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OpenAI staff donate $215K to super PAC opposing Brockman-backed group
Seven current employees and one alum funded Guardrails Alliance, a counterweight to the $100M pro-industry PAC Leading the Future.
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to raise $200M for drug discovery startup at $2B valuation
Lightspeed is in discussions to lead the round as Wang and other OpenAI researchers leave to build AI models for drug repurposing.
Meta sued over claims AI tools picked 8,000 employees for layoffs
26 plaintiffs allege Metamate and AI-usage dashboards selected workers on medical or family leave for termination; Meta denies it.
OpenAI's first hardware is a screenless smart speaker that moves, per Bloomberg
The mobile AI companion, built with ex-Apple engineers, is pitched as a physical manifestation of ChatGPT for the home.
Verge editor who tried 200 to-do apps says AI productivity hype is overblown
David Pierce argues the AI-or-die pitch is wrong, calls the tech 'just software,' and says capture still beats every system.
OpenAI plans a ChatGPT smart speaker for 2027, its first major device
The screenless, camera-equipped speaker joins roughly five hardware products OpenAI is building with Jony Ive after its $6.5B acquisition of io Products.
Hinge founder Justin McLeod raises $18M for AI dating service Overtone
Match Group is backing its former Hinge CEO's new voice-forward matchmaking startup, which promises curated intros over swiping.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is deleting users' files and databases without asking
Developers say the new coding-focused flagship wiped Macs and production databases — behavior OpenAI itself flagged in the system card two weeks earlier.
xAI's Grok Build coding tool was silently uploading entire codebases to Google Cloud
Researchers found the CLI packaged secrets and ignored files into cloud storage; Musk says the retained data will be deleted.
Publishers sue Google, allege Gemini was trained on pirated books
Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, and Scott Turow accuse Google of scraping books from Google Books and Google Play to train Gemini without permission.
Meta's Mosseri says AI token budgets may soon be capped per engineer
Instagram head says a strong engineer's AI burn rate could match their salary within one to two years, forcing per-head caps.
Hassabis proposes FINRA-style standards body to vet frontier AI models
The DeepMind CEO wants labs to submit models for review 30 days before release, starting voluntary and moving to mandatory.
Nvidia pushes Nemotron open models as enterprises tune their own AI
Harvey, Glean, and Arcee AI have customized Nemotron for legal, search, and inference — hitting frontier accuracy at up to 20x lower cost.
US official says 'very few' Nvidia H200 chips have shipped to China
Commerce's Jeffery Kessler confirms H200 licenses are being issued, but volumes to China and Hong Kong remain tiny under a 25% revenue cut to Washington.
Spotify launches conversational AI music assistant for Premium users
The beta feature lets subscribers chat with the app to shape playback across Home and Now Playing on iOS and Android.
Open-weight models overtake frontier labs in developer downloads
Chinese open models took 41% of Hugging Face downloads this spring, and the top six models on OpenRouter are all open — Claude Opus 4.7 sits seventh.
Reflection signs $1B compute deal with Nebius for Nvidia chips
The open-weight model startup, valued at $8B, adds Nebius capacity weeks after locking in SpaceX compute access.
Nvidia pitches performance per watt as the AI factory's decisive metric
GB300 NVL72 delivers up to 25x performance per watt over Hopper as power becomes the binding constraint on inference economics.
Recovered ELIZA source code reframes the origin story of the chatbot
A new book pulls the 1966 program's code from the MIT Archives, revealing multiple ELIZAs and a template for today's AI intimacy problem.
Hassabis calls for US-led global AI watchdog with power to halt frontier models
The Google DeepMind CEO wants an industry-funded regulator running before the end of 2026, with authority to pause risky releases.
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son says AI will need $5 trillion a year by 2040
The SoftBank founder dismissed bubble talk, arguing annual AI capital requirements will scale into the trillions within 15 years.
HUD withholds 100+ documents on DOGE's AI use in housing policy
The agency cited a nonexistent 'AI privilege' to deny a FOIA request from Democracy Forward, obscuring how AI shaped rule rescissions.
New York enacts first US state moratorium on large data centers
Governor Kathy Hochul blocked new environmental permits for data centers above 50 megawatts, with a stricter legislative version awaiting her signature.
South Korea forecasts 2026 growth at 5-year high on AI chip demand
Seoul projects 2.6% GDP growth in 2026, up from 2.2% in 2025, as memory-chip orders from AI data-center buildouts drive exports.
PixVerse raises $439M at $2B valuation, betting video generation is a two-horse race
The Singapore startup pulled Alibaba into its Series C extension and now claims 150 million registered users on its consumer app.
Uber pushes into hotels and AV data, tells partners it won't chase L4 autonomy
Chief product officer Sachin Kansal says Uber One hit 51M members and AV Labs will gather millions of miles of driving data for partners.
200 economists and AI leaders warn of jobs 'tsunami' from AI
Signed by Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI executives alongside Nobel laureates, the statement says AI could transform the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution.
Apple sues OpenAI, says ex-engineer used server bug to grab hardware files
Apple's complaint hinges on Chang Liu, an engineer who left for OpenAI in January and allegedly downloaded confidential files weeks later.
Apple ships Siri AI in iOS 27 public beta, betting on developer buy-in
The revamped assistant handles onscreen context and multi-step tasks, but only Apple's own apps work at launch. Full app support waits until fall.
George Hotz argues user-aligned AI should help with anything — even murder
The Comma AI founder rejects the AI Futures Project's 14-year slowdown plan and compares locally aligned AI to a gun.
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