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Microsoft routes Copilot workloads to in-house MAI models, squeezing OpenAI and Anthropic, EU Parliament extends Chat Control 1.0 scanning measure for two years, Irish drone startup Manna opens U.S. factory in Tulsa targeting 80% metro coverage

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 family after first-ever U.S. government safety review, Waymo expands driverless rides to Las Vegas, San Diego, Denver, and Tampa, Google quietly opts users into AI training on Lens photos and voice searches

Higgsfield AI hits $500M ARR and profitability in 14 months, Norm AI raises $120M Series C at $1.2B valuation, Meta launches Muse Image with opt-out photo policy backlash

Tesla launches AI-powered home energy management with Powerwall, Nothing Phone 4b debuts in India with cricket edition, UK biotech sends longevity lab to orbit for drug research

Tesla launches driverless robotaxi in Miami with no safety driver, Unitree Robotics wins $619M Shanghai IPO approval, Alibaba bans Claude Code calling it high-risk spyware

Even Realities raises $150M and hits $1B valuation, Unitree Robotics wins approval for $618M Shanghai IPO, Tesla launches unsupervised robotaxi service in Miami to compete with Waymo

Quantum Systems raises $1.2B Series D valuing it at $8B, OpenAI proposes 5% equity stake for U.S. government amid conflict-of-interest concerns, India investigates Tata Electronics ransomware breach exposing iPhone 18 Pro secrets

Quantum Systems raises $1.2B Series D at $8B valuation for autonomous defense tech, Together AI closes $800M Series C at $8.3B valuation for open-source AI cloud, Kling AI raises $2.8B at $15B pre-money valuation with rivals as backers

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 for agentic AI at lower cost, Fable 5 returns after export control lifted, India's Skyroot Aerospace stacks Vikram-1 rocket for historic private orbital launch, Skyroot closes $60M round to become India's first space-tech unicorn at $1.1B valuation

Anthropic restores Claude Fable 5 after U.S. export control order sets AI governance precedent, Together AI raises $800M Series C at $8.3B valuation led by Aramco Ventures, Lime opens on Nasdaq at $27 in first major micromobility IPO in years

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as free-tier default with near-flagship agent performance, debuts $150M Claude Corps fellowship amid job displacement concerns, releases Claude Science research workbench in public beta

Comcast spins off NBCUniversal as standalone public company, Meta publishes non-invasive brain-to-text decoder, Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.2 open-weight model beating GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks

xAI launches Grok 4.5 in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla on V9 model with 1.5T parameters, Google deploys Gemini Omni Flash in Google Flow with multi-turn video editing and Flow Agent, Google restricts Meta's Gemini access amid compute shortage revealing enterprise AI infrastructure risks

China's GLM-5.2 outperforms Claude on vulnerability detection at fraction of cost, India opens world's first nuclear heat-driven hydrogen plant, xAI deploys Grok 4.5 in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla with monthly release cadence

Bungie cuts half its staff as Destiny 2 ends, OpenAI delays IPO to 2027 with Altman holding firm on $1T valuation, Amazon pledges additional $13B for India cloud and AI infrastructure

Cluely AI meeting assistant launches with bold claims, Airwallex raises $320M at $11B valuation with AI finance push, Dioxus Rust framework tops GitHub trending

Anthropic embeds Claude as a persistent Slack teammate, Agility Robotics announces a $2.5B SPAC deal with Foxconn backing, OpenAI unveils its first custom inference chip Jalapeño with Broadcom

Agility Robotics announces $2.5B SPAC merger with Foxconn anchor, OpenAI and Broadcom unveil custom Jalapeño inference chip, SK Hynix files for $29.4B Nasdaq ADR listing

OpenAI acquires Python toolmaker Astral for Codex integration, Menlo Ventures raises record $3B fund on Anthropic returns, MoEngage buys Aampe to deploy per-user AI agents in marketing

OpenAI acquires Astral and its Python developer tools, a fintech employee burns $81K in AI tokens on a game, Arch Linux freezes AUR registrations after Atomic Arch supply-chain attack hits 1500 packages

SK Hynix overtakes Samsung as Korea's most valuable company for first time in 26 years, GitHub ships standalone Copilot desktop app as agent orchestration platform, IonQ hires Quantum Industry Canada founder to lead commercialization

Midjourney announces full-body ultrasonic scanner and wellness spa with no FDA clearance, Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI after $2.7B deal fails to hold him, Pyth Network launches 24/7 institutional pricing indices for always-on financial markets

SpaceX acquires Cursor for $60 billion days after IPO, Mistral releases powerful open-weight Medium 3.5 model, Adani and Jabil target AI hardware manufacturing in India

Salesforce acquires Fin AI agent for $3.6 billion, n8n expands to London, IREN closes Nostrum acquisition in Spain

SpaceX prices largest U.S. IPO at $75 billion and surges past $2 trillion valuation, Elon Musk becomes history's first trillionaire as SPCX jumps 19% on debut day, OpenAI hit with 42-state subpoena over advertising and AI safety just days after confidential IPO filing

JPMorgan raises Tesla price target 227% citing physical AI platform, Blackstone's AirTrunk commits $30B to India data centers, Action Model AI crosses 250K users in under a month

Alphabet closes $84.75B equity offering — largest in U.S. history, Berkshire anchors $10B placement, Ramp launches AI operating system for accounting firms amid CPA pipeline crisis, IBM and Google Cloud form enterprise AI consulting partnership to bridge model access and production deployment

Microsoft unveils seven homegrown AI models at Build 2026, electric era and T1 Energy target AI data center power crunch, DeepSeek raises $7.4B at up to $59B valuation

Nvidia RTX Spark superchip enters PC market at Computex 2026, Mach Industries raises $300M at $1.8B valuation, Anthropic confidentially files for IPO at near-trillion-dollar valuation