BYD will debut its first humanoid robot, reportedly called Xiao Di, in August, putting service robots in its showrooms as it pushes into embodied AI.

Microsoft is merging Copilot’s chat, coding, Cowork and autonomous agents into a single AI “super app” spanning consumer and enterprise this year.

China has threatened retaliation over the US ban on Chinese robot imports, with rare earths and Tesla and Nvidia market access as leverage, NYT reports.

Airlines are using AI to reprice seats in real time, squeezing out the bargain fares travellers once found on busy routes.

Intel is giving stealth startup Rosaic rare access to its Atom chip tech. Rosaic is run by a longtime co-investor of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

A bipartisan group of US senators has urged Apple to drop plans to buy memory chips from Chinese suppliers CXMT and YMTC, citing national-security risks.

Winamp is making another comeback: a new player due in 2027 will add a Deezer-powered subscription alongside your local files, radio and podcasts.

Amazon is winding down most of its Nova AI models to focus on one new frontier model, due at re:Invent this autumn.

Agon, founded by Anduril and Applied Intuition veterans, has raised $30mn to build a synthetic training arena for Europe’s defence AI.

NHS England admits its paperwork failed to disclose that Palantir staff can see identifiable patient data in the Federated Data Platform.

Wiz found a “Cosmos Master Key” that could unlock every Azure Cosmos DB database. It is patched, and Wiz’s AI bug-hunter helped find it.

Friend relaunched its AI-companion pendant with a speaker that talks back, at double the price ($249). The privacy objections have not changed.