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Helsing raises $1.8B at $18B valuation, cementing European defense-AI lead
The Munich drone and autonomy startup, already supplying HX-2 drones to Ukraine, secured backing from JPMorgan, Lightspeed and Iconiq.
Apple accelerates M7 Ultra with 1.5TB RAM support, born from shelved car project
The Neural Engine that powers Apple's on-device AI traces back to the abandoned self-driving car program, and it's about to get a server-class successor.
DTU researchers pair quantum computing with generative AI to design new peptides
A Technical University of Denmark team used an ORCA Computing quantum machine to improve peptide predictions where training data is thin.
OpenAI hires a product manager for families as ChatGPT ages up
The share of ChatGPT users 35 and older hit 31% in Q2, up from 26% a year earlier, and OpenAI wants a household product.
Meta pulls Instagram AI photo-editing feature days after launch
Muse Image let users generate images referencing any public Instagram account by @-mention. Talent agency CAA pushed back.
OpenAI safety head Johannes Heidecke exits amid research reorg
Heidecke's departure follows a restructuring that folds safety teams under research VP Mia Glaese, days after GPT-5.6's launch.
Meta kills Instagram feature that let users AI-deepfake public accounts
Muse Image tagging launched Tuesday, drew immediate backlash, and was shut off by Friday after warnings it enabled sextortion.
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging hardware trade-secret theft by ex-staff
Apple names OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan and engineer Chang Liu, alleging a pattern of theft as OpenAI races to ship its first device by April 2027.
SK Hynix CEO warns 2027 will bring the worst memory shortage on record
The chipmaker says AI-driven demand for HBM and DRAM will outstrip supply beyond 2030, tightening a market already running hot.
Hugging Face's Delangue: half the Fortune 500 now runs on open source AI
The CEO argues frontier API costs push companies to open models as they scale, and warns a handful of firms could otherwise control everything.
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in largest-ever foreign IPO on US markets
The Nvidia HBM supplier priced above Seoul, opened 14% higher, and eclipsed Alibaba's 2014 record as Washington pushes for US fabs.
Sunrun to pay customers to host AI compute nodes in their homes
The solar company is piloting a distributed AI compute network across its 1.1 million customers, betting on backyard batteries instead of megasite data centers.
Instagram's Mosseri: don't filter AI content, just build a separate feed
Instagram will keep labeling AI posts but won't let users hide them, even as detection gets harder and Muse Spark tagging raises abuse concerns.
Refik Anadol's Dataland opens in LA as first 'museum of AI arts'
The downtown gallery drew 10,000+ visitors in two weeks with a biometric-driven rainforest built on 5 petabytes of self-collected data.
UN's AI for Good summit stages 10th edition amid governance gap
A 44-member commission, humanoid robots, and a stage-storming protest defined Geneva's 106,000-square-meter showcase.
Microsoft's carbon emissions rose 25% in 2025 as AI data centers expanded
The company's 2026 sustainability report says emissions hit 34M metric tons and warns sustainability solutions can't keep pace with AI demand.
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 is the 'preferred model' for Microsoft 365 Copilot
The declaration lands days after reports that Microsoft was quietly swapping in its own MAI models to power Word and Excel.
OpenAI faces sanctions bid after allegedly hiding 78M ChatGPT logs from NYT
News plaintiffs say OpenAI concealed pre-searched log samples for two years while claiming the searches were technically infeasible.
Teleoperated Unitree humanoid robots remove gallbladders from live pigs
UC San Diego surgeons remotely controlled $13,500 humanoid robots to perform two minimally invasive operations, published in Nature.
Lyzr's AI agent ran its own $100M Series B fundraise
SivaClaw fielded 130+ investors and drafted memos while Lyzr closed a $500M valuation without leaving Jersey City.
Fidji Simo steps down as OpenAI's applications chief, citing chronic illness
Simo will move to a part-time advisor role after a three-month medical leave, leaving Sam Altman without his designated No. 2 ahead of a 2027 IPO.
OpenAI releases Sol with no clear US government approval process
Eighteen months into the Trump administration, nobody — including frontier labs — can explain how AI models get cleared for public release.
Sequoia's David Cahn: AI industry needs $3T in revenue to justify 2026 buildout
Infrastructure spend hits $1.5T next year while Anthropic runs at $60B ARR and OpenAI at $20B — the payback math still doesn't close.
Musk vows not to 'cut off' Anthropic from SpaceX's $40B compute deal
Musk called Anthropic the current AI leader and pledged not to weaponize the 300 MW hosting contract, reversing a September 2025 dismissal.
OpenAI shuts down Atlas browser, folds features into ChatGPT and Chrome
The nine-month-old AI browser is dead; its agent capabilities move to a Chrome extension and a beefed-up ChatGPT desktop app.
Anthropic's new J-lens reveals hidden words inside Claude's middle layers
The interpretability tool exposes a 'J-space' where Claude Opus 4.6 quietly puzzles through math, protein sequences, and when to cheat.
Gradium closes $100M seed with Nvidia, opens Bay Area office
The Paris voice-AI startup, spun out of Kyutai, is pushing into Silicon Valley after landing Renault as an early customer.
Google will disclose which ads were made with AI in My Ad Center
A new 'How this ad was made' label lands in My Ad Center across Search, YouTube, and Discover, but Google won't verify the claims itself.
New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright case
Court filings allege OpenAI already searched its own training data and kept a 78 million-conversation database before claiming it couldn't.
Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 to challenge Claude and GPT-5.6 on coding
The agentic coding model prices at $1.25 per million input tokens, slightly above Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5.6 Luna.
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