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Industry

As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says

OpenAI has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering, a move that could turn into one of the largest stock market debuts of the decade. The news comes as Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, is also dealing with turbulence at his o

TechCrunchJun 8
Regulation Jun 8

Apple’s WWDC AI demos looked more real after $250M false ad settlement

At Apple's 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8, the Cupertino tech giant appeared to make a deliberate shift in how it showcased

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Industry Jun 8

OpenAI files confidentially for IPO, following Anthropic

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, submitted a confidential draft registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday

TechCrunch
Tools Jun 8

Apple’s long-awaited AI Siri overhaul is finally here

Apple finally delivered on its long-promised AI Siri overhaul at WWDC 2026 on Monday, two years after the company first announced a smarter

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Tools Jun 8

WWDC 2026: Everything announced on Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and more

Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference kicked off Monday morning at 10 a.m. PT at Apple Park, marking a significant moment for the c

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Regulation Jun 6

The Trump administration might take an equity stake in OpenAI

The Trump administration is in talks to take an equity stake in OpenAI as part of a broader push to give the American public a financial sha

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Industry Jun 7

Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?

Microsoft's GitHub Copilot is moving away from its flat-rate pricing model in favor of charging users per token — a shift significant enough

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Tools Jun 7

Notion restores access to Anthropic after service disruption

Notion briefly cut off its users from Anthropic's AI models on Sunday after the productivity software company reported a spike in failures t

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Tools Jun 7

OpenAI is still working on that ‘super app’

OpenAI is preparing to launch a significantly revamped version of ChatGPT within the next few weeks, transforming the chatbot into what the

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Tools Jun 6

OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks

OpenAI has introduced a new "Lockdown Mode" for ChatGPT, aimed at shielding users from prompt injection attacks — a technique in which adver

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Tools Jun 6

What to expect from WWDC 2026: Siri’s highly anticipated revamp and Apple Intelligence updates

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off Monday, June 8, 2026, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET, with the spotlight firmly fixed on the long

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Industry Jun 6

Sriram Krishnan is leaving his role as White House AI advisor

Sriram Krishnan, the senior policy advisor on artificial intelligence at the White House, will step down from his role at the end of June. K

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Industry Jun 6

The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, says only people who live in ‘shitty houses’ oppose data center

A proposed $2 billion data center in Shelbyville, Indiana, has sparked a heated political dispute after Mayor Scott Furgeson was recorded di

The Verge
Tools Jun 6

Meta made its own AI-generated clickbait news feed

Meta has been quietly building an AI-generated clickbait news feed inside its standalone Meta AI app, surfacing a stream of fully fabricated

The Verge
Tools Jun 6

Here comes new Siri again

Apple is gearing up to once again showcase its revamped Siri at WWDC 2026, marking yet another attempt to deliver on AI promises first made

The Verge
Startups Jun 5

Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days

Founders have just three days left to apply for Startup Battlefield 200, with the application window closing on June 8 at 11:59 p.m. PT. The

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Industry Jun 5

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

SpaceX has secured a massive new compute contract with Google, just months ahead of its anticipated IPO. According to a regulatory filing on

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Startups Jun 5

The most interesting startups right now want to get you off your phone

While AI startups continue to attract record-breaking funding rounds, a counter-movement of founders is building products designed to pull p

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Tools Jun 5

This is your laptop… on AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his keynote this week to pitch a radical vision for the future of personal computing — one where laptops are re

The Verge
Industry Jun 5

The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs

Companies that once rushed to flood their operations with AI are now scrambling to rein in runaway token costs, as the bill for the AI gold

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Industry Jun 5

The latest AI news we announced in May 2026

Google I/O 2026 marked the company's official entry into what it calls the agentic Gemini era. The company launched Gemini 3.5, described as

Google AI Blog
Startups Jun 5

The ‘together tech’ wave might be the most intriguing startup bet of 2026

While the AI sector continues to dominate venture capital headlines, a counter-movement of "together tech" startups is emerging as one of th

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Startups Jun 5

This AI startup says it can tell if a script will make a hit film

A new AI startup called Quilty is making bold claims that its software can predict whether a film will be a box office hit or a flop just by

The Verge
Startups Jun 5

Mira Murati steps back into the spotlight, carefully

Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer of OpenAI who now runs her own AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, broke a roughly 18-month

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Industry Jun 4

Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns

Anthropic has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering, co-founder Daniela Amodei confirmed Thursday at the Bloomberg T

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Industry Jun 4

Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is moving from AI advisor to AI builder, planning to launch his own artificial intelligence lab, according to a Bloo

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Industry Jun 4

Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18

StrictlyVC is bringing its signature investor-focused event to Los Angeles on June 18, with just two weeks until doors open at The Aerospace

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Industry Jun 4

Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents

Meta is taking an unconventional approach to scaling its AI infrastructure, erecting massive tent-style structures to house data centers out

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Industry Jun 4

Kevin O’Leary agrees to downsize massive Utah data center

Kevin O'Leary has agreed to scale back his massive Project Stratos data center in Utah, cutting roughly 19,430 acres from the originally pla

The Verge
Tools Jun 4

Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook

Meta announced on Thursday the launch of a new AI-powered creator assistant on Facebook, designed to offer personalized guidance to content

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