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Amazon's Cloud Growth Gives Investors Patience for a $220 Billion AI Buildout
AWS revenue rose 37%, helping the company defend infrastructure spending that would be harder to justify without a clear hosting business.
CareCloud Breach Exposes Medical and Financial Data of at Least 345,000 People
The health-technology provider says attackers accessed an AWS-hosted patient record store for six days in March.
Google Says AI Helped Chrome Teams Patch 1,072 Security Bugs in June
Two browser releases fixed more flaws than the previous 23 versions combined, changing the economics of vulnerability discovery.
FTC Sues Hims & Hers Over Alleged Sharing of Patient Data With Advertisers
The agency says health information was sent to Meta and Snap through tracking tools without adequate notice or consent.
ChipAgents Adds $60 Million as AI Moves Deeper Into Semiconductor Design
The Silicon Valley startup says autonomous software agents can shorten expensive chip-development cycles, with verification emerging as an early target.
Google Expands Privacy-Preserving Age Signals for Android Apps
Developers worldwide will be able to receive an age range without collecting a user's exact birth date.
X Settles Advertising Boycott Lawsuit With Industry Trade Group
The agreement ends a multiyear case against the World Federation of Advertisers after a federal court dismissed X's competition claims.
Encore AI Raises $30 Million to Train Agents From Real Customer Conversations
The platform analyzes calls, messages and CRM outcomes to turn effective human techniques into reusable sales and support playbooks.
Runlayer Sues Rippling Over Alleged Copying of Its MCP Gateway
The dispute centers on source code and product plans shared during a year-long enterprise trial that ended without a commercial agreement.
eBay and Former Executives Agree to $56 Million Cyberstalking Settlement
The payment resolves a civil case brought by EcommerceBytes writers Ina and David Steiner over a 2019 harassment campaign.
Nvidia Reportedly Invests $5 Billion in Safe Superintelligence
The chipmaker's strategic partnership with Ilya Sutskever's research lab couples new capital with access to Vera Rubin computing systems.
Cast Insights Raises $4.5 Million to Index Live Spoken Media
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
World Foundation Raises $52.5 Million Through a Locked Token Sale
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
OpenAI Launches Presence for Managed Enterprise Agents
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
Visa Introduces AI Financial Assistant for Banking Apps
Banks can offer spending insights, natural-language answers and card controls under their own brands.
Together AI Raises $800 Million at an $8.3 Billion Valuation
The open-model infrastructure company plans to expand training and inference services as enterprises seek alternatives to closed AI platforms.
Proception Raises $11 Million for Dexterous Robot Hands
The robotics startup introduced its first commercial hand and closed a seed round after settling a trade-secret dispute with Tesla.
Aseon Labs Raises $10 Million for Automated Robotaxi Service Stops
The startup plans parking-space-sized pods that can inspect, clean and charge autonomous vehicles inside their operating areas.
Patronus AI Raises $50 Million to Simulate the Worlds Agents Work In
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
OpenAI Launches Patch the Planet for Open-Source Security
The initiative combines AI-assisted vulnerability research with expert review to find, validate and repair flaws in widely used software.
Clair Health Raises $11.6 Million for a Hormone-Tracking Wearable
The Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
Prometheus Raises $12 Billion to Pursue AI for Physical Engineering
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
Drafted Raises $16 Million to Use AI in Home and Floor Plan Design
The Y Combinator startup is turning sketches and ideas into editable plans and three-dimensional views for homeowners and design professionals.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.8 for Long-Running Professional Work
The model focuses on sustained tasks, calibrated uncertainty and more reliable reasoning.
Google Tests Gemini-Built Ads Inside AI Search
Conversational Discovery, Highlighted Answers and new shopping formats move sponsored content deeper into generated search experiences.
Commure Raises $70 Million at a $7 Billion Valuation
The Mountain View healthcare technology company is expanding AI systems for revenue, clinical documentation and practice operations.
Google DeepMind Licenses Contextual AI Technology and Hires Researchers
The $80 million to $90 million arrangement moves more than 20 employees without a formal company purchase.
Recursive Superintelligence Emerges With $650 Million
Richard Socher's new laboratory is pursuing AI systems that can improve their own research process, backed at a reported $4.65 billion valuation.
Exaforce Raises $125 Million for Real-Time AI Security Operations
The Bay Area cybersecurity startup is building agents that investigate attacks with a live knowledge graph rather than simply sorting alerts after they arrive.
Android Intrusion Logging Gives Spyware Investigators Better Evidence
The opt-in Pixel feature stores encrypted security records so targeted users can share evidence of a suspected compromise.
Anthropic Gives Managed Agents Time to Learn From Past Work
The Dreaming research preview reviews completed sessions and writes memory updates intended to reduce repeated mistakes.
Intuit Unveils QuickBooks Workforce for End-to-End HR Management
The platform connects recruiting, payroll, time tracking, benefits and performance for smaller employers.
Era Computer Raises $11 Million to Build a Software Layer for AI Gadgets
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
Adobe Firefly AI Assistant Coordinates Work Across Creative Apps
The conversational agent can plan and complete tasks using Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe tools.
Anthropic Previews Claude Mythos With a Security-First Rollout
The general-purpose frontier model is initially limited to selected cybersecurity partners rather than a public API release.
Google Expands Search Live to More Than 200 Markets
The camera-and-voice search experience now supports real-time multilingual conversations wherever AI Mode is available.
Google Pushes Gemini Deeper Into Docs, Sheets and Slides
The update can assemble drafts from company information, build spreadsheets and create presentations with broader Workspace context.
Meta Acquires AI-Agent Network Moltbook
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Build Spatial Intelligence Models
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
The Biological Computing Co. Raises $25 Million to Develop Neuron-Based Computers
The Mission Bay startup is building laboratory systems that use living neurons for AI workloads, an ambitious alternative to conventional silicon.
Fundamental Emerges With $255 Million for Enterprise Data Models
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
Bedrock Robotics Raises $270 Million for Autonomous Construction
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.
