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New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave
Italian startup Exein has become Europe's newest unicorn after raising $270 million at a $1.7 billion valuation to scale its cybersecurity platform for physical AI and connected devices.
Profound Raises $180M Series D at $1.8B Valuation
New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, bringing its total funding above $335 million.
Salesforce, Nvidia launch Koa reasoning model
Salesforce and Nvidia unveiled Koa, a new reasoning AI model built on Nvidia’s Nemotron, designed to handle enterprise sales and customer service tasks more securely and efficiently than frontier mode
Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by utilizing AI collision-avoidance software and new sensors (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
Agility Robotics on Tuesday unveiled Digit 5, a humanoid robot designed to operate safely alongside humans without physical barriers, using AI collision-avoidance software and new sensors for close-pr
Flam raises $40M from QED Investors, Shah Rukh Khan
AI-powered interactive content startup Flam raised $40M from QED Investors, Shah Rukh Khan, and others, with plans to channel the capital into R&D, product expansion, and enterprise sales scaling.
Samsung Co-Leads €200M Round for Dutch Chip Startup Euclyd
Dutch inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M+ Series A round co-led by Samsung alongside three other investors, as capital floods into alternative AI silicon.
Apple Rolls Out iOS 27 With Smarter Siri
Apple released iOS 27 to the public, with coverage highlighting a smarter Siri and dozens of new iPhone features alongside a redesigned Siri AI test ahead of the iPhone 18.
Trump Dismisses AI Safety Fears as 'Hoax'
US President Donald Trump branded AI safety fears a 'hoax' and rejected calls for stronger guardrails, breaking with a growing chorus of industry CEOs and political figures from across the spectrum de
Sunk Cost Calculator Tracks Local LLM Break-Even
A Hacker News user shared 'Sunk Cost,' a calculator that estimates how long it takes for a local LLM rig to pay for itself compared to paying API costs, with user-adjustable assumptions and clearly la
OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says
OpenAI has acquired smartphone camera startup Glass Imaging for over $300 million, absorbing the former Apple engineers behind Portrait Mode as the ChatGPT maker ramps up its consumer hardware ambitio
Exclusive | OpenAI Buys Startup Developing Smartphone Camera - WSJ
OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, an Israeli-founded smartphone camera startup founded by ex-Apple engineers, in a deal reportedly valued at over $300 million.
New DDRop Attack Breaks Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP Confidential Computing
Researchers have disclosed DDRop, a hardware attack using a ~$159 interposer to silently drop memory writes and break Intel TDX, Intel Scalable SGX, and AMD SEV-SNP confidential-computing protections,
Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.7 and macOS Sequoia 15.8 - MacRumors
Apple released a coordinated batch of OS updates spanning macOS Tahoe 26.7, the older macOS Sequoia 15.8, iOS 26.6.2/26.7, and iPadOS 26.7 across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Steam Frame starts at $1059
Valve has launched its Steam Frame VR headset at a starting price of $1,059, a figure that drew immediate industry scrutiny over whether VR remains too expensive for mainstream adoption.
Valve's Steam Frame Launches at £1,089 Amid VR Cost Debate
Valve's Steam Frame VR headset launches in the UK at £889 (256GB) or £1,089 (1TB), earning praise for comfort and streaming tech while reigniting debate over whether VR hardware is pricing itself out
China Slams Anthropic CEO's AI 'Fearmongering'
China publicly rebuked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's calls for slowing AI development, with state media labeling his warnings as 'fearmongering' and 'self-serving.'
Trump's Nobel Pursuit Tied to US-China AI Deal
An article frames a potential US-China AI agreement as a path to winning Trump the Nobel Prize, noting the gold medal has already shaped his decision-making.
Burry Calls AI Slowdown Push 'Self-Serving'
'Big Short' investor Michael Burry dismissed AI leaders' calls to slow AI development as 'self-serving' and said he is not worried, pushing back against figures like Dario Amodei whose essay 'We Must
H1 2026: 35,853 CVEs Published, Only 495 Exploited
AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery to unprecedented volume — 35,853 CVEs in the first half of 2026, up roughly 49% year-over-year — while only 495 were exploited in the wild, exposing a wideni
AI Chiefs Call for Slowdown; Trump Team Pushes Back
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling on the US government to regulate AI and let competitors coordinate without antitrust risk, drawing rare endorsements from OpenAI, Microsoft, and M
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