SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, the first model built with Cursor. Musk calls it "Opus-class" but cheaper, aimed at coding, legal and finance work.

Fi's new Fi Ultra is the first dog collar to run on Starlink's direct-to-cell satellites, keeping pets trackable beyond phone towers, Fortune reports.

Anduril's Palmer Luckey says US universities train 'architecture astronauts' while China builds the real engineers, a warning echoed by Pfizer's CEO.

AI startup Rilla spends $1.7m a year on housing stipends so staff live near its NYC office and work 72-hour weeks. The CEO says it's about flow, not comfort.

Live, a full-duplex ChatGPT voice that listens and speaks at once, with live translation. It rolls out to all users, free ones too.

At RAISE Summit in Paris, ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski detailed a run to a reported $600m in revenue, and how the voice startup plans to beat the AI labs.

Perplexity has built an internal coding tool codenamed "Teammate" that could take on Cursor and Claude Code, Business Insider reports. A launch is unconfirmed.

At a Paris conference, Mark Cuban argued vibe-coding tools like Lovable and Replit can survive Anthropic and OpenAI by owning the workflow, not just the code.

France's ZML releases ZML/LLMD, a free inference server running open-source AI across Nvidia, AMD, Google, Intel and Apple chips at top speed.

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.

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.