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Nscale buys Anyscale for $1.65B to own more of the AI compute stack
The British neocloud adds Ray-based workload orchestration to a stack that already spans energy, data centers, and GPU capacity.
Meta says AI is letting it ship standalone apps faster, with more coming
Zuckerberg told investors LLMs are compressing product development as Threads hits 500M monthly users on the way to a targeted billion.
Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the US infrastructure boom
The Khosla-backed startup is already running compliance on 700 construction projects, from data centers to manufacturing plants.
Shift AI pays for private chefs to film cooking as robot training data
Microagi's Shift division sends camera-hatted chefs into homes in exchange for egocentric video to train humanoid robots.
Zuckerberg tells investors billions will have personal AI agents within five years
Meta's CEO frames personal agents as the next revenue engine as Reality Labs losses hit $88B and free cash flow drops 91% year over year.
Microsoft pitches its own AI models against OpenAI and Anthropic
Satya Nadella tells enterprises to stop trusting single frontier labs, pushing MAI models and Maya chips as cheaper swaps.
Meta free cash flow collapses to $784M as capex hits $31B, stock drops 10%
Zuckerberg hints at a cloud business but says selling raw compute would be 'foolish'; full-year capex guidance now runs up to $145B.
Microsoft confirms Copilot 'super app' merging chat, code and agents this quarter
Satya Nadella says the unified Copilot will span consumer and commercial use, arriving as Microsoft posts $90B in quarterly revenue.
Zuckerberg pitches Meta as enterprise AI vendor selling APIs, agents and compute
On Meta's Q2 earnings call, Zuckerberg outlined a pay-for-results enterprise business spanning agents, APIs, compute resale and internal productivity tools.
Microsoft books $3.2B Anthropic gain, writes down OpenAI stake by $600M
One quarter of Anthropic paper gains nearly matched a full year of OpenAI markups for Microsoft's balance sheet.
Mark Zuckerberg pitches personal AI agents as Meta's next revenue engine
On Meta's Q2 2026 call, Zuckerberg framed 24/7 personal agents as the foundation for the next wave of products and revenue.
Lilian Weng leaves Thinking Machines citing health, rejoins OpenAI days later
The co-founder cited stress and workload in her exit note, then surfaced at OpenAI to lead a team on recursive self-improvement.
OpenAI is building a 'family of devices' for its AI, Greg Brockman says
The company president confirmed hardware plans are broader than a single product, sidestepping questions on a rumored 2027 smart speaker.
Encore AI raises $30M to turn sales call transcripts into voice agents
The Team8-led Series A backs a pitch that CRM giants can't easily copy: agents trained on which conversations actually closed.
Martha Stewart co-founds Hint, an AI assistant for homeowners, with $10M in funding
The iOS app builds a profile of the home from public data and manages maintenance schedules, with Stewart holding equity and shipping weekly product feedback.
Pangram raises $9M to detect AI-generated text with 99% accuracy
The New York startup ships Pangram 4 and an image detector as arXiv, Substack, and Quora move to flag AI-written content.
Runlayer sues Rippling, alleging it cloned MCP gateway after year-long trial
The $42M-backed startup says Rippling copied its product after seeing the source code; Rippling calls the claims a panicked reaction to business failures.
Google lifts AI capex to $205B, rattling Wall Street on data-center returns
A $15B jump from last quarter's projection lands as Nvidia, Oracle, and OpenAI deals stretch the AI build-out's financing further.
Fish Audio raises $52M seed at $21M ARR for AI voice models
The Palo Alto startup has 8 million users and 15,000 natural-language voice controls, with three of its five models open-sourced.
PJM will cut power to data centers during shortages starting June 2027
The largest US grid operator will curtail supply to 50MW-plus data centers as capacity auctions fall short and prices double.
Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M AWS compute deal, plans October product launch
The stealth-exit lab founded by Richard Socher is spending most of its $650M raise on compute, betting on self-improving systems over headcount.
Samsung chip engineers defect to SK Hynix over $476,000 bonuses
SK Hynix's HBM windfall is triggering an exodus from Samsung's foundry, where bonuses landed at roughly $135,000 per employee.
Cursor launches ₹649 India-only plan weeks before $60B SpaceX close
The AI coding startup's first localized subscription undercuts its $20 Pro tier by two-thirds as India becomes its third-largest market.
Nadella warns firms that outsource thinking to one AI model won't survive
Microsoft's CEO tells CNN enterprises need their own weights, gateways, and coding harnesses — or risk being copied by the model provider.
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