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.

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.

A GitHub issue argues Microsoft's .NET LTS support is too short for enterprise upgrade cycles, with half of deployments running unsupported versions.

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

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.

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

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

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

Cursor's new iOS app lets developers launch and manage independent coding agents from their phone, as AI-powered development moves beyond the desktop.

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.

WhatsApp is opening username reservations for its three billion users, letting people connect without sharing their phone number for the first time.