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AI-heavy firms grew headcount 10.2% even as 90,000 jobs got cut
A Ramp and Revelio Labs study finds the biggest AI spenders are hiring faster, including entry-level — but only if they were already winning.
Waymo and Uber end Phoenix robotaxi pilot after three years
The first market for the partnership shuts down with just over a dozen vehicles, while Austin and Atlanta scale to hundreds.
Meta contractors posed as minors to probe ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI
A project called Cannes ran 45,000 prompts through rival chatbots in August 2025 alone, using dummy under-18 accounts.
South Korea commits $1T to memory chips, AI data centers, and humanoid robots
Samsung, SK Hynix, and Hyundai anchor a national plan to double DRAM output and ship 30,000 Atlas robots a year by 2028.
Tidal stops paying royalties on AI-generated music, stops short of a ban
Fully AI-generated tracks lose royalties starting today and get a label on July 15th, but they stay on the platform.
TIDAL will demonetize fully AI-generated music starting July 15
The streaming service will tag 100% AI tracks, block royalties, and bar direct-to-fan sales — a sharper line than Spotify or Apple Music.
Cursor ships mobile app to steer coding agents from a phone
The launch follows October's Cursor 2.0 agent overhaul and mirrors mobile coding moves from Anthropic and OpenAI.
Samsung and SK Hynix anchor $900B South Korean AI and memory push
Seoul unveils a national plan: $518B for four new memory fabs, $52B for HBM packaging, and $356B for AI data centers through 2035.
Google opens Gemini's Nano Banana image generation to all US users
The personalized image feature, previously locked behind Plus, Pro, and Ultra tiers, now runs free on a chatbot with 750 million monthly users.
Anthropic cuts California government a 50% discount on Claude
Governor Gavin Newsom struck a statewide deal with Anthropic as the federal government continues to freeze the company out.
Calling AI agents 'coworkers' makes humans 18% worse at catching their errors
A Boston University study of 1,261 managers finds the 'digital employee' framing inverts accountability and erodes oversight.
Arena hits $100M run-rate eight months after launching paid evaluations
The UC Berkeley-born AI leaderboard tripled revenue from $30M in January, competing for post-training dollars against Scale AI, Mercor, and Surge.
Anthropic's Claude goes live on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra in Azure
Claude in Microsoft Foundry now runs on GB300 NVL72 systems with Quantum-X800 InfiniBand, opening Azure-native enterprises to agentic deployments.
Warren and Scanlon revive bill to ban AI firms from selling health data
The updated Health and Location Data Protection Act covers data entered into ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, with $1B for FTC enforcement.
Omen AI raises $31M to monitor data center coolant in real time
The startup's spectrometer spots bacterial growth in liquid-cooled GPU racks before it triggers five-to-six-hour shutdowns.
Proception settles Tesla trade secrets suit, raises $11M for robot hands
Ex-Optimus engineer Jay Li's startup closes a First Round-led seed and starts shipping a 22-degree-of-freedom robotic hand.
Palantir taps NVIDIA Nemotron open models for US government AI
The deal puts customizable frontier models inside air-gapped federal environments, with agencies keeping the weights they train.
China's CXMT lands $3B memory supply deal with Tencent
The deal hands a domestic Chinese memory maker its largest AI customer to date, as Tencent races to secure chips for data center buildouts.
Flexion Robotics trains humanoids to run office errands autonomously
The Swiss startup, founded by ex-Nvidia researchers, stacks reinforcement learning across every layer to make humanoids work without a human puppeteer.
Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin eyes $50 billion Hong Kong IPO
The AI accelerator spinout would list in Hong Kong at a valuation that rivals top global chip designers, per The Information.
China's Z.ai claims GLM-5.2 matches Anthropic's Mythos on bug-finding
The open-weight model lags on general tasks but reportedly closes the gap on cybersecurity — the exact capability US export curbs were meant to contain.
Suno's Spark incubator asks artists to sign away rights and stay quiet
The AI music startup wants unsigned artists for grants and mentorship — in exchange for broad licenses, a class-action waiver, and a non-disparagement clause.
Austria lobbies EU to host Anthropic after US export curbs
Vienna pitches itself as a European base for the Claude maker as Washington's access controls reshape where frontier AI can sell.
ChatGPT logs entered as evidence in Palisades fire trial, jury unconvinced
Prosecutors leaned on Jonathan Rinderknecht's chatbot history; the jury split 10-2 for the defense and the judge declared a mistrial.
Google restricts Meta's access to Gemini AI models
The curb signals Google treating Meta as a direct AI rival rather than a customer, per a Financial Times report.
Masayoshi Son questions Musk's orbital data center pitch
SoftBank's CEO says space-based compute won't arrive in time for the AI race that matters — the next few years, not the next decade.
Margaret Atwood tried Claude once, called AI 'garbage in, garbage out'
The Handmaid's Tale author asked Anthropic's chatbot about a Father Brown episode and got a confidently wrong answer.
Apple's Vision Pro chief Paul Meade is leaving for OpenAI's hardware team
Meade, who also led Apple's planned AI smart glasses, joins an OpenAI hardware push already staffed by Jony Ive.
A founder used Claude to challenge his oncologist — and was right
Keragon's Conno Christou fed scans, bloodwork, and wearable data into Claude during a six-month lymphoma fight. The model caught what a PET scan missed.
Apple raises Mac, iPad, and HomePod prices, blames AI memory crunch
Tim Cook calls the hikes unavoidable as AI data centers outbid consumer device makers for RAM — even with Apple posting four straight record quarters.
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