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Databricks closes $5B round at $190B valuation, revenue hits $7B run rate
The data platform's valuation jumped from $134B in six months as CEO Ali Ghodsi cites 'crazy' agent demand and delays an IPO.
Apple weighs nine-figure budget to license news for Siri AI relaunch
The pay-per-use structure breaks with industry-standard flat licensing fees and signals urgency ahead of Siri AI's late-2026 rollout.
Nvidia backstops $500B AI data center push by guaranteeing GPU resale values
Jensen Huang gets Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to fund the buildout — in exchange for covering 25% of any collateral shortfall.
Microsoft folds consumer and business Copilot into one app, kills Mico and Deep Research
The August 18 consolidation ditches Group Chats, AI podcasts, Copilot Labs, and the floating blob mascot Mico.
Nvidia ships GeForce NOW native Linux app, opens 2,000-game library to Chromebooks
The Linux client exits beta on Ubuntu 24.04, DLSS Frame Generation gets a latency cut, and Chromebook Fast Pass throws in a free year.
Anthropic investors target $2 trillion IPO valuation for October debut
Backers project $100B–$120B annualized revenue by year-end, which would make Claude maker's listing the largest in history.
Microsoft merges consumer and commercial Copilot apps ahead of super app launch
One app, one icon, one taskbar entry — Microsoft is laying groundwork for a unified Copilot super app due later this year.
Anthropic will watermark everything Claude touches, even human writing it edited
The EU AI Act forces disclosure by August 2, and Anthropic is going further than the law requires — marking edits, translations, and summaries too.
AI models flag fatty liver disease early as condition hits 30% of adults worldwide
Researchers say algorithms trained on routine bloods and chest x-rays could catch reversible liver damage in over a billion people.
US teens split on AI: 57% use chatbots to search, only 12% for emotional support
A Pew survey and student interviews show teenagers using AI heavily for schoolwork and search while pushing back on creative and emotional uses.
LiteLLM supply-chain attack leaks credentials from 2,500 organizations
A 40-minute window in March exposed secrets across 434,000 CI/CD pipelines at Microsoft, Amazon, Cisco, Samsung, Salesforce, and Nvidia.
ShieldFont poisons AI scrapers by swapping words with ligatures
A new font replaces 24.5% of words with plausible nonsense in HTML while rendering correctly for humans, causing scrapers to reject 90% of pages.
Berkeley's Dawn Song warns rogue AI agents are eager, not evil
Eight months after her first warning, the UC Berkeley professor says agentic AI systems are hacking outside systems to finish tasks faster.
White House to expand AI safety framework to cover open models
The Trump administration's voluntary prerelease testing regime will pull in open models once they hit frontier capabilities, officials say.
Twitch lets streamers opt out of Amazon AI training, two years after it started
Streams, VODs, clips, and chats are fair game for Amazon's generative models by default — creators have to flip a toggle to say no.
CodeRabbit raises $143M at $1.5B valuation to review AI-generated code
The Nvidia-backed startup now runs 2 million code reviews a week as AI-written software outpaces what human teams can vet.
Lovable raises $400M at $13.3B valuation as ARR nearly triples
The European app-builder went from 25M to 60M projects in 8 months, with Menlo Ventures returning to lead and EQT co-leading.
Sandbar raises $23M Series A for Stream, a voice-first AI ring
The startup has pulled in $36M total to bet that a ring, not earbuds or a pin, is the right form factor for capturing voice notes.
Cognition in talks to raise at $40B valuation, months after $26B round
Devin's maker hit a $1B annualized revenue run rate, doubling in three months, as enterprises pile onto its AI coding agent.
Thrive Holdings raises $2B at $12B valuation to roll up firms and inject OpenAI
The OpenAI-backed spinout of Thrive Capital now owns 70+ businesses and is opening a third vertical aimed at physical infrastructure.
Hinton, Li, and Ng defend open AI at Ai4, split on how open
Three of AI's most cited researchers agreed openness matters. They disagreed on open weights, China, and where regulation belongs.
Only 45% of enterprise data reaches AI agents, Google Cloud survey finds
A 300-executive survey with Google Cloud shows data leaders unlock 70% agent access; laggards stall at 30% and distrust their own agents.
D'Addario admits Suno AI generated its guitar string demo track
After two weeks of denials and blocked commenters, the string maker confirms Suno Studio regenerated the promotional track and pledges disclosure rules going forward.
Google unveils Pixel 11, Pixel Tag, and Gemini features at Made by Google '26
The Pixel 11 starts at $899, a $100 hike; Google finally answers Apple's AirTag with a $29 Pixel Tag tied to Find Hub.
Gamgee, the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine startup, launches with Y Combinator backing
Paul Conyngham's Rosie story becomes a company pitching personalized mRNA vaccines, with a 75% tumor reduction claim from one case.
Google's Pixel Watch 5 leans on AI and health software, adds $50 to the price
The $399 watch keeps the hardware nearly static and bets on offline Gemini, insulin resistance trends, and breathing emergency detection.
Google DeepMind ships sign language AI to Pixel 11 with new SL2T model
SL2T translates ASL to English on-device in Gboard and Live Transcribe, trained on 100,000+ hours across 50+ sign languages.
xAI launches Grok Bot, an agent service you assign work like a coworker
The always-on agents run in their own cloud environment and sign into your apps to complete multi-step tasks without preset workflows.
Blacksmith raises $45M Series B at $550M valuation as AI code testing booms
The code-validation startup's valuation jumped nearly 10x in under a year as AI-generated code overwhelms testing pipelines.
AI-run RuntimeWire beats human reporters to OpenAI hacking scoop by 3 hours
Ryan Merket's synthetic newsroom has published nearly 2,000 stories since May on a $100-a-day budget, and it just scooped mainstream tech media.
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