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AWS commits $1B to forward-deployed engineer org as OpenAI and Anthropic scale theirs
Amazon's new FDE team will embed engineers inside customers to build agentic systems, matching a model already valued at $4B at OpenAI.
Etched hits $5B valuation with $1B booked for its AI inference chip
The Harvard-dropout founders raised $500M in December and have TSMC-manufactured silicon in customer hands.
NVIDIA wires BioNeMo into Anthropic's Claude Science workbench
The BioNeMo Agent Toolkit lets Claude agents call accelerated drug-discovery workflows directly, with one preprocessing step dropping from 52 minutes to 25 seconds.
OKX opens marketplace where AI agents hire and pay each other
The crypto exchange's 150-million-user platform now lets autonomous agents discover services, settle in stablecoins, and resolve disputes on-chain.
Base44 launches its own AI model to defend $100M ARR vibe-coding business
The Wix-owned platform is rolling out Base1, trained on tens of millions of user interactions, to cut reliance on frontier models like Opus.
Waymo and Uber end Phoenix robotaxi pilot after three years
The first market for the partnership shuts down with just over a dozen vehicles, while Austin and Atlanta scale to hundreds.
South Korea commits $1T to memory chips, AI data centers, and humanoid robots
Samsung, SK Hynix, and Hyundai anchor a national plan to double DRAM output and ship 30,000 Atlas robots a year by 2028.
Tidal stops paying royalties on AI-generated music, stops short of a ban
Fully AI-generated tracks lose royalties starting today and get a label on July 15th, but they stay on the platform.
TIDAL will demonetize fully AI-generated music starting July 15
The streaming service will tag 100% AI tracks, block royalties, and bar direct-to-fan sales — a sharper line than Spotify or Apple Music.
Samsung and SK Hynix anchor $900B South Korean AI and memory push
Seoul unveils a national plan: $518B for four new memory fabs, $52B for HBM packaging, and $356B for AI data centers through 2035.
Anthropic cuts California government a 50% discount on Claude
Governor Gavin Newsom struck a statewide deal with Anthropic as the federal government continues to freeze the company out.
Arena hits $100M run-rate eight months after launching paid evaluations
The UC Berkeley-born AI leaderboard tripled revenue from $30M in January, competing for post-training dollars against Scale AI, Mercor, and Surge.
Anthropic's Claude goes live on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra in Azure
Claude in Microsoft Foundry now runs on GB300 NVL72 systems with Quantum-X800 InfiniBand, opening Azure-native enterprises to agentic deployments.
Omen AI raises $31M to monitor data center coolant in real time
The startup's spectrometer spots bacterial growth in liquid-cooled GPU racks before it triggers five-to-six-hour shutdowns.
Proception settles Tesla trade secrets suit, raises $11M for robot hands
Ex-Optimus engineer Jay Li's startup closes a First Round-led seed and starts shipping a 22-degree-of-freedom robotic hand.
Palantir taps NVIDIA Nemotron open models for US government AI
The deal puts customizable frontier models inside air-gapped federal environments, with agencies keeping the weights they train.
China's CXMT lands $3B memory supply deal with Tencent
The deal hands a domestic Chinese memory maker its largest AI customer to date, as Tencent races to secure chips for data center buildouts.
Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin eyes $50 billion Hong Kong IPO
The AI accelerator spinout would list in Hong Kong at a valuation that rivals top global chip designers, per The Information.
Suno's Spark incubator asks artists to sign away rights and stay quiet
The AI music startup wants unsigned artists for grants and mentorship — in exchange for broad licenses, a class-action waiver, and a non-disparagement clause.
Austria lobbies EU to host Anthropic after US export curbs
Vienna pitches itself as a European base for the Claude maker as Washington's access controls reshape where frontier AI can sell.
Google restricts Meta's access to Gemini AI models
The curb signals Google treating Meta as a direct AI rival rather than a customer, per a Financial Times report.
Apple's Vision Pro chief Paul Meade is leaving for OpenAI's hardware team
Meade, who also led Apple's planned AI smart glasses, joins an OpenAI hardware push already staffed by Jony Ive.
Apple raises Mac, iPad, and HomePod prices, blames AI memory crunch
Tim Cook calls the hikes unavoidable as AI data centers outbid consumer device makers for RAM — even with Apple posting four straight record quarters.
OpenAI hires Uber India chief Prabhjeet Singh to run its second-largest market
The first India MD will report to APAC chief Kiran Mani as OpenAI races Anthropic and Microsoft for more than 1 billion internet users.
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