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Google DeepMind picks 15 European robotics startups for AI accelerator
A three-month London program gives founders access to Gemini robotics models, with cohort spanning healthcare microrobots to ocean autonomy.

Spin founder raises $5M to build space data centers at Orbital
Euwyn Poon's new company plans 10,000 satellites delivering a gigawatt of inference compute — once Starship is flying commercially.

Wipro's HR AI agent cuts response time from 48 hours to 5 seconds
Agentic AI adoption is set to surge 300% in two years, with 30-50% productivity gains in customer service, HR, and sales.

Databricks in talks to raise at over $165B valuation
The data and AI platform is sounding out investors at a mark that would extend one of the steepest private valuation climbs in enterprise software.

Perplexity targets 2028 IPO regardless of Anthropic, OpenAI listings
CEO Aravind Srinivas tells CNBC the AI search startup will go public in 2028 even as Anthropic and OpenAI race to list first.

Apple swaps slick AI videos for live demos after $250M Siri settlement
WWDC 2026 leaned on real-device Apple Intelligence walkthroughs — a visible reaction to last year's vaporware lawsuit.

Mercor's Brendan Foody accuses Sequoia of dual-pricing valuation games
The Mercor co-founder says he's counted six rounds in six months where Sequoia split investments into two tranches at very different prices.

Apple's $14B AI bet looks restrained next to rivals' $900B
Siri AI ships later this year with Gemini integration as Apple spends a fraction of what OpenAI, Meta, and Google are committing.

Apple lets Safari users vibe-code their own extensions with Apple Intelligence
Safari is closing its extension gap by letting users describe what they want and having Apple Intelligence build it on the fly.

Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity cuts staff as OpenAI files for IPO
The eye-scanning World project raised at a $2.5B valuation but is downsizing as revenue lags and regulators push back.

Apple's Siri-in-Camera lets iPhone users split restaurant bills item by item
Point the iPhone at a receipt, tap the items you ordered, and Siri fires off Apple Cash requests to the rest of the table.

Apple waives AI cloud fees for developers under 2M downloads
Foundation Models in Private Cloud Compute go free for indies, and the framework now accepts image input and third-party server models.

Apple gives Siri its own standalone app with chat history and voice mode
The redesigned assistant gets a ChatGPT-style interface across iOS, macOS, and iPadOS, with conversations synced through iCloud.

Apple adds AI Reframe, Extend, and Cleanup to Photos app
WWDC 2026: Apple Intelligence now rewrites perspective, expands edges, and erases distractions inside the stock Photos app.

Apple rebuilds Image Playground with natural-language editing and private cloud compute
The iPhone's overlooked AI image generator gets a WWDC 2026 overhaul aimed at closing the quality gap with rival tools.

Apple pushes AI deeper into iOS with cross-app context and Shortcuts by prompt
WWDC 2026 updates extend Apple Intelligence into Safari, Phone, Messages, Calendar, and Photos — with personal data as the wedge against Google.

Meta strips NameTag face-recognition code from Meta AI app after report
Code for an unreleased face-recognition system vanished from the smart glasses companion app one day after WIRED detailed it.

UK commits $1.47B to AI supercomputer and homegrown chip buyers
Britain will spend $1B on a national AI supercomputer and steer $200M in inference-chip orders to UK startups like Olix and Fractile.

Google rebuilds NotebookLM on Gemini 3.5 with a cloud computer per notebook
Each notebook now runs on Google's Antigravity coding platform and can output PDFs, Excel files, and Nano Banana images.

Amazon lets shoppers design custom merch with AI prompts in Alexa
The Shopping app now turns text prompts into print-on-demand T-shirts, hoodies and tumblers — squeezing Redbubble, Bonfire and Spring on price and reach.

Anthropic logs 8x code merge jump as researchers benchmark AI gaming society's rules
Anthropic sees early signs of recursive self-improvement, a new benchmark tests AI loophole-hunting, and RL drones beat a human champion at 22 m/s.

Microsoft AI's Suleyman pursues superintelligence, loosens grip on OpenAI
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman is training frontier models in-house, citing the risk of permanent IP dependence on OpenAI.

ECMWF's AIFS runs forecasts on 1,000x less energy than physics-based model
Machine learning is rewriting weather forecasting at a fraction of the compute cost, but climate modeling won't surrender to neural nets.

Momfluencers pitch ChatGPT as a 'coparent' as AI gender gap widens
A new wave of creators is selling $37 custom GPTs to overwhelmed mothers, framing AI as the household partner husbands aren't.

UK doubles down on sovereign AI as Nvidia partners scale Isambard deployments
Twelve months after the 'AI maker, not AI taker' pledge, the UK has 5,400 GH200 superchips running and a £2B Nvidia startup bet behind it.

Nvidia and LG Group build AI factory for robotics, mobility and data centers
The Korean conglomerate is aligning robotics, autonomous driving and sovereign AI work across NVIDIA's full stack, from Isaac GR00T to DSX.

Nvidia and Doosan expand pact across robotics, power and AI factory materials
The Korean conglomerate plugs four business units into Nvidia's physical AI stack, from Jetson Thor robots to gas turbines feeding DSX data centers.

GitHub Copilot's per-token pricing shift signals end of subsidized AI era
Microsoft's move to charge per token instead of a flat rate exposes the gap between AI's true cost and what customers will pay.

Notion restores Anthropic Claude access after weekend outage
A brief infrastructure issue on Opus 4.7 and 4.8 took Claude offline inside Notion AI for roughly 12 hours before service returned.

OpenAI plans ChatGPT super app revamp, declares 'Chat is dead'
The company is folding Codex and agents into ChatGPT to push free users toward paid products ahead of an IPO.
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