Friend relaunched its AI-companion pendant with a speaker that talks back, at double the price ($249). The privacy objections have not changed.

Four core staffers have left Steven Bartlett’s “Diary of a CEO” in five months, as the podcast pushes into the US and builds out its media empire.

The EU plans to put ChatGPT and Roblox under the DSA’s strictest tier as soon as August, making ChatGPT the first AI chatbot to face those rules.

Amazon’s Zoox has won the first US exemption to charge for rides in a purpose-built robotaxi with no steering wheel, capped at 2,500 cars a year.

Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, a year after founder Alexandr Wang left for Meta, signalling a pivot to enterprise AI.

Simile raised $200m at a $2bn valuation to build AI “agentic twins” that companies survey instead of running real market research.

LinkedIn has added a “Seems like AI slop” button to flag machine-written posts, following its May crackdown and a report that 41% of long-form posts are AI.

Amazon’s internal metrics show AI running projects far over budget, including $1.8m on a Claude job that overshot 860% and failed. AWS sells the fix.

Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2 gives one AI model whole-body control of humanoids and lets robots work as a team, though dexterity still lags.

Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund Situational Awareness sold its public stocks to Citadel after leveraged AI bets collapsed. It keeps its Anthropic stake.

The EU has opened a €30bn call for up to seven AI gigafactories to rival the US and China, though only ~€1bn is committed and the chips remain American.

AEREDIUM has been granted a U.S. patent for a multi-model AI system that continuously verifies digital asset reserves, records verdicts on-chain, and can automatically halt token transactions when ...