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Amazon develops a warehouse robot workers can speak to

Amazon is rolling out a new version of its autonomous warehouse robot, Proteus, that workers can talk to using natural language instead of specialized software. The company unveiled the upgrade as part of an accelerating push to automate op

The VergeJun 4
Industry Jun 3

Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says

Lovable, the Stockholm-based "vibe-coding" startup, has struck an expanded multiyear deal with Google Cloud that will quintuple its footprin

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Industry Jun 3

Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

Alphabet has pulled off what looks to be the largest equity offering in corporate history, raising a staggering $85 billion through stock sa

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Tools Jun 3

Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

Google Labs has rolled out a new mobile app called Dreambeans, available on both iOS and Android, that uses artificial intelligence to trans

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Industry Jun 3

As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise

A senior editor at The Verge is questioning whether AI assistants like Google's new Gemini agent "Spark" are actually solving the right prob

The Verge
Tools Jun 3

Amazon’s search bar will invent AI-generated products you can’t buy

Amazon is rolling out an AI-powered search feature in its shopping app that generates made-up product images based on text descriptions, eve

The Verge
Tools Jun 3

Amazon will show AI product images when you search for some reason

Amazon is rolling out AI-generated product images in its shopping app, and the move is raising eyebrows among retail observers who question

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Startups Jun 3

These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked

AethexAI, a voice AI startup focused on underserved markets in Africa and the Middle East, has closed a $3 million pre-seed round led by 4DX

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Startups Jun 2

Cyera eyes $12B valuation at 80x ARR multiple despite operating losses

Cyera, the AI-focused data security startup founded in 2021, is closing a funding round of at least $300 million led by Evolution Equity Par

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Industry Jun 2

Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months

Uber has rolled out strict internal spending limits on AI tools after the ridesharing company burned through its entire annual artificial in

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Tools Jun 2

New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions

Microsoft on Tuesday introduced ASSERT, an open-source framework designed to help developers test whether AI systems behave correctly for th

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Industry Jun 2

Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI

Legendary director Martin Scorsese has joined forces with Black Forest Labs, the German AI image-generation startup, as both a partner and a

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Tools Jun 2

Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant

Microsoft has unveiled Scout, a new AI personal assistant built on the OpenClaw framework, designed to bring autonomous agent capabilities t

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Tools Jun 2

Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior

Microsoft is rolling out a new open-source framework called Agent Control Specification (ACS), designed to give developers more precise over

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Regulation Jun 2

Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial recognition feature

Amazon was hit with a class action lawsuit on Monday over its Ring doorbell cameras' "Familiar Faces" feature, which uses AI to identify peo

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Industry Jun 1

Alphabet plans to raise $80B to pay for AI buildout

Alphabet is launching an $80 billion stock offering to fund a major expansion of its artificial intelligence capabilities. The Google parent

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Industry Jun 1

Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

Nvidia unveiled its RTX Spark "superchip" at Computex in Taipei on Sunday, marking the company's aggressive push into the $200 billion CPU m

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Regulation Jun 1

Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a first-of-its-kind state lawsuit on Monday against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing th

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Tools Jun 1

This could be Windows’ M1 moment — but expect it to cost a ton

Nvidia has officially entered the consumer laptop processor market with its RTX Spark chip, drawing immediate comparisons to Apple's game-ch

The Verge
Models Jun 1

Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo

Google's new AI agent, Gemini Spark, is making waves as a tool that can autonomously handle multi-step tasks in the background, but early ha

The Verge
Industry Jun 1

Water access is now a risk factor in SpaceX’s IPO

SpaceX has added a new concern to the risk factors listed in its IPO filing: access to water. The amended prospectus, filed Monday and repor

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Industry Jun 1

Anthropic files to go public

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, has taken the first formal step toward going public. The company a

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Startups Jun 1

This AI weather startup is out-forecasting government agencies

WindBorne Systems, a startup founded by Stanford students in 2019, released its WeatherMesh 6 AI weather forecasting model on June 1, 2026,

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Regulation May 31

Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is taking on a new fight: demanding greater transparency from data center operators. The activist, wh

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Industry May 31

Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis

Box founder Aaron Levie sparked widespread discussion this week with a social media post describing tech CEOs as "uniquely prone to AI psych

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Tools May 31

I went looking for the AI weed vape that gives you Bitcoin for smoking

A London-based Verge reporter spent weeks investigating Gudtrip, a weed vaporizer that promises users Bitcoin rewards for smoking. Robert Ha

The Verge
Industry May 30

SoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build French data centers

SoftBank Group has unveiled plans to invest up to €75 billion (approximately $87 billion) to expand data center capacity in France. The Japa

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Tools May 30

‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs

GitHub Copilot is shifting to a token-based billing system starting June 1, replacing its flat subscription model with a pay-per-usage appro

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Tools May 30

Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

Meta is working on an AI-powered wearable device that users can wear as a pendant, according to an internal memo reviewed by The Information

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Tools May 30

I put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful

Google's new Gemini Spark assistant runs around the clock in the cloud, allowing users to offload their digital tasks without keeping their

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