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Google plugs Instacart, Canva, and YouTube into AI Mode search
AI Mode moves from answering questions to executing tasks, matching integration features already shipping in ChatGPT and Claude.
EU orders Google to open Android and Search to AI rivals under DMA
Google must give ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity comparable Android access as Gemini, with search data sharing due January 2027.
1Password lets Claude use your logins without ever seeing them
A new zero-exposure framework injects credentials through a secure channel Claude can't read, unlocking longer agentic browser tasks.
GeForce NOW exits India beta, adds Onimusha and five titles this week
Nvidia's cloud gaming service goes public in India with UPI payments, streams Onimusha: Way of the Sword at RTX 5080-class performance.
Axon's AI police revenue jumps 700% as vendors carve up the surveillance stack
Axon Era Plan subscriptions rose 140% year-over-year as Motorola, Flock, and startups race to sell AI decision-making to police departments.
Airbus picks Iliad's Scaleway for AI and defence workloads in sovereignty push
The European aerospace group taps a French cloud provider for sensitive AI work, sidestepping US hyperscalers on strategic projects.
Meta rolls back Instagram AI tagging in 3 days after opt-out backlash
The feature let users generate images of public Instagram accounts by default. It survived 72 hours before Meta pulled it.
Applied Computing raises $20M for Orbital, an AI model for oil and gas plants
KBR led the Series A into the London startup, whose foundation model fuses sensor, physics, and language data to run refineries in real time.
Microsoft coaches sales team to pitch against OpenAI and Anthropic
Executives at an internal FY27 strategy meeting told salespeople to frame Copilot as faster and more secure than Claude and rival models.
Nvidia unveils Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000 for mainstream robotics
The Blackwell-based T3000 delivers 865 FP4 teraflops in half the size of the T5000; both modules ship Q1 2027.
Meta and Stanford's EgoBabyVLM test shows top AI models still lose to a toddler
A new benchmark feeds infant head-cam footage to vision-language models — and they fail, exposing a gap AI labs cannot close with more data alone.
Suno scraped 2 million YouTube Music clips to train its AI, leaked files show
Hacked source code reveals the AI music generator pulled from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, and IMSLP, backing a key RIAA allegation.
xAI sues South Carolina man for using Grok to generate CSAM
Terry Wayne Harwood, arrested in February on eight felony counts, allegedly bypassed Grok's safeguards to create explicit deepfakes from real photos.
Fountain 0 releases AI-made Odysseus: The Fall to ride Nolan's Odyssey
Director Ash Koosha built the feature for a mid-five-figure budget using Kling and Google Nano Banana, timed to Nolan's $250M release.
Ode with Anthropic bets forward-deployed engineers replace consulting armies
Founders Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel argue a handful of AI-native engineers can out-deliver traditional integrators on enterprise deployments.
Microsoft ships record 570 security patches, credits AI for the surge
July's Patch Tuesday includes at least two zero-days already under active exploitation, with one hitting SharePoint servers.
OpenAI ships $230 Codex Micro keyboard as Apple trade-secret suit looms
The Work Louder collaboration is a limited run, but it lands the same week Apple sued OpenAI over alleged hardware IP theft.
Whatnot acquires Shaped to sharpen live-shopping recommendations
The $11B livestream marketplace absorbs Shaped's real-time ML stack and a dozen engineers to shrink recommendation latency toward zero.
Suno hack exposes source code suggesting YouTube scraping for AI training
A November 2025 breach at the AI music generator surfaced code pointing to YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius as training sources.
Thinking Machines releases Inkling, its first open-weight AI model
Mira Murati's startup ships a 975B-parameter mixture-of-experts model, betting enterprises will fine-tune their own AI rather than rent frontier chatbots.
OpenAI built GPT-Red, an LLM super-hacker, to harden its own models
The internal red-team model cut successful attack rates from over 90% on GPT-5 to under 23% on the new GPT-5.6.
OpenAI ships its first hardware — a $230 Codex control pad with Work Louder
The limited-run Codex Micro is a 13-switch keypad for monitoring coding agents, not the Jony Ive smart speaker still in development.
Apple Intelligence cleared for China launch with Alibaba's Qwen
The Cyberspace Administration of China signed off on Apple's AI stack after a deal to route Chinese requests through Alibaba's Qwen model.
Rime raises $24M Series A to handle enterprise customer calls
The voice AI startup says it is already processing more than 100 million calls a month for enterprise clients.
Reelful launches iOS app that turns camera rolls into TikTok-ready videos
Founded by an ex-Snapchat ML engineer, the a16z Speedrun startup automates scripting, voice cloning, and editing for short-form social video.
Anthropic and Blackstone launch Ode, a $1.5B AI implementation firm
The joint venture absorbs Fractional AI to sell enterprise deployment services, mirroring OpenAI's Deployment Company play.
Apple FaceID co-inventor raises $52M for brain-diagnostic AI startup Hemispheric
Gidi Littwin's Hemispheric trained a frontier model on 250,000 hours of brain data from 100,000 people to diagnose PTSD, depression, and Parkinson's.
Emergent hits $1.5B valuation with $130M Series C led by Creaegis
The Indian AI coding startup's valuation jumped five-fold in six months as run-rate revenue climbed to $120M.
Vint Cerf joins Innovation Labs to build an identity layer for AI agents
The TCP/IP co-designer left Google after 20 years and is now backing DNSid, a proposal to register and audit autonomous AI agents.
Nvidia and SEGA mark 30 years with Virtua Fighter Crossroads on RTX Spark
The partnership that began with the NV1 chip powering the first PC Virtua Fighter now stretches into a new class of AI-capable Windows machines.
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