London startup Fleek has raised $25m in Series B funding, led by early Vinted backer Burda, to scale the AI it uses to sort, grade and price used clothing.

Customers are 3x more likely to use third-party GenAI like ChatGPT than company chatbots for support, Gartner finds, as AI returns lag the spend.

NATO signs a ~€200M, seven-year deal with Accenture and Leonardo to build a secure cloud backbone, the Protected Business Network, for the Alliance.

OpenAI's deployment arm is acquiring applied-AI firm Northslope, its second buy since May, betting that helping enterprises use AI beats better models.

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is raising about $10bn in its first outside round, valuing the rocket firm at $130bn, CNBC reports, after SpaceX's record IPO.

Cloudflare is piloting with OpenAI to feed real-time network signals into ChatGPT's search, a turn for a firm built on blocking AI crawlers.

Apple will spend more than $30bn with Broadcom to make 15 billion US chips, its largest American manufacturing pledge, with a $1.5bn Fort Collins plant.

A RAISE Summit keynote with Mozilla's and Mistral's chiefs argued open-source AI is resilient. Then the power went out and they carried on in the dark.

Frontier AI models are outrunning the benchmarks built to measure their hacking skills, just as a 1 August US deadline for new testing standards looms.

Nomagic says its vision-language-action model, running in live warehouses, halved robot-caused human interventions. Its new AI lab bets on mastery first.

Beijing calls Anthropic's Claude Code a security back-door as US House committees probe American firms using cheap Chinese AI models, CNBC reports.

MiniMax is building a 2.7-trillion-parameter model, the largest in China, and plans to open-source it as early as Q3, The Information reports.