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NEA's Tiffany Luck: enterprises still can't pin down AI ROI
Uber blew its annual AI budget in months, Meta killed an internal leaderboard, and CFOs are asking what tokenmaxxing actually bought.
Snap stock slides 5% after $2,200 Specs AR glasses unveiling
Shares fell from $5.86 to $4.83 after Snap priced its decade-in-the-making AR glasses at nearly $2,200 — well outside its teen demographic's budget.
Threads, Instagram and TikTok hand users the algorithm dials
Threads' new Your Algo, Instagram's expanded controls, and TikTok's Smart Keyword Filters mark a shift toward user-tunable feeds.
Anthropic joins Frontier as first AI startup in $1.8B carbon removal pact
Anthropic's pledge helps double Frontier's funding to $1.8B and marks the lab's first climate-related deal amid an AI energy buying spree.
G7 leaders push back on US after Trump blocks Anthropic model exports
Macron and Modi warn that overnight US revocation of AI access threatens both foreign economies and American AI firms themselves.
Pew: 63% of Americans say AI is advancing too quickly
Chatbot usage jumped from 33% to 49% in two years, but only 16% think AI will help society.
Only 16% of Americans see AI as a net positive, Pew finds
Pew's new survey shows 40% expect a negative societal impact, yet 44% of U.S. adults now use ChatGPT — more than double 2023.
Odyssey hits $1.45B valuation as Amazon, AMD bet on world models
The world model startup raised $310M in a Series B led by Natural Capital and will move workloads onto AWS Trainium chips.
Pramaana Labs raises $27M to bolt formal verification onto LLMs
Khosla-led seed funds a startup using the LEAN proof language to make AI reliable enough for tax law, drug discovery, and cybersecurity.
XDOF raises $70M to supply frontier labs with robot training data
The Berkeley-bred startup is selling teleoperation, simulation, and annotation pipelines to 20 customers including frontier AI labs chasing physical AI.
Google Home Speaker launches June 25 at $100 with Gemini built in
Google's first smart speaker in six years swaps Assistant for Gemini, ships with a smaller driver, and bundles six months of Home Premium.
DeepL acquires Mixhalo to push translation into live events
The German translation company buys the $39M-backed real-time audio startup and opens a Bay Area office to chase conferences and concerts.
CPP Investments commits $741M to CtrlS for India AI data center buildout
Canada's largest pension fund takes an 8.2% stake in CtrlS and joins a hyperscale joint venture as India's AI infrastructure race accelerates.
Pinterest launches Ask Pinterest, a standalone AI shopping app
The conversational app taps Pinterest's Taste Graph to test agentic shopping without disrupting the main app — and lands days before Cannes Lions.
Genesis AI unveils Eno, a humanoid robot that ditches the human shape
The French startup backed by Eric Schmidt is targeting factory, lab and logistics deployments by the end of 2026.
DOJ moves to dismiss NAACP Clean Air Act suit over xAI's Memphis turbines
Justice Department says shutting down 57 unpermitted gas turbines powering Grok would threaten Pentagon operations and AI innovation.
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in business AI spending despite White House clash
Ramp data shows Anthropic at 41% of business AI subscriptions in May, even as the Trump administration forced it to pull Mythos 5 and Fable 5.
Coherent breaks ground on Texas indium phosphide fab for NVIDIA AI optics
A $50M CHIPS Act grant and $2B NVIDIA investment back the world's first 6-inch InP line, targeting 550 direct jobs in Sherman.
Pentagon uses generative AI to draft congressional reports in 5 hours
CTO Emil Michael says GenAI.mil cut a 200-hour reporting task to five, as 1.5 million DoD personnel now use the platform.
Anthropic pauses token-based billing change for Claude Agent SDK
A pricing shift set to take effect June 15 is on hold, sparing power users API-rate charges — at least for now.
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Reality Elite chip for next-gen smart glasses
The XR chip delivers a 60% GPU bump, 160% NPU gain, and ships first in Xreal's Project Aura Android XR glasses this fall.
Apple plans camera-equipped AirPods for late 2027 to feed Siri visual context
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says the camera AirPods are being tested against iOS 28 and will follow a first foldable iPhone this fall.
Robinhood cuts 10% of staff and pointedly avoids blaming AI
CEO Vlad Tenev's note on 290 layoffs sidesteps the AI script other tech CEOs have leaned on all year.
60% of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
A WordPress VIP survey of 2,000 finds consumers distrust unattributed AI answers more than airline fees, even as AI referral traffic climbs.
Google ships Android 17 with Gemini Omni, Lyria 3, and a foldable gaming mode
The release lands first on Pixel with multimodal Gemini, AI music generation, and up to 10% better Wear OS 7 battery life.
HPE and Nvidia expand AI Factory with Vera CPU and Agent Toolkit
The joint platform adds Nvidia's first agent-tuned CPU, a new agent toolkit for Private Cloud AI, and confidential computing across the stack.
Plaud crosses $100M ARR after shipping 2M AI notetakers
The screenless AI recorder maker says nearly half of device buyers upgrade to paid plans, a rare hardware-to-software conversion story.
DOJ calls xAI's 57 Memphis gas turbines a national security asset
Justice Department says shutting down xAI's unpermitted turbines would cripple AI that backs US military operations, including strikes in Iran.
Nvidia Blackwell sweeps MLPerf Training 6.0 across all seven benchmarks
GB300 NVL72 delivers 1.6x faster training than GB200 NVL72, and CoreWeave hits a 2.02-minute time-to-train on DeepSeek-V3 671B.
Sensi.ai's always-on microphones spread to 80% of North American home care networks
The $100M-funded startup records seniors' coughs, falls, and conversations — and sells agencies 88% client growth as the real pitch.
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