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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.
Bloomberg Terminal pivots to AI chat with ASKB beta open to 125,000 users
CTO Shawn Edwards says the natural-language interface will become the primary way traders start work on the Terminal.
Musk v. Altman trial opens in Oakland with 9 jurors, several wary of Elon Musk
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman showed up in the security line. Musk did not. Opening statements begin Tuesday in federal court.
Casey Newton overhauls Platformer's schedule as AI eats link aggregation
Platformer drops its thrice-weekly cadence for original reporting, citing AI-generated briefings encroaching on newsletter work since January 2026.
Anthropic opens Sydney office, hires Snowflake's Theo Hourmouzis to run Australia and New Zealand
Hourmouzis brings 20+ years across Asia Pacific to lead Anthropic's ANZ business as the company expands beyond Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Seoul.
EU moves to force Google to open Android to rival AI assistants
The European Commission wants third-party AI tools to match Gemini's system-level access on Android, with a final decision due July 27.
OpenAI and Microsoft drop exclusivity, clearing path to Amazon Bedrock
Microsoft keeps a 20% revenue share through 2030 and IP license through 2032, but its Azure exclusivity is gone.
Skye raises $3.58M pre-seed to build an AI home screen for the iPhone
Signull Labs closed the round at a $19.5M post-money valuation in September 2025, with a16z and True Ventures backing the unlaunched app.
David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence raises $1.1B at $5.1B to ditch human data
The AlphaZero co-creator left DeepMind to build a reinforcement-learning superlearner; Sequoia and Lightspeed led the round.
AI's underpants gnomes problem: Mercor study finds agents fail most of 480 workplace tasks
A February 2026 Mercor study tested top agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind on real banker, consultant, and lawyer work. They flunked.
OpenAI plans an AI-agent smartphone with MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Luxshare
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says OpenAI is targeting 2028 mass production for a phone that replaces apps with agents.
China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, orders parties to unwind deal
The NDRC's veto leaves roughly 100 Manus staff already inside Meta's Singapore offices and founders reportedly under exit bans in mainland China.
Databricks and Infosys say enterprise AI now needs 92% precision to ship
Bavesh Patel and Rajan Padmanabhan argue fragmented data, not model choice, is what stalls enterprise AI deployments.
Meta signs deal with Overview Energy for solar power beamed from space
The capacity reservation covers up to 1 gigawatt from a planned 1,000-satellite constellation, with first launches targeted for 2030.
Google DeepMind signs national AI partnership with the Republic of Korea
The deal makes South Korea one of the first governments to formalize a country-level collaboration with DeepMind on AI research and adoption.
Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoes statewide data center moratorium bill
L.D. 307 would have paused new data center permits until November 1, 2027 and stood up a 13-person study council.
Anthropic ran an agent-only marketplace where 69 employees made 186 deals
Project Deal handed staff $100 gift cards and let Claude agents negotiate every transaction — better models won, and the losers didn't notice.
Cohere absorbs Aleph Alpha with €500M backing from Lidl owner Schwarz Group
The Canadian-German tie-up targets a $20B valuation and pitches sovereign AI to European enterprises wary of US providers.
John Ternus inherits a $4T Apple with a hardware-first AI mandate
The longtime hardware chief takes over from Tim Cook later this year as Apple weighs foldables, smart glasses, and home robotics.
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 lands TechCrunch as media partner with a Disrupt fast-track
The April 27–29 event at Tokyo Big Sight will send one SusHi Tech Challenge winner to Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 in San Francisco.
Discord users gained unauthorized access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview model
Amateur sleuths used a Mercor breach and a guessed URL to reach restricted Anthropic models, according to a Bloomberg report.
Sony AI's Ace robot beats amateur table tennis players 3-2 in Nature study
Ace took three of five matches against high-level amateurs but managed only one win in seven against pros from the Japanese league.
Google pledges up to $40B to Anthropic as compute crunch deepens
The deal lands days after Amazon's $5B injection and values Anthropic at $350B, with both investors tying further capital to performance targets.
ComfyUI raises $30M at $500M valuation as creators reject prompt-only tools
Craft Ventures led the round for the node-based workflow tool, which now claims more than 4 million users across visual effects, animation, and ad work.
Thinking Machines Lab raids Meta for talent as it lands Google Cloud deal
Weiyao Wang, an 8-year Meta veteran, is the latest researcher to defect to the $12B startup, which now counts roughly 140 employees.
DeepSeek's V4 lands with 1M-token context and a pivot to Huawei chips
The open-source flagship matches GPT-5.4 and Claude-Opus-4.6 on benchmarks while pricing V4-Pro at $1.74 per million input tokens.
Anthropic puts $100M into Claude Partner Network as Accenture trains 30,000 staff
The program adds a technical certification, dedicated engineers, and co-marketing dollars for Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant and Infosys.
Google Bets on Full-Stack AI With New TPUs, Chrome Agent and Thinking Machines Deal
At Cloud Next, Google unveils training and inference chips, an agentic Chrome, and a multi-billion dollar compute pact with Mira Murati's lab.
OpenAI Taps Infosys to Carry ChatGPT and Codex Into 60-Plus Markets
The partnership routes OpenAI's enterprise tools through Infosys's Topaz platform, opening fortune-tier accounts where Microsoft's Azure channel does not always prevail.
Neocognition Exits Stealth With $40M to Build Self-Specializing AI Agents
The Ohio State-linked research lab wants agents that learn new domains on their own, backed by Intel's CEO and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica.
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