The startup rejected OpenAI's $500M bid for its gaming video data. Now it's raising $300M at a $2B valuation to train AI agents on 2 billion video game clips per year.

Liberty Bank, the oldest mutual bank in the US with $9 billion in assets, launched an AI Center of Excellence with enterprise AI partner Flare AI.

Apple will allow alternative app marketplaces and third-party payments in Brazil starting with iOS 26.5, following a CADE antitrust settlement. The changes mirror EU concessions.

BMW cut its car division margin forecast to as low as 1%. Chinese brands now hold nearly 10% of Europe's car market while crushing European profits in China.

Architect Labs raised a $24mn seed led by Kindred Ventures to build an AI that designs & verifies custom chips, taking on Broadcom & Marvell.

FERC told grid operators to speed up data centre connections to the grid. On the same day, the Trump administration paid $765 million to kill offshore wind leases.

Seattle's Gradial has raised a $65mn Series C led by Insight Partners at a $675mn valuation, deploying AI agents across enterprise marketing tools.

UPS detailed AI initiatives including a digital twin of its global network, agentic control towers for customers, and RFID-powered tracking across all US vehicles.

Midjourney unveiled a full-body ultrasound scanner its founder says beats an MRI, plus a Midjourney Medical division and a spa. The medical claims are unproven.

Unreal Engine 6 will let studios plug Claude, Gemini or any model into game-making, even as 52% of developers say gen AI is bad for the industry.

Yann LeCun called Musk's xAI a 'failure' and warned AI labs face a 'big bubble explosion' unless they raise prices, while raising $1bn for his own bet.

NASA tapped Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space for a 2028 Mars orbiter. The catch: it has never reached orbit, and the mission carries a data centre for Mars orbit.