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Hospital for Special Surgery puts agentic AI on 1,100 claims a month with Ema
HSS lifted appeals success from 65% to 100% in nine months and now plans to push AI agents into patient triage.

Jensen Huang calls Marvell the next trillion-dollar company; stock jumps 22%
Nvidia's CEO endorsed Marvell's networking chips at Computex; the chip designer is now up more than 158% year-to-date.

Small businesses turn to Notion AI and Rain to absorb back-office work
A London tutor uses Notion AI for invoicing and lesson notes; a Yuma quilt shop cuts listing time 60-80% with Rain.

Nvidia pushes transaction foundation models as banks consolidate AI stacks
Revolut, Mastercard, Adyen and Stripe are training single transformer models on proprietary payment data instead of running dozens of task-specific systems.

Nvidia ships JetPack 7.2 and NemoClaw, pushing agentic AI to the edge
Jetson AGX Orin 32GB gets a 20% compute bump to 241 TOPS as Nvidia lands its agent framework on production robotics hardware.

GitHub Copilot's new usage-based pricing burns through monthly credits in a day
Subscribers report consuming their entire monthly AI allotment in hours under the new credit model that took effect June 1.

Alphabet to raise $80B in stock sale, with $10B from Berkshire, to fund AI buildout
Google's parent is selling $80B in equity, including a $10B Berkshire Hathaway stake, to keep pace with a capex plan running up to $190B this year.

Nvidia targets $200B CPU market with RTX Spark PCs from Microsoft, Dell, HP
Eight PC makers will ship RTX Spark Windows laptops this fall, with Microsoft branding its version the Surface Laptop Ultra.

GM cuts vehicle simulation from 15 hours to one minute with AI
Chief product officer Sterling Anderson says probabilistic methods now compress finite element analysis runs by three orders of magnitude.

Strava puts its API behind an $11.99 paywall, blaming zero-code AI apps
Developer applications jumped 448% year-to-date as scrapers and AI app builders strained the platform, the company said.

Taiwan's manufacturers fold Nvidia AI into their own fabs as Vera Rubin ramps
TSMC, Foxconn, Wistron, Pegatron and Inventec apply Nvidia software to the lines building 1 million MGX rack components.

Nvidia's FOX blueprint turns factory floors into agent-orchestrated systems
Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Advantech are first to deploy the Factory Operations Blueprint, with Foxconn projecting an 80% cut in root cause analysis time.

Nvidia's AI Cloud ecosystem reaches six continents as Exemplar tier hits six partners
CoreWeave, Firmus, Nebius and others expand AI factory capacity; DSX MaxLPS squeezes 40% more GPUs into the same power budget.

SoftBank commits up to €75B to build 5GW of AI data centers in France
The Japanese investor will spend an initial €45B to deliver 3.1GW of capacity to Hauts-de-France by 2031 — its largest European AI bet.

GitHub Copilot's token-based billing draws developer backlash ahead of June 1 switch
Some users say flat-rate subscriptions of $29–$50 a month will jump to $750 or $3,000 under usage-based pricing.

BuzzFeed licenses Cuppy to Amazon for AI-animated Prime Video series
Creator Loryn Brantz, who built The Good Advice Cupcake in 2017, says she was not consulted; BuzzFeed says it owns the IP.

Robotics startups pay households for chore footage to train physical AI
Shift, Pronto, and Human Archive are buying first-person video of cleaning and cooking — the bottleneck for home robots is real-world data.

ClickUp cuts 22% of staff for AI agents as Box's Levie warns of 'AI psychosis'
2026 tech layoffs already match all of 2025, while DuckDuckGo installs climb 30% from users rejecting forced AI in search.

Cognition CEO Scott Wu: Devin writes 89% of our code, but isn't replacing engineers
Fresh off a $1B raise at $26B, Wu insists the AI coding agent is a 'buddy' for programmers — even as it ships nearly all of Cognition's own code.

Groq seeks $650M from existing investors after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal
The AI chip startup is doubling down on its inference cloud business under interim CEO Adam Winter, with Disruptive and Infinitium backstopping the round.

XCENA raises $135M at $570M valuation for memory-centric AI chip
The Korean-American startup says its MX1 chip can collapse 10 servers of inference work into one by moving compute next to DRAM.

Shift offers free home cleanings in exchange for robot training footage
The startup's cleaners wear a camera-equipped 'magic hat' to capture point-of-view data for future household robots.

Apollo and Blackstone work on $36B debt deal for Anthropic
Private credit giants are assembling one of the largest debt packages ever raised for an AI company, per Bloomberg.

Glean hits $300M ARR by pitching AI cost savings to enterprise buyers
The enterprise search startup tripled revenue in 15 months as Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI move into its category.
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