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Google brings Nano Banana and Veo to Google TV through a new Gemini tab
A Create button inside the Gemini tab lets viewers generate images and video clips by voice, starting on TCL sets in the US.

Google Photos turns your camera roll into a Clueless-style digital closet
A new AI feature catalogs clothes from your library, builds outfits, and offers virtual try-on, landing on Android later this summer.

Shapes raises $8M to put AI characters inside human group chats
The Lightspeed-led seed funds an app with 400,000 monthly users where AI 'Shapes' chat alongside friends instead of one-on-one.

Firestorm Labs raises $82M to print drones inside shipping containers
The San Diego startup's xCell unit prints drone systems in under 24 hours and is already deployed with the Air Force in New York and Florida.

OpenAI faces seven California lawsuits over Tumbler Ridge school shooting
Families allege OpenAI's safety team flagged the shooter's ChatGPT account 8 months before the attack, but leadership declined to alert police.

Scout AI raises $100M to train a vision-language-action model for the battlefield
Coby Adcock and Collin Otis's defense lab is building an AI called Fury to drive ATVs and command drones, with $11M in DoD contracts already booked.

Ara Darzi says AI diagnostics now hit 99% accuracy on antibiotic-resistant infections
At WIRED Health in London, the Imperial College surgeon laid out the case that AI is the only credible answer to a crisis projected to kill 40 million by 2050.

Eka's robots screw in light bulbs and sort chicken nuggets, claiming a path to superhuman dexterity
MIT's Pulkit Agrawal and ex-DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja say simulation, not human demos, will crack the dexterity problem.

EU Delays AI Act Enforcement by Up to Two Years After Industry Lobbying
Brussels pushes high-risk AI compliance deadlines from August 2026 to as late as August 2028, handing European AI firms a reprieve.

600 Google Staff Urge Pichai to Drop Pentagon AI Deal Anthropic Walked Away From
More than 600 employees, including senior DeepMind researchers, are pressing Google to refuse a classified Pentagon contract.

Big Tech's $700B AI Capex Faces ROI Reckoning as Earnings Land
Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta and Amazon report this week with Wall Street demanding revenue proof for record AI infrastructure spending.

OpenAI CFO Clashes With Altman Over $660B Compute Bill and 2026 IPO Push
Sarah Fryer opposes a Q4 2026 listing as OpenAI faces $660 billion in compute commitments and missed Q1 revenue targets.

OpenAI CFO Breaks With Altman Over $660B Compute Bill and 2026 IPO Push
Sarah Fryer no longer reports directly to Sam Altman and has told colleagues OpenAI is not ready to go public next year.

Sony's Ace Robot Beats Elite Human Players at Table Tennis, Lands Nature Cover
Sony AI's table tennis robot is the first autonomous machine to win real matches against professional players, with planning loops under 200 milliseconds.

Google DeepMind's Athletica Solves Six of Ten Novel Math Proofs at Publishable Quality
DeepMind's new autonomous math agent, built on Gemini 3 DeepThink, scored above 91.9% on the IMO proof benchmark.

Meta contractor Covalen tells 700+ Dublin AI trainers their jobs are at risk
Roughly 500 of the affected workers are data annotators training Meta's content-moderation models — the second cut at Covalen in six months.

Google opens its AI to the Pentagon on terms Anthropic refused
Google joins OpenAI and xAI in signing broad DoD access; 950 of its own employees signed an open letter asking it not to.

Amazon adds 'Join the chat' audio Q&A to product pages across millions of listings
The Amazon Shopping app now lets customers ask follow-up questions and get conversational audio answers generated in real time.

Japan Airlines puts humanoid robots on Haneda baggage duty in 2026 trial
JAL will test Unitree's G1 and UBTECH's Walker E on cargo loading and cabin cleaning through 2028 as ground crew numbers keep falling.

Lovable ships its vibe-coding app on iOS and Android despite Apple crackdown
The no-code AI builder lets users prompt apps by voice or text on the go, with previews routed to the browser to satisfy Apple's review rules.

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano Omni claims 9x throughput edge over rival open multimodal models
The 30B-A3B mixture-of-experts model fuses vision, audio and text encoders, with a 256K context window and a 1920×1080 native input resolution.

FIDO, Google and Mastercard launch working groups for AI agent payments
Two new FIDO Alliance working groups will draft authentication standards for agent-initiated transactions, with AP2 and Verifiable Intent as starting code.

Rural America turns on the AI data center boom as 67% of new builds head for farm country
Pew finds 67% of planned data centers are now in rural areas, flipping a decade of urban concentration and igniting fights from Illinois to West Virginia.

GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing as inference costs double
Starting June 1, Copilot subscribers get AI Credits matching their monthly fee — overages billed by the token at API rates up to $30 per million.

Anthropic plugs Claude into Adobe, Blender, Autodesk and Ableton
A new set of connectors lets Claude drive 50+ tools across Adobe Creative Cloud, plus Blender, Autodesk Fusion, Ableton Live and Splice.

Otter adds enterprise search via MCP, pulling Gmail, Notion and Salesforce data
Otter now connects to outside apps as an MCP client as the notetaker pushes past 35 million users in a crowded field.

Red Hat engineer ships Tank OS to lock down OpenClaw agent deployments
Sally O'Malley's weekend project bundles OpenClaw into a rootless Podman container on Fedora Linux, aimed at IT teams managing agent fleets.

Neurable opens its non-invasive BCI tech to wearable makers after $35M Series A
The Boston-area startup wants OEMs to embed its EEG-plus-AI brain sensing into headphones, hats, and glasses without surgery.

YouTube tests Ask YouTube, an AI search that mixes text with video results
The opt-in feature returns step-by-step guides with embedded clips, available first to U.S. Premium subscribers aged 18 and over.

NVIDIA's Omniverse stack hits 99% sim-to-real accuracy at ABB Robotics
ABB, JLR, Tulip and Terex post double-digit gains as OpenUSD-based simulation moves from pilot to production floor.
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