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.

LinkedIn has added a “Seems like AI slop” button to flag machine-written posts, following its May crackdown and a report that 41% of long-form posts are AI.

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

Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, a year after founder Alexandr Wang left for Meta, signalling a pivot to enterprise AI.

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.

A researcher showed hidden instructions in a Word file can make Copilot alter a report and infect the next document. Microsoft’s fixes did not close it.

ByteDance now makes about $4bn a year from AI, the most any Chinese firm has disclosed, and is folding its Lark app into Doubao and its cloud unit.

CoreWeave and Leidos will run CoreWeave’s AI cloud inside SCIF-accredited data centres for US intelligence and defence, a sovereign-compute push.

EY has built an “AI router” that steers tasks to cheaper models to control token costs, as its survey finds 82% of firms worried about AI bills.

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.

Bloom Security emerges from stealth with a $20M seed led by Glilot Capital and Ten Eleven Ventures. The Tel Aviv startup argues that AI agents, MCP servers, and browser extensions have turned every ...

Sam Altman calls “cognitive atrophy” an underappreciated AI risk, echoing researchers who warn that letting AI think for us can weaken our own minds.