Business — page 20
Nvidia rolls out Halos OS as robotaxis launch in Munich, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia
Uber, Foxconn, VinFast and HUMAIN sign on to DRIVE Hyperion as Nvidia pitches a safety-certified OS for autonomous fleets.
Microsoft blocks Claude Fable 5 for internal use over Anthropic retention rules
Anthropic's new safety classifiers retain prompts for 30 days, breaking Microsoft's zero-data-retention policy for employee tools.
Top 1% of US firms now spend $7,500 per employee monthly on AI
Ramp's latest index pegs the median at $11.38 — but the heaviest users are pushing token budgets toward engineer-salary territory.
Niteshift raises $7M to keep AI coding agents off frontier labs' rails
Two early Datadog engineers pitch a model-agnostic coding cloud as Anthropic and OpenAI push deeper into vertical software.
Jedify raises $24M to feed AI agents enterprise context graphs
Norwest leads the Series A; Snowflake joins as a strategic investor and is wiring Jedify into Cortex AI.
Google makes Gemini the main sponsor of Argentina's World Cup squad
Gemini's logo lands on the Albiceleste's training kit, with parallel deals signed for Brazil and France ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Meta strikes first India AI data center deal with Reliance in Jamnagar
A 168-megawatt facility in Gujarat extends a partnership that began with Meta's $5.7B Jio investment in 2020.
Google cuts AI Plus to $4.99 a month, opening a US price war
Google halves storage cost and undercuts ChatGPT Plus by 75%, importing a pricing fight that started in India.
Nvidia Blackwell GPUs land inside Apple's Private Cloud Compute on Google Cloud
Apple is extending its server-side Apple Intelligence stack onto Nvidia Confidential Computing running on Google Cloud infrastructure.
GM activates vehicle-to-grid on 250,000 EVs to help absorb AI data center demand
A firmware update turns existing Chevy, Cadillac, and GMC EVs into grid batteries as utilities brace for AI-driven load growth.
Cheaper AI models start eating frontier workloads as inference costs bite
Coinbase's Brian Armstrong predicts 80% of AI workloads shift to 99% cheaper models within 18 months, threatening OpenAI and Anthropic economics.
Lovable hits $500M ARR as users build 1M projects a week
The European vibe-coding startup added $100M in annualized revenue since February, with non-technical users building CRMs, storefronts, and HR tools.
Sandstone raises $30M to bring AI to in-house legal teams
Lightspeed leads a Series A six months after a $10M seed, targeting corporate legal departments rather than law firms.
Google DeepMind picks 15 European robotics startups for AI accelerator
A three-month London program gives founders access to Gemini robotics models, with cohort spanning healthcare microrobots to ocean autonomy.
Spin founder raises $5M to build space data centers at Orbital
Euwyn Poon's new company plans 10,000 satellites delivering a gigawatt of inference compute — once Starship is flying commercially.
Wipro's HR AI agent cuts response time from 48 hours to 5 seconds
Agentic AI adoption is set to surge 300% in two years, with 30-50% productivity gains in customer service, HR, and sales.
Databricks in talks to raise at over $165B valuation
The data and AI platform is sounding out investors at a mark that would extend one of the steepest private valuation climbs in enterprise software.
Perplexity targets 2028 IPO regardless of Anthropic, OpenAI listings
CEO Aravind Srinivas tells CNBC the AI search startup will go public in 2028 even as Anthropic and OpenAI race to list first.
Mercor's Brendan Foody accuses Sequoia of dual-pricing valuation games
The Mercor co-founder says he's counted six rounds in six months where Sequoia split investments into two tranches at very different prices.
Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity cuts staff as OpenAI files for IPO
The eye-scanning World project raised at a $2.5B valuation but is downsizing as revenue lags and regulators push back.
Apple waives AI cloud fees for developers under 2M downloads
Foundation Models in Private Cloud Compute go free for indies, and the framework now accepts image input and third-party server models.
UK commits $1.47B to AI supercomputer and homegrown chip buyers
Britain will spend $1B on a national AI supercomputer and steer $200M in inference-chip orders to UK startups like Olix and Fractile.
Microsoft AI's Suleyman pursues superintelligence, loosens grip on OpenAI
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman is training frontier models in-house, citing the risk of permanent IP dependence on OpenAI.
UK doubles down on sovereign AI as Nvidia partners scale Isambard deployments
Twelve months after the 'AI maker, not AI taker' pledge, the UK has 5,400 GH200 superchips running and a £2B Nvidia startup bet behind it.
Stay ahead of everyone in AI.
The tightly edited AI news email engineers, founders, and investors actually open. One email. Every weekday. Five minutes to finish.
The briefing read inside teams at