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.

Microsoft is merging Copilot’s chat, coding, Cowork and autonomous agents into a single AI “super app” spanning consumer and enterprise this year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.