up to two minutes of warning. The system uses accelerometers in Android…
South Korea announced a $880 billion investment plan over a decade to dominate the AI era, focusing on semiconductors, AI data centers, and robots. President Lee Jae Myung unveiled the package on Mond…
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, raised $7.4 billion in the largest first-time funding round by a Chinese startup, driven by US export restrictions and competition with Anthropic's Mythos model. China now …
OpenAI is considering delaying its initial public offering until 2027 to achieve a $1 trillion valuation, according to a Bloomberg report. The delay has caused SoftBank's shares to drop 13% and affect…
Berlin-based Peec AI is raising new funding at a $200M pre-money valuation, double its worth eight months ago, as it bets on generative engine optimization (GEO) replacing traditional SEO. The startup…
Amazon Web Services raised prices for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by 20% starting in July, the second increase in six months, citing supply and demand for Nvidia GPUs amid a memory crunch. The hike aff…
Mirendil, a startup founded by former Anthropic researchers Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, raised $200 million in seed funding at a $1 billion valuation to build a self-improving AI platform. The c…