California struck a deal with Anthropic giving all state agencies access to Claude at half price, despite the federal government labeling it a security risk.

Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard used by every major lab, has reached 100 million dollars in annualized revenue from its paid evaluation service.

WhatsApp is opening username reservations for its three billion users, letting people connect without sharing their phone number for the first time.

Cursor's new iOS app lets developers launch and manage independent coding agents from their phone, as AI-powered development moves beyond the desktop.

TIDAL will tag fully AI-generated tracks with an AI badge and block them from earning royalties, joining a growing crackdown across music streaming.

Proception founder Jay Li settles Tesla trade secret lawsuit and raises $11M from First Round Capital to ship dexterous robot hands to humanoid companies.

Google earthquake alerts reached 11.4 million Android users seconds before Venezuela's quakes, turning phone sensors into a seismic warning network.

The South Korea AI investment plan commits $880bn to chip fabs, 18.4GW of data centres and robots, as Samsung and SK Hynix race to lead.

Rocket Lab will pay $54 a share for Iridium, an ~$8bn deal that turns the launch firm into a vertically integrated space operator.

Nearly 400 local US newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging their reporting was copied to train ChatGPT and Copilot without pay.

Over 100,000 Flock surveillance cameras now track US drivers, amid security flaws, police misuse and poles appearing in yards unannounced.

The Momenta IPO targets up to $752M in Hong Kong at a near-$9bn valuation, as the GM- and Toyota-backed firm funds robotaxi expansion.