California struck a deal with Anthropic giving all state agencies access to Claude at half price, despite the federal government labeling it a security risk.

Rome has given ~700 elderly residents a bracelet that tracks heart rate, sleep and falls, backed by daily social-worker calls, during a record heatwave.

Washington lobbying firms are dropping Alibaba and Tencent ahead of a Pentagon rule barring defense work for firms that also lobby for Chinese companies.

Amazon is exploring OpenAI as an alternative to Claude after a renegotiated contract with Anthropic will raise costs through token-based pricing.

Google is opening Gemini's Nano Banana image generation to free-tier US users, removing the paywall on AI images drawn from Gmail, Photos, and Search data.

Waymo robotaxis are no longer on Uber's app in Phoenix, ending a three-year pilot as both companies pursue competing autonomous vehicle strategies.

Taiwan prosecutors raided Super Micro's office and two affiliated companies, expanding the island's first AI chip smuggling crackdown.

The NASA Swift telescope rescue sends a robotic spacecraft to grab the falling observatory and boost its orbit, a first-of-its-kind $30M mission.

Proception founder Jay Li settles Tesla trade secret lawsuit and raises $11M from First Round Capital to ship dexterous robot hands to humanoid companies.

TIDAL will tag fully AI-generated tracks with an AI badge and block them from earning royalties, joining a growing crackdown across music streaming.

Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard used by every major lab, has reached 100 million dollars in annualized revenue from its paid evaluation service.

Peec AI is reportedly raising at a $200M valuation, double its price eight months ago, betting that GEO is becoming the new SEO for the AI era.