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Microsoft executive Jacob Andreou, 33, successfully ordered a McDonald's cheeseburger using the company's AI tool Copilot Tasks, demonstrating the product's capabilities. CEO Satya Nadella has entrusted Andreou to lead C…
The Federal Trade Commission cleared Elon Musk to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by former SpaceX engineers that makes optical transceivers for AI data centers. The startup, which raised $50 million…
Lloyds Banking Group is recruiting nearly 300 agentic AI-related roles and offering one of the first Level 6 AI Engineering apprenticeships by a UK bank. Over 400,000 AI Academy courses have been taken since January, wit…
Six former Google employees told Business Insider they left the company due to FOMO during the AI boom, uncertain job security from layoffs, and the desire for greater equity upside at startups or AI companies like OpenA…
Jason Lemkin, known as the 'Godfather of SaaS,' said he will only invest in companies that require employees to work in the office six days a week, arguing that remote work leads to failure. He echoed Flexport CEO Ryan P…
Apple has lobbied the Trump administration for permission to buy memory chips from Chinese manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), which is blacklisted by the Pentagon, as the AI boom drives up semiconductor pr…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said every company should build its own AI model tailored to its business, warning that relying on a few frontier models poses long-term economic risks. He emphasized that firms cannot outsour…
The Orient Express brand, owned by Accor and LVMH, launched its first giant yacht targeting ultra-wealthy clients, aiming to capitalize on a surge of new billionaires from the AI boom. Accor CEO Sebastien Bazin said the …
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate crossed $47 billion as of early May 2026, tracking toward $50 billion by late June, driven by over 1,000 enterprises each spending more than $1 million annually on Claude. The grow…
Steve Eisman, the investor famous for shorting the housing market before the 2008 crash, warns that investors are buying the wrong AI stocks. He criticizes SpaceX's valuation at over 100 times revenue, comparing its reve…
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an open-weight AI model that performs within one percentage point of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on agentic benchmarks while costing roughly one-fifth as much, according to CNBC. The company positions the…
A developer tracked API costs across 184 models over 18 months, spending $340,000 in credits. The data reveals that direct provider pricing can be 40x cheaper than GPT-4o, but operational friction and compliance costs of…
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon unveiled a five-year plan to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI chips for data centers, projecting over $15 billion in annual AI component sales by fiscal 2029. The company also announced the …
OpenClaw Launch introduces a managed AI agent service deployable in 30 seconds without installation or coding, offering integrations with email, calendar, Slack, and support for multiple AI providers including OpenAI, An…
Dhravya Shah raised approximately $3 million in seed funding for Supermemory, a startup building a universal memory API for AI applications. The round was led by Susa Ventures, Browder Capital, and SF1.vc, with backing f…
A developer who spent five months building an audience for XEdge decided to sell AI stack research services directly to that audience instead of waiting for Fiverr gigs to gain traction. The developer opened three paid s…
Reflection AI committed $150 million per month to SpaceX for Nvidia GB300 chips at the Colossus 2 data center, totaling $6.3 billion through 2029, in the largest infrastructure bet on open-weight frontier AI. The startup…
Agent Idea Hub launches a database of 129 ranked AI agent blueprints with market scores, build guides, and monetization models, targeting builders who want to create vertical agents that solve real customer problems. The…
The Washington Post reports the US government will decide who can use state-of-the-art large language models, following bans on Fable and restrictions on ChatGPT 5.6. The author predicts Chinese models like DeepSeek will…
The Utah Mammoth acquired goaltender Sebastian Cossa from the Detroit Red Wings for the 23rd overall pick in the NHL draft. Cossa, a 6-foot-7 former first-round pick, posted a .915 save percentage in the AHL last season …