OpenAI has hired Apple's Vision Pro chief Paul Meade to lead its hardware unit, marking the most senior Apple defection yet. Meade will work on OpenAI's planned family of AI-powered devices, rejoining…
Germany is promoting artificial intelligence as a solution to its worker shortage, with over half of German firms now using or planning to use generative AI by year-end. A homebuilder cut invoice proc…
A coalition owning nearly 400 local US newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft on June 24 in Manhattan federal court, alleging the companies copied hundreds of thousands of articles without permission to…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has agreed to supply Tencent with roughly $3 billion of memory chips, according to sources, in a deal that would bind one of China's largest cloud operators to its …
Austria's state secretary for digitalisation, Alexander Pröll, has formally asked the European Union to explore hosting US AI company Anthropic within the bloc, following a US Commerce Department orde…
Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion Hong Kong IPO and has asked prospective investors to commit to purchasing its semiconductors, blurring the line between shareholder and custom…
Firmus Technologies, an Australian AI infrastructure company valued at $5.5 billion, will build a 360MW Nvidia DSX AI Factory in Batam, Indonesia, with up to 170,000 Nvidia AI accelerator chips. The c…
University of Ottawa researchers built an AI assistant called UbiMyTherapist that reads heart rate variability, speech tone, and text from smartwatches and earbuds to detect emotional distress and off…
Micron Technology briefly surpassed Meta and Tesla in market valuation, reaching a $1.27 trillion market cap after its stock surged 236% in a month. The company's revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion …
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislators agreed on a $351.7 billion budget that extends sales tax to prewritten software downloaded from the web, raising $2 billion annually startin…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that an AI investment bust could disrupt credit markets as severely as the 2008 financial crisis, citing circular financing and poorly disclosed risks in …
The auto repair industry, with 280,000 largely undigitized shops in the US, is seeing a convergence of AI receptionists, predictive scheduling, and private equity rollups targeting a $3.4 billion soft…
Google has capped Meta's access to its Gemini AI models due to computing capacity constraints, forcing Meta to shift workloads to its own Muse Spark model and instruct staff to use AI tokens more effi…
NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe said AI will drive India's UPI from 750 million to a billion daily transactions through fraud detection, credit distribution, and voice-based onboarding. PhonePe and Google Pay con…
Salesforce employees are confused and concerned after the company publicly promoted Anthropic's Claude Tag, an AI agent that competes directly with Salesforce's own Slackbot and Agentforce platform in…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promoted 33-year-old Jacob Andreou to EVP of Copilot after just one year at the company, giving him oversight of 11,000 employees. Andreou has merged consumer and enterpris…
Cloudflare's engineering team grew 45% to 1,894 after cutting 1,100 jobs in May, as CEO Matthew Prince says AI eliminates "measurer" roles while builders and sellers thrive. The pattern, confirmed by …
AI executives who funded Donald Trump's deregulation campaign are now pleading for formal regulation after the administration imposed chaotic export controls on Anthropic and forced a government-manag…
OpenAI has appointed former Uber India president Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, effective September. Singh will oversee growth, partnerships, and regulatory engagement in Op…
Trustpilot partnered with Shopify to embed reviews in merchant stores as AI search click-throughs surged 1,490 percent in FY25. The integration lets Shopify merchants display and manage Trustpilot rev…