The FTC has drafted a potential lawsuit accusing Amazon of misleading advertisers over hidden ad pricing, a case that could cost billions, Bloomberg reports.

Convey has raised a $38M Series A led by a16z to build AI 'teammates' that own back-office work, betting the label beats 'agent' in a crowded enterprise market.

Google's first smart speaker in six years, the $99 Google Home Speaker, ships June 25, but Gemini Live and its best AI features need a $10/month subscription.

Palantir engineers, has raised a $60M Series A from Index, ICONIQ and SAP to untangle the legacy code inside big firms.

The US Commerce Department awarded Nvidia-backed SandboxAQ $500M under the CHIPS Act to invent PFAS-free, rare-earth-free chip materials, taking an equity stake.

Neuralink rival Paradromics has implanted its Connexus brain chip in a woman who lost her speech to motor neuron disease, the first patient in its FDA study.

Helion is the first company licensed to operate a fusion power plant. But the Sam Altman-backed firm still has to prove fusion can deliver commercial power.

The Pentagon says Grok helped strike 2,000 targets in Iran, and that its polluting data centre is too vital to switch off. Both claims should alarm us.

Twenty, a US cyber warfare startup that openly builds offensive cyber weapons, raised $100M led by Accel at a $1bn valuation as Washington embraces offence.

World-models startup Odyssey AI raised $310M at a $1.45bn valuation, naming AWS and AMD as backers months after taking Nvidia's venture cash.

Microsoft is weighing a self-hosted DeepSeek model to cut Copilot Cowork's costs, a Chinese-AI move likely to draw Trump-administration scrutiny.

Estonia says it will be the first country to give AI agents personal ID numbers, so people don't have to hand a bot their entire digital identity to act for them.