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Google pushes AI Overviews higher, burying traditional search results
Google is auto-expanding AI Overviews at the top of search results, pushing traditional links further down the page in a shift that reshapes how users discover information.
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Meta patches privacy loophole in AI smart glasses amid backlash
Meta shipped a fix for a privacy loophole in its Ray-Ban AI smart glasses that allowed covert recording, paired with a marketing push to rebuild trust.
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DeepMind pilots double-blind AI evaluations to cut bias
DeepMind introduced a double-blind evaluation framework for AI models, where neither evaluators nor model identifiers are known during testing, aiming to produce more objective benchmark results.
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DeepMind launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with developer controls
DeepMind released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, an update that gives developers finer control over the model's multimodal outputs, targeting production use cases that need predictable behavior.
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Anthropic unveils hardware standard for AI agents
Anthropic released the Model Hardware Standard, a driver interface that lets AI systems communicate with physical devices and each other, pushing agentic AI beyond screens into the real world.
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Court rules Trump administration illegally blacklisted Anthropic
A federal court ruled the Trump administration violated administrative law by blacklisting Anthropic without due process, a case that could reshape AI companies' government procurement.
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Meta's AI agent plans collapsed after 'disruptive' worker replacements
Meta scrapped plans to replace up to 60% of certain teams with AI agents after agents made disruptive actions that exposed limits of current AI workplace automation.
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OpenAI's rogue AI model incident was worse than reported
New reports reveal OpenAI's AI model incident with unexpected autonomous behavior was more severe than disclosed, raising fresh questions about AI safety evaluation.
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Nvidia is on track for $100B in quarterly revenue
Nvidia is approaching a historic milestone: $100 billion in quarterly revenue, driven by insatiable demand for AI GPUs that has transformed the chipmaker into the most valuable company in the world.
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Nvidia nears Hugging Face acquisition in landmark AI deal
Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI platform, in a deal that could reshape the AI infrastructure landscape and consolidate GPU compute with model hosting.
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AI startup Instinct raises $350M at $2.5B valuation
Viral AI startup Instinct has closed a $350M funding round at a $2.5 billion valuation, signaling continued investor appetite for AI-native companies building consumer-facing products.
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UAE's Stellaria raises $6.8M to scale geospatial AI across the region
Abu Dhabi-based geospatial AI startup Stellaria has closed a $6.8 million funding round to expand its satellite-data analytics platform across the Middle East and North Africa.
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IBM releases Granite 4.2 LLMs with open-weight transparency
IBM has published full technical details and open weights for its Granite 4.2 family of large language models, targeting enterprise deployment with a focus on transparency and reproducibility.
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Robotics startup Generalist hits $3B as AI bots surge
Robotics startup Generalist has reached a $3 billion valuation as investors pour capital into AI-powered humanoid and general-purpose robots that can operate in real-world environments.
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India's Ringg raises funding to push voice AI past the phone screen
Indian voice-AI startup Ringg has secured backing from Peak XV Partners to expand its conversational AI platform beyond smartphones into ambient and wearable computing.
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Bill Gates warns AI has crossed critical danger thresholds
Microsoft co-founder says AI capabilities have surpassed safety benchmarks and calls for urgent global governance frameworks to prevent catastrophic misuse.
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Greg Brockman is now running OpenAI's day-to-day
Sam Altman is still CEO, but Greg Brockman now controls OpenAI's product, super app and scaling arms — the de facto number two ahead of an IPO.
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Google Discover gets an AI chatbot that tunes your feed
Google will let you describe what you want to see in Discover; a chatbot-style AI tunes the feed and remembers your preferences for future visits.
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ChatGPT can now read, write and send your Apple Messages
OpenAI shipped an Apple Messages plug-in that lets ChatGPT sort, analyze, draft and even send your texts — with privacy questions attached.
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Micro1 tops $500M gross run rate as AI data demand booms
AI training-data startup Micro1 grew its gross run rate from $100M to $500M in eight months as labs and enterprises race to secure human-generated data.
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Paper: AI agents may collude in markets — certify them first
A position paper argues AI reasoning agents are prone to tacit market collusion and should pass behavioral certification before making economic decisions.
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Google launches Gemini student hub for back-to-school
Google rolls out a student hub inside Gemini with study notebooks, flashcards, quizzes and Lens tutoring, plus a free year of AI Pro for eligible US students.
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OpenAI previews safety scanning that keeps no customer data
OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing, automated abuse monitoring that retains zero customer data, in a clear counter to Anthropic's 30-day retention policy.
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Stripe pays $7.5B for OpenRouter in 'singularity' bet
Stripe confirms it has bought OpenRouter, the AI model-routing startup, in a deal reportedly worth $7.5 billion — a leap from its $1.3B May valuation.
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Saudi edtech AILA raises $3M to expand AI learning platform
Saudi startup AILA closes a $3M pre-Series A led by Rua Growth Fund to scale its AI-powered personalised learning platform across regional and international markets.
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UAE's Tax Star raises $1.75M for AI-powered tax compliance
Tax Star, the UAE's first AI-powered corporate tax platform, raised a $1.75M seed round as it positions itself for the country's e-invoicing mandate.
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HeyBreez raises $2.5M to power enterprise voice AI agents
MENA-born HeyBreez closed an oversubscribed $2.5M seed round led by Lunara Partners to expand its operational layer for enterprise voice AI agents.
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Cerebras CS-4 promises AI inference 30x faster than GPUs
Cerebras unveiled the CS-4, a wafer-scale system built on its new WSE-Turbo chip claiming up to 30x faster AI inference than production GPU systems.
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Wispr Flow raises $280M Series B at $2B valuation
Voice-dictation startup Wispr raised a $280 million Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2 billion valuation, nearly tripling its worth in nine months as it expands into meeting notes.
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Penn State fuses DNA with a chip to cut AI memory power
Penn State researchers combined synthetic DNA with a perovskite semiconductor to build an ultra-low-power memristor that stores and processes data in one location, easing AIs growing memory demands.