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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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Wobbly Humanoid Robots Get Airport Trial, But Vague Videos Raise Doubts

Japan Airlines' humanoid robot trial at Haneda Airport looks more like a desperate PR stunt than a viable solution to…

AI’s Dirty Secret: Behind the Meter Gas Plants Are Torching Climate Goals

Behind the meter natural gas plants, built specifically to power AI data centers, are on track to emit more greenhouse…

Google’s Gemini trap: How buried settings and forced defaults steal your privacy

Google's Gemini integration is a labyrinth of dark patterns where the only way to protect your privacy is to cripple…

Google’s $40 Billion Anthropic Gambit Is a Dangerous Conflict of Interest

Google's $40 billion investment in Anthropic is less about supporting AI innovation and more about constructing a closed loop where…

Google Splits Its TPU Line in Two. Good Luck Keeping Up With Nvidia.

Google's new TPU 8t and TPU 8i split the chip into training and inference roles, betting the agentic era will…

GitHub Copilot’s Free Ride Is Over: Usage Based Pricing Hits Developer Wallets

GitHub’s shift to usage based billing for Copilot exposes the unsustainable economics of subsidizing agentic AI coding assistants, signaling a…

EU Threatens Google’s Android AI Monopoly: Gemini’s Special Treatment Under Fire

The European Commission's proposal under the Digital Markets Act would force Google to give third-party AI assistants equal system-level access…

Big Tech’s Middle East AI Dream Turns Into a Drone War Nightmare

A drone strike on a data center in Abu Dhabi has forced a major developer to freeze all Middle East…