SpaceX's stock surged nearly 50% since its IPO, making its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor cheaper in terms of dilution. Bill Ackman highlighted the dynamic as a core part of SpaceX's valu…
A Pew Research Center survey of 5,119 US adults found that 49% now use AI chatbots, but 40% believe AI will harm society, 67% distrust government regulation, and 59% distrust companies to develop AI r…
Over one million Dutch adults now rely solely on social media for news, yet only 12% trust what they see there, according to the 2026 Digital News Report. News interest in the Netherlands has dropped …
Arcade.dev raised $60 million in Series A funding led by SYN Ventures, with participation from Morgan Stanley and Wipro, to develop an authorization layer that controls what enterprise AI agents are a…
Perion CEO Tal Jacobson argues that chief marketing officers lack credible answers to CFOs' demands for proof of advertising ROI due to fragmented marketing technology infrastructure that measures act…
China's State Council issued a five-year employment plan on June 17 that prioritizes tracking artificial intelligence's impact on jobs, ordering research into a monitoring system and early-warning mec…
Poland's state development bank BGK, through its venture arm Vinci, acquired an $11 million stake in AI-voice company ElevenLabs, valued at $11 billion, and launched AI Lab Poland to support domestic …
Convey, an AI startup founded by a former DoorDash employee, raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to sell AI 'teammates' instead of agents, aiming to automate back-office …
Conduct, a London-based AI startup founded by former Palantir engineers, raised a $60mn Series A co-led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ, with SAP investing. The company builds an AI operating system that…
Google announced its first new smart speaker in six years, the $99 Google Home Speaker, which ships June 25. The device is built around Gemini for Home, but key features like Gemini Live and Home Brie…
The US Department of Commerce awarded AI startup SandboxAQ $500 million under the CHIPS Act to develop new semiconductor materials, reducing reliance on Chinese supply chains. The government takes an …
Estonia plans to issue personal identification numbers to AI assistants, becoming the first nation to do so, Prime Minister Kristen Michal announced. The IDs aim to give agents limited, controllable, …
The Pentagon disclosed in a federal court filing that Elon Musk's Grok chatbot helped strike 2,000 targets in Iran within 96 hours, using the claim to defend xAI against a Clean Air Act lawsuit over a…
Paradromics has implanted its Connexus brain-computer interface in the first participant of its FDA-approved clinical study, a Michigan woman with motor neuron disease who has lost the ability to spea…
Twenty, a startup building AI-enabled offensive cyber weapons for the US military and intelligence community, raised a $100 million Series B led by Accel, valuing it at $1 billion. The company aims to…
Jeff Bezos is backing CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge startup that uses AI to design new materials, in a funding round that values the company at $2.6bn. The round, led by Bezos Expeditions and Klein…
Odyssey, an AI lab building real-time world models, raised $310 million in Series B funding led by Natural Capital, with Amazon, AMD Ventures, Google's GV, EQT, and In-Q-Tel participating. The round n…
AT&T has begun limiting some employees' access to GitHub Copilot, and Meta is reining in staff spending on Anthropic and other AI tools, marking a shift from 'tokenmaxxing' to 'tokenminimizing' as ent…
Microsoft is considering integrating a self-hosted, fine-tuned version of China's DeepSeek V4 open-source model into its Copilot Cowork assistant to reduce costs, as agentic AI usage drives up compute…
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch has spent two years warning that US AI models could be switched off by the US government, and a recent US order forcing Anthropic to cut foreign access to its models proved h…