Companies, products, and big moves
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Two infrastructure stories frame the day: Alibaba Cloud is industrializing the AI data center — compressing builds that once took a year into 100 days — and Ryanair is handing its operations to Gemini agents. Alibaba Cloud says its CUBE 5.0 modular architecture can deliver a large-scale AI data center
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Suno became the defining product of AI music on scale alone. A new Bloomberg profile counts the users, the subscribers, and the legal bills piling up behind them. Bloomberg's profile of Suno — the AI music generator more than 100 million people have used since its 2023 launch — lands
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Two stories this evening trace where AI's center of gravity is moving: Washington is preparing to hand Palantir up to $244 million without a competitive bidding process, and the researcher who built Alibaba's Qwen is leaving to build agents that cross into the physical world. A
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The AI talent exodus from OpenAI keeps producing new companies: former chief product officer Kevin Weil is raising a nine-figure round for an AI-for-science startup, and CoreWeave's earnings showed the infrastructure buildout underneath it all is still accelerating. Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former chief
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The AI buildout took two steps toward becoming a real financial market today: CME Group is turning GPU rental into a traded commodity, and Super Micro's earnings showed the demand underneath it is still accelerating. Plus, Uber and Serve Robotics — the sidewalk-delivery robot company it helped spin
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OpenAI closed its last desktop gap Tuesday: a preview ChatGPT app for Linux that brings ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and the Codex coding agent to the operating system where much of the world's AI development already happens. OpenAI released a ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview, ending the
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SpaceXAI is taking Grok from chatbot to autonomous coworker with the beta launch of Grok Bot, while a Wisconsin woman's second armed stop over a misread license plate is putting automated police surveillance under a fresh spotlight. SpaceXAI on Tuesday launched Grok Bot, a new AI agent app
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Google's AI had a two-front day: CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Gemini has passed 1 billion monthly users — Google's 14th product to reach the mark — while the company's medical AI, AMIE, posted what its researchers call the first expert-level results for real-
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OpenAI's longest-serving business executive is out the door, and the shakeup at the world's most valuable AI lab just got its biggest name yet. Brad Lightcap, who spent eight years at OpenAI — most recently leading its special projects division after years as chief operating officer
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Europe's sovereign-AI push got concrete today. Mistral turned regional inference, third-party open models, and a coalition of industrial giants into a single infrastructure play — and a coalition of more than 40 digital-asset organizations pressed AI labs to open frontier models to defenders. Mistral moved its
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The AI agent startup that Beijing forced out of Meta's hands is going solo again — and the separation comes with a data wipe for some users. Manus will "soon return to operating as an independent company," the AI agent startup announced Tuesday, formally closing out the
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China's embodied-AI money is moving from robot bodies to robot senses. Ant Group led a strategic round in tactile-sensing startup Daimon Robotics, which also unveiled what it calls the first "physical interaction brain"; meanwhile Westlake Robotics banked its fourth round in six months, and