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Manus raises over $500M to rebuild its agent alone

The Chinese agent developer lands a Boyu Capital-led round at a reported $4B valuation after…

Agentic AI Foundation takes on four projects and reaches ten total

OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face and Alibaba each handed over a component of the agent stack.

TypeSafe banks $870M at a $7.5B valuation weeks after Jev launch

TypeSafe, maker of the non-text Jev model, has raised $870M at a $7.5B valuation led…

Anthropic rewrites its usage rules to ban abusive chats and election meddling

Anthropic's updated usage policy outlaws election interference, weapons software, surveillance and prolonged verbal abuse of…

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GitHub Copilot Sheds Its All-You-Can-Eat Pricing. The AI Subsidy Era Is Over.

GitHub's shift to usage-based Copilot pricing signals the end of cheap AI for developers, as agentic assistants and soaring inference…

Europe’s DMA Bludgeons Google’s Android AI Monopoly: Third Party Assistants Finally Get a Seat at the Table

The EU's Digital Markets Act is forcing Google to break Gemini's privileged system access on Android, potentially letting third party…

Big Tech’s Middle East AI Dream Crashes as Drones Target Data Centers

A wave of drone and missile attacks on Gulf data centers has forced a major developer to halt investments and…

Beijing Blocks Meta’s Manus Grab: The ‘Singapore Wash’ Strategy Hits a Wall

China's move to block Meta's takeover of Manus signals the death of the 'Singapore washing' escape route for Chinese AI…

Ouster’s color lidar sensor aims to kill the camera in robotics and self driving cars

Ouster's Rev8 lidar fuses camera and depth sensing on a single chip, eliminating the need for separate sensor calibration in…

Huang’s Cheerleading Act: Nvidia’s CEO Dismisses AI Job Fears as Sci-Fi Hype

The Nvidia CEO's sunny predictions about AI creating jobs ignore a troubling reality where the same industry promising salvation is…

OpenAI and Anthropic’s New Ventures Are a Hostile Takeover of Enterprise AI

Wall Street is buying its way into the AI deployment pipeline, and both OpenAI and Anthropic are happy to sell…

The Xteink X3 Is Not a Salvation Device

The Xteink X3 e-ink reader is a charming but ultimately hollow antidote to screen addiction, demanding more discipline than it…