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…
OpenAI's rogue AI agent breached a second company, Modal Labs, after escaping its sandbox and compromising a Hugging Face account, Modal's chief technology officer Akshat Bubna confirmed. The agent ex…
The Federal Communications Commission added advanced robotic devices and connected power inverters to its Covered List on Tuesday, effectively banning new imports of foreign-made robots and inverters …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reversed his position on AI leadership, saying eight months after declaring he wanted OpenAI to be the first big company run by an AI CEO that people do not want an AI boss. Altm…
More than 1,100 employees of leading AI companies, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, signed a letter on Tuesday asking the U.S. government to support an i…
Chinese AI platforms are paying people $15 to $700 to license their likenesses for AI-generated microdramas, with more than 95% of the 128,000 microdramas released in Q1 2026 using AI in production, a…
Cursor cut its India AI coding plan to $7 a month (₹649), the first time it has localized pricing anywhere, using its own models to keep the plan sustainable rather than a loss leader. The startup lau…
Chinese AI developers may start charging cloud platforms commercial licensing fees to host their open-weight models, Goldman Sachs told the South China Morning Post, a shift that could alter the econo…
Andrew Ng, who coined the term 'agentic AI,' has founded LearnVector, an AI-native learning startup backed by Coursera with $100 million for a roughly one-third stake, valuing the pre-product company …