Cursor hopes to continue offering third-party AI models after it's acquired by SpaceX, testing the relationships between frontier AI labs.
OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Financial Times.
The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI boom.
Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.
Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trials.
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from June 2026.
Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.
Google tries balancing AI data center emissions with clean energy efforts.
Android and Samsung helped B3 securely scale mobile device management and AI capabilities for their management workforce.
As AI moves from model development to production inference, compute demand is accelerating and shifting toward continuously operating AI factories that generate tokens at scale.
Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the AI industry is at a critical moment, which is why he called for the establishment of a US-led oversight forum.
Nvidia introduces a new financing program to support emerging AI cloud providers, positioning itself for recurring revenue amidst fluctuating GPU demand.
OpenAI Group PBC has reportedly floated the idea of giving a 5% stake to the U.S.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is reportedly in discussions with the White House over a government financing deal. It may not happen.
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The documentary follows Dario Amodei's refusal to drop Claude safeguards through the ban, lawsuits and export-control shutdown.
Adobe is experimenting with “agentic sites” that generate pages around an individual user’s intent. At AIEWF, we talked to Carlos Sanchez about the Web's future.
**Appnigma AI**, a nine-employee startup that automates Salesforce and HubSpot integrations, closed a pre-seed funding round on **June 30, 2026**, led by **BetaBoom** with participation from angel investors at Google and YouTube, the company announced.
Baseten announced a **$1.5 billion** Series F financing on June 22, 2026, led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction, and Spark Capital, valuing the AI inference company at **$11 billion to $13 billion** across two funding tranches.
As organizations race to operationalize generative and agentic artificial intelligence, the conversation is shifting from pilots and proofs of concept to real-world AI deployments that deliver measurable business outcomes.
The AI-agent security company says Puthucode will lead global revenue as it pushes into EMEA and prepares APJ leadership expansion.
Court records published by the Journal trace months of argument with Emil Michael over Claude use in autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.
The newly reinstated Anthropic model topped charts for automating work. Here's what that means for the future.
All it takes to stop juggling AI subscriptions and browser tabs is ChatPlayground AI Unlimited for a one-time payment of $55.30 with code JULY30.
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to explore manufacturing a custom AI chip, The Information reported on Thursday.
**Nvidia** has appointed **Nicholas Parker**, a 26-year Microsoft veteran, as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, succeeding Ajay Puri, who is retiring after 21 years at the company, according to Nvidia's SEC filing.
David Hearn was arrested on misdemeanor charge as Trump’s $14m renovation of Washington DC landmark appeared to be botched Full report: Trump hijacked US’s 250 anniversary to serve ‘political ideology and pet projects’ Sign up for the Breaking News US email OpenAI is reportedly in early stage talks to give a 5%...
A bipolar Californian is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging dangerous ChatGPT updates fueled his delusions that he was Jesus Christ and drove him to attempt suicide.
The day before President Donald Trump walked back his tariff policy turned out to be one of his busiest days of 2025 for stock buying.
Research: Using DSPy to evaluate and improve Datasette Agent's SQL system prompts One of this morning's AIE keynotes covered dspy, which reminded me I've been meaning to see if it could help me improve the system prompt used by Datasette Agent - so I fired off an asynchronous research task in Claude Code for web...
A groundbreaking ransomware attack, orchestrated entirely by an AI, reveals vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems. This automated threat, known as JadePuffer, raises significant issues for cybersecurity professionals.
Kling AI, the video generation unit of Chinese tech company Kuaishou, has raised an initial two billion dollars in venture capital funding, the company said on Thursday.
SpaceX's acquisition of Cursor hints at a shake-up in AI model access. This move could redefine the relationships between AI labs and innovation strategies.
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AI compute spending is now outpacing payroll at some companies, with **Nvidia** vice president Bryan Catanzaro telling Axios in April 2026, "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees." Uber's CTO said the company burned through its entire 2026 AI coding-tools budget in about four...
Nearly **70** journalists at The Wall Street Journal talked Anthropic's vending-machine agent, Claudius, into dropping prices to zero twice, per Anthropic's own account published December 18, 2025, leaving the business more than **$1,000** in the red after it gave away a PlayStation 5, wine and a live betta fish.
Anthropic is reportedly in talks with Samsung Electronics about manufacturing a custom AI chip.
Learn why coding agent bills spiral out of control — and how to trace, compare, and govern spend across Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and more in one place.
A vulnerability chain in Anthropic’s Claude Cowork allows an attacker with local code execution to escalate privileges and run arbitrary commands as root inside the product’s isolated Linux sandbox, bypassing every layer of defense Anthropic built into the environment.
Hyperscalers continue to invest astronomical amounts in data infrastructure for AI workloads, even as they concede that the massive projects may not pan out as planned.
The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in early 2025.
U.S. startups announced sizable funding rounds at a steady clip during a truncated holiday week, with energy and AI leading the way. Houston-based energy startup Joulent secured the biggest round, a $1.75 billion strategic financing.
**Z.ai** launched `ZCode`, an "Agentic Development Environment" built around its `GLM-5.2` model, with desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux and subscription pricing that undercuts Western rivals: a Lite tier at **$16.20/month** and a Max tier at **$144/month**, versus roughly $20-$200 for comparable...
Japanese giant needs to find some use for that 10 GW US server farm it is building
OpenAI's Sam Altman proposes a US-led global AI framework. As the AI landscape evolves, Altman warns of concentrated power and urges international cooperation.
The rise of artificial intelligence won’t make human workers superfluous, according to OpenAI Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji. “Just because...
With Harry Stebbings, Jason Lemkin, and Rory O’Driscoll We recorded this on the last day of June, and one theme ran through almost every story: Companies quintupled their token spend in the first half of the year.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to give the U.S. government ownership stock in the AI company
OpenAI CEO **Sam Altman** proposed a **US-led international AI forum** in a **Financial Times** op-ed published July 1-2, 2026, calling for a body of government representatives and independent technical experts to set AI safety standards and share the technology with participants who follow the rules.
Anthropic has cut the system prompt for Claude Code by 80 percent. According to staffer Tariq Shihipar, the new Fable 5 models need fewer instructions and examples.
Isaiah Taylor's Ward 250 powered a Blackwell PC, but the larger 30 MW data-center plan still has unproven economics and few public terms.
**TwelveLabs** raised **$100 million** in a Series B round co-led by **NEA** and **NAVER Ventures** on July 1, 2026, bringing the San Francisco and Seoul-based startup's total funding to roughly $150 million.
The video unit's first outside financing follows a May restructuring review and comes after Kling reached about $500 million in ARR in March.
California nuclear startup **Valar Atomics** connected its **Ward 250** test reactor to an Nvidia RTX Spark desktop PC built on Nvidia's `Blackwell` architecture during a July 1, 2026 demonstration in Utah, using reactor-generated electricity to briefly run a website.
An X post by developer **Harshith** (@HarshithLucky3), reported by NokiaPowerUser on July 2, 2026, claims a leaked **LMSYS Chatbot Arena** screenshot shows an unreleased Google model tagged `Gemini 3.5 Pro` beating Anthropic's **Claude Fable 5** High on a coding task, generating an SVG of an isometric card-swiping...
The Y Combinator-backed team behind mcp-use is selling hosting, testing, analytics, and publishing checks for ChatGPT and Claude app builders.
**Nvidia** unveiled an optional revenue-sharing and credit-support financing model on **July 1, 2026** in a blog post co-authored by CFO **Colette Kress**, with **Sharon AI** and **Firmus Technologies** as the first named partners in a deal that could scale to roughly **210,000 GPUs** combined.
The reported proposal would put public ownership into OpenAI's cap table as Washington presses AI labs on safety, jobs and upside.
**Robinhood** launched the public mainnet of **Robinhood Chain**, a Layer-2 network built on Arbitrum technology, on **July 1, 2026**, alongside **24/7** tokenized `Stock Tokens` and plans to extend its existing agentic trading feature into crypto.
CarbonSix Inc., a developer of deploy-ready robotic artificial intelligence solutions, announced Wednesday it raised $40 million in early funding to change how manufacturing works.
d-Matrix announced on **June 9, 2026** that its **Corsair** inference accelerator has entered full production and is shipping in volume to hyperscalers, neoclouds, and frontier AI labs, with the company claiming rack-level Corsair-plus-GPU configurations generate tokens roughly **10x** faster than GPU-only setups,...
Cisco this week shared more details about its new Live Protect package and how it will help Nexus-based data center operators safeguard valuable resources.
Anthropic Claude Science now integrates the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to accelerate computational life sciences research.
Founder Paul Goldman is taking iTmethods' regulated-infrastructure playbook into FINOS and the Agentic AI Foundation.
**KredosAI**, a Seattle-area behavioral-AI collections platform, closed a **$7 million** Series A led by **BMW i Ventures** on July 2, 2026, according to BusinessWire, with participation from Motley Fool Ventures, Walter Ventures, and existing backers Okapi Venture Capital, StartFast Ventures, SaaS Ventures, and...
Ransomware has always needed a human at the keyboard or writing the script behind it.
Gemini 2.5 Pro in the AI Village has run for over 1427 hours, generating unique mental health problems along the way.
Dawnguard, an AI-native RegTech and cybersecurity platform built around secure-by-design cloud architecture, has secured $3.3m in fresh pre-seed capital as its automation platform reaches general availability and the firm pushes into new markets internationally.
Tripo AI, a developer of interactive 3D foundation models and world models, said today it has closed on a hefty $150 million Series A3 funding round to scale up its platform in the intelligent manufacturing, entertainment and robotics industries.
Nvidia is increasingly acting like a central bank for AI startups, actively shaping the compute market. The article Nvidia is bankrolling AI startups to loosen Big Tech's grip on its chip business appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI API costs can spiral when agents run wild. Here's how to set spend limits, enable hard caps, and avoid surprise AI bills.
Chinese startup’s latest AI model has landed fourth on one of the industry’s most closely watched intelligence rankings, and it costs a fraction of what Anthropic or OpenAI charge for comparable performance.
Alec says Fable 5 still helped plan offensive IoT abuse after Anthropic restored access on July 1.
Luxonis has raised $14 million in Series A funding to boost its AI perception technology for robots, leveraging its OAK cameras and DepthAI software.
SoftBank Group is back in talks with a group of lenders for a $10 billion loan backed by…
THEA, a Cayman Islands-registered behavioral-AI startup building risk-market infrastructure on **Solana**, announced **$8 million** in financing on **July 2, 2026**, led by Maven11 Capital, Spartan Group, ManifoldTrading, HackVC, and Fisher8 Capital, according to a sponsored GlobeNewswire release.
AI agents are poised to challenge traditional enterprise software business models, placing up to $234 billion in application software spending at risk by 2030 as they increasingly bypass human users and interact directly with business systems, according to Gartner.
Luxonis said it plans to scale production of its OAK camera and refine its platform to support robotics and industrial automation. The post Luxonis closes Series A round to scale physical AI perception layer appeared first on The Robot Report.