China is rebuilding the smartphone around AI agents. ZTE’s NaviX sold out in hours.
Apple raised iPhone 17 prices by 10% in Japan as the yen hovers near a four-decade low
An AWS billing bug sent users estimated charges of up to $2.5 trillion
Anthropic is in early talks to lease $10 billion in compute from Meta
France and Germany pledge to build a European rival to Palantir’s military AI software
The White House is now deciding who gets access to frontier AI models, not the labs
Chinese car sales in the UK jumped from 384 in 2015 to 285,000 last year. The tariff gap explains why.
Nebius raised $775 million by borrowing against its GPUs. It has $40 billion more contracts to securitise.
Meta patented an AI system that listens to your voice all day and tracks your mood
Kevin O’Leary says data centres use less water than golf courses. The numbers are more complicated.
Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in
A French startup built a radiology viewer from scratch with AI at its core. Moffitt Cancer Center is already using it.
Cybercriminals released 802,000 stolen accounts in one day during the World Cup group stage
Face AI upgrades its video face swap tool with faster processing and better tracking
Jensen Huang’s leather jacket sold for $960,000 at Sotheby’s, 96 times its retail price
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a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents
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AI was supposed to kill the travel agent. Instead it just minted a billion-dollar one.
Agentic AI is moving from drafting doctors’ notes to routing their patients. Bunkerhill just raised on it.
The AI boom’s least glamorous winner just filed for a $5bn listing, and it wires Google and Amazon’s data centres
SWISSto12 raised $70M, and it is that rare thing: a profitable space startup
Fireworks raised $1.5bn on a bet that companies will build AI, not rent it
While everyone builds chatbots, SAP just closed a €1bn-plus bet on AI that understands your spreadsheets
Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud
