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Stellantis taps Mobileye for hands-free driving assist
Stellantis will deploy Mobileye's Level 2 hands-free driving technology across its vehicle brands starting in 2027, joining five of the world's ten largest automakers feeding Mobileye's crowdsourced m
Mercor H1 Revenue Jumps 70% to $614M
AI data startup Mercor booked $614M in gross revenue in H1 2026, a 70% jump over all of 2025, with roughly 91% of that revenue coming from foundation model labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
A touchscreen and light make the new X4 Pro the best version of Xteink’s tiny e-readers
Xteink's $99 X4 Pro adds a touchscreen and front light to its pocketable e-reader line, making it the best version yet despite a proprietary charging connector and unpolished stock software that the t
OpenAI: 10M Users on Codex and ChatGPT Work
OpenAI reports 10 million people now use Codex and ChatGPT Work, nearly doubling usage since ChatGPT Work launched earlier this month.
SkyPilot Raises $20M Seed From Lux for GPU Orchestration
SkyPilot, a GPU orchestration startup co-founded by Databricks' Ion Stoica, raised a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital, positioning itself as a vendor-neutral layer across hardware and cloud p
Singapore: AI now 'actor in its own right' in warfare
Singapore's Permanent Secretary for Defence Joseph Leong warned at the 4th Digital Defence Symposium that technology has shifted from 'just a tool' to 'an actor in its own right,' with agentic AI enab
Burnham Scraps UK Science Tech Dept, AI Minister Joins Cabinet
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is abolishing the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology and elevating AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, who oversees the AI Safety Institute, to a seat at cabin
China weighs tighter AI and chip export controls, consults firms
Chinese regulators are weighing tighter export controls on artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies, consulting leading domestic AI companies in a bid to slow advanced tech exports.
America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen3.8 launched claiming to trail only the top US models at roughly half the cost, triggering market jitters — but the recurring 'shock' framing, not the launches,
Syensqo Taps Microsoft Discovery for AI Cooling Materials
Materials company Syensqo argues that advanced polymers, elastomers, and specialty fluids — not just chips or algorithms — now define the physical limits of AI, and is using Microsoft's Discovery plat
Microsoft Fairwater Exposes AI's GPU Energy Demands
Microsoft's Fairwater data center in Wisconsin, built on a failed Foxconn site, is now the world's most powerful AI facility — spotlighting Nvidia B200 GPUs' staggering energy demands and the environm
UK scraps DSIT, elevates AI minister in Burnham reshuffle
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has elevated AI Minister Kanishka Narayan to cabinet while abolishing the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, redistributing its functions across other depar
Metastable Materials mines metals from India's battery waste
Bengaluru-based startup Metastable Materials is treating India's mounting battery waste not as refuse but as a resource, extracting lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and aluminium from spent batteries
30 Sundays Bags Rs 61 Cr Series A Led by Bessemer
Gurugram-based AI-native travel platform 30 Sundays raised Rs 61 crore in a Bessemer-led Series A round, with plans to expand into Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and the Philippines.
Anthropic's $1.5B Copyright Deal Wins Final Approval
A federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers who accused it of using pirated books to train AI — the largest U.S. copyright settlement ever, p
NVIDIA Detects AI Video at 92% in 22ms
NVIDIA launched its Synthetic Video Detector NIM microservice, achieving 92% accuracy on uncompressed video and processing 1080p footage in 22 milliseconds on RTX systems to help newsrooms flag AI-gen
Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned
Chris Fall resigned as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation after three months, making him the third leader to depart the Trump-era AI standards agency in less than a year.
Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Google is developing a new server chip codenamed 'Frozen v2' that could make its Gemini AI models up to 10 times more efficient, with a 2028 release target as the company races to reduce Nvidia depend
Natural Raises $30M to Build AI Agent Payment Rails
Natural, a startup building payment infrastructure for autonomous AI agents, raised a $30 million Series A led by Forerunner's Kirsten Green to compete head-on with Stripe in redesigning financial rai
Trump AI Advisers Feud Over China's Free Kimi Model
Moonshot's release of Kimi—a free, open-source Chinese AI model rivaling paid US systems—has ignited a public feud among President Trump's AI advisers over whether the government should intervene to p
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