China has threatened retaliation over the US ban on Chinese robot imports, with rare earths and Tesla and Nvidia market access as leverage, NYT reports.

Intel is giving stealth startup Rosaic rare access to its Atom chip tech. Rosaic is run by a longtime co-investor of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

Amazon is winding down most of its Nova AI models to focus on one new frontier model, due at re:Invent this autumn.

Airlines are using AI to reprice seats in real time, squeezing out the bargain fares travellers once found on busy routes.

BYD will debut its first humanoid robot, reportedly called Xiao Di, in August, putting service robots in its showrooms as it pushes into embodied AI.

Microsoft has a fix for the growing pile of Copilots you are meant to use. It wants to stuff them all into a single app. On its earnings call this week, chief executive Satya Nadella confirmed ...

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.

Wiz found a “Cosmos Master Key” that could unlock every Azure Cosmos DB database. It is patched, and Wiz’s AI bug-hunter helped find it.

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

A bipartisan group of US senators has urged Apple to drop plans to buy memory chips from Chinese suppliers CXMT and YMTC, citing national-security risks.

Agon, founded by Anduril and Applied Intuition veterans, has raised $30mn to build a synthetic training arena for Europe’s defence AI.

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