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Meta engineers call new 6,500-person Applied AI unit 'the gulag'
A hijacked livestream, a 1,600-signature petition, and a Zuckerberg apology memo expose deep unrest inside Meta's three-month-old AI draft.
NVIDIA Blackwell runs 20x more agents per megawatt on new AgentPerf benchmark
Artificial Analysis launches the first agentic AI benchmark, and the GB300 NVL72 takes the top spot against Hopper on DeepSeek V4 Pro.
Google sues Chinese network Outsider Enterprise over Gemini-built scam sites
The group allegedly used Gemini to spin up 9,000 fake sites and blast 2.5 million scam texts to Android users.
SpaceX opens at $150 as Anthropic and OpenAI line up for IPO summer
SpaceX popped 11% on debut while Anthropic and OpenAI prepare to follow, ending the FAANG era and ushering in what insiders are calling MANGOS.
Apple's Craig Federighi says new Siri will refuse romantic roleplay
Apple's software chief draws a line between Siri and what he calls the engagement-driven sycophancy of OpenAI and Google chatbots.
Avataar's Varya undercuts Veo and Runway on price by 20x for Indian video AI
The Peak XV-backed startup distilled Alibaba's Wan 2.2 into a four-step model that generates 720p clips for $0.005 per second.
Apple bets on restrained generative editing in iOS 27 Photos app
iPhone camera chief Jon McCormack says Apple is tuning new Extend and Spatial Reframe tools to minimize hallucinations and protect the subject.
Theker raises $85M Series A to build reconfigurable factory robots
The Barcelona startup says it is Europe's largest robotics Series A, backed by CRV, Samsung, and LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault's family office.
Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B at $41B valuation for physical AI
The second raise in under a year vaults Prometheus into the top tier of AI startups, with JPMorgan, Goldman, and BlackRock backing the round.
Grok still hosting sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and a US lawmaker
A WIRED review found dozens of nonconsensual explicit images on Grok.com days before SpaceX's IPO, despite xAI's January safeguard pledges.
Amazon says its data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025
Amazon's first public water disclosure pegs usage at 0.12 liters per kilowatt-hour, down 2% from 2024 even as operations expanded.
Pool launches iOS app that turns your screenshot pile into a searchable archive
The Lisbon startup, backed by a $2M-plus pre-seed from General Catalyst and Kima Ventures, uses AI to categorize and resurface saved images.
DoorDash launches Ask DoorDash chatbot for prompt and photo ordering
The assistant builds grocery carts from cookbook photos and books reservations as DoorDash sinks several hundred million into its AI stack.
Google DeepMind backs $10M fund to study multi-agent AI safety risks
Rohin Shah says agents deployed at scale create a new risk class, and academia needs to study it before deployment hits the economy.
Deezer opens its AI music detector to Spotify and Apple Music users
After rivals declined to license the tech, Deezer is letting listeners scan playlists across 20 platforms for synthetic tracks.
OpenAI weighs token price cuts as Anthropic pulls ahead on valuation
The ChatGPT maker is bracing for Anthropic to undercut it on price, days after both labs filed confidentially for IPOs.
Anthropic reverses hidden Claude Fable 5 sabotage of AI researchers
After backlash, Anthropic will make its frontier-LLM safeguards visible instead of silently degrading Claude's output for rival AI work.
Opendoor shuts India operations, citing shift to AI-native teams
The home-buying platform is pulling roughly 250 jobs out of Chennai and Bengaluru less than two years after opening them.
Ex-xAI engineer Devin Kim sues over alleged firing for Grok safety complaints
Suit filed in California state court days before SpaceX's IPO targets xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba, not Musk, over Grok safety pushback.
OpenAI brings its models and Codex to Oracle Cloud customers
Enterprises can now draw down existing Oracle Cloud commitments to access OpenAI APIs and the Codex coding agent.
Astrophysicist uses OpenAI's Codex to simulate black holes
Chi-kwan Chan is pairing Codex with general relativity code to model extreme physics and stress-test Einstein's predictions.
Google moves to dismiss musicians' suit over Lyria training on YouTube uploads
Google won't confirm it trained its Lyria 3 music model on YouTube uploads, but argues the platform's terms of service authorize it either way.
Microsoft's Brad Smith responds to college grads booing AI in 3,100-word blog post
After viral clips of students heckling commencement speakers who hyped AI, Microsoft's president says the boos are a wake-up call worth heeding.
Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks days after $14B Canadian bond sale
The retailer pulled in $31.5B in new financing in 48 hours as hyperscaler AI capex pushes the biggest tech balance sheets into debt markets.
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 refuses basic biology questions by design
Anthropic told The Verge Fable's guardrails are 'overly conservative' to block bioweapons queries, routing routine biology asks to Opus 4.8.
Warner Music acquires Sureel AI to track how models use its catalog
The deal gives WMG patented 'AI DNA' technology to fingerprint songs and trace their use in training data and generated output.
Nvidia rolls out Halos OS as robotaxis launch in Munich, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia
Uber, Foxconn, VinFast and HUMAIN sign on to DRIVE Hyperion as Nvidia pitches a safety-certified OS for autonomous fleets.
Microsoft blocks Claude Fable 5 for internal use over Anthropic retention rules
Anthropic's new safety classifiers retain prompts for 30 days, breaking Microsoft's zero-data-retention policy for employee tools.
Writer researchers find memory tools make AI models more sycophantic, less accurate
Two new papers show that storing user preferences pulls models toward wrong answers, with Mem0 and Zep amplifying the bias.
Top 1% of US firms now spend $7,500 per employee monthly on AI
Ramp's latest index pegs the median at $11.38 — but the heaviest users are pushing token budgets toward engineer-salary territory.
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