Runlayer, a New York AI-security startup backed by Khosla Ventures, sued Rippling on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, alleging trade-secret theft, unfair competition, and breach of contract after R…
The Trump administration exempted data-center power plants from the Clean Air Act's Acid Rain Program and proposed waiving environmental reviews for commercial rocket launches, citing national competi…
Apple became the second company in history to reach a $5tn market value on Tuesday, touching $5.04tn, by refusing to heavily invest in AI while rivals like Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft spend …
The AI coding market is shifting from model competition to the 'harness' layer, the software that routes coding tasks to models, as enterprises push back on price hikes from tools like Cursor. Cursor,…
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a seed round and reports $21m in annual recurring revenue from more than 8 million users. The company gives away its best models and charge…
The Linux Foundation's x402 initiative, backed by over 40 organizations including Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe, aims to create internet-native payment standards for software, enabling AI agents to mak…
Act Security emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $60 million in funding, arguing that AI has made traditional patching obsolete. The Israeli startup, founded by the team that sold Medigate to Claroty…
NextEra Energy and Brookfield plan to build a data-centre campus in Kentucky worth as much as $100 billion, Bloomberg reported, marking one of the largest single commitments in the U.S. build-out of c…
Apple launched Apple Upgrade in the US on Tuesday, a device leasing program run by Klarna that covers iPhone, Apple Watch, Mac and iPad starting at $17.99 a month, replacing the iPhone Upgrade Program…
Britain's Competition and Markets Authority has opened an investigation into whether Microsoft misled 365 Personal and Family customers when it raised prices and bundled in its Copilot AI assistant. T…
ChipAgents, a startup building AI agents that design and test semiconductors and a partner of Nvidia, has raised $60 million, bringing its total funding to roughly $134 million in under a year. The co…
Recursive, Richard Socher's AI lab, has committed about $410 million to a multi-year cloud contract with Amazon Web Services, roughly two-thirds of its total $650 million raised. The company, which em…
Visa is cutting about 2,600 jobs, roughly 7% of its staff, mostly from technology and product teams, and reinvesting the savings into consumer payments, cross-border activity, business payments and st…
Options traders are pricing a roughly $190 billion swing in Microsoft's market value after its fiscal fourth-quarter results, implying a 6.6% move either way, well above the average 4.8% priced over t…
China's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, published draft rules on 29 July to combat cyberbullying, including abuse generated with artificial intelligence. The rules require …
Observability startup groundcover has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by One Peak, with Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and existing backers participating, bringing total funding to $160 …
Freehand, a startup whose AI agents manage supply-chain procurement for Unilever, Pfizer, and Meta, has raised $75 million in a round co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners. The compa…
The EU is set to ban nudify apps, but a new report from AI Forensics argues the ban misses the point because the tools that undress people are hosted on Hugging Face. The nonprofit tested seven of the…
Modus has raised $10 million in a seed round led by Insight Partners to launch the Context Warehouse, an infrastructure layer that captures how business information is actually used to give AI systems…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the Financial Times that the US should not block Chinese AI models, arguing that banning advanced Chinese AI is 'not an effective solution' and that the US should instead…