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Amazon is rolling out AI-generated product images in its shopping app, and the move is raising eyebrows among retail observers who question why a massive e-commerce platform would show shoppers fake p

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 Ventures, with Enza Capital, Dorm Room Fund, Mojo Ventures,

Microsoft has unveiled Scout, a new AI personal assistant built on the OpenClaw framework, designed to bring autonomous agent capabilities to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Announced on June 2, 2026, th

Microsoft on Tuesday introduced ASSERT, an open-source framework designed to help developers test whether AI systems behave correctly for their specific products and services. Short for Adaptive Spec-

Legendary director Martin Scorsese has joined forces with Black Forest Labs, the German AI image-generation startup, as both a partner and adviser. The 82-year-old filmmaker confirmed to The New York

Cyera, the AI-focused data security startup founded in 2021, is closing a funding round of at least $300 million led by Evolution Equity Partners that would value the company at $12 billion, according

Uber has rolled out strict internal spending limits on AI tools after the ridesharing company burned through its entire annual artificial intelligence budget in just four months, according to a Bloomb

Microsoft is rolling out a new open-source framework called Agent Control Specification (ACS), designed to give developers more precise oversight over how autonomous AI agents behave once deployed. An

Amazon was hit with a class action lawsuit on Monday over its Ring doorbell cameras' "Familiar Faces" feature, which uses AI to identify people who regularly visit a user's home. The suit, filed in Se

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 hands-on testing by The Verge's Jay Peters suggests the experi

Nvidia has officially entered the consumer laptop processor market with its RTX Spark chip, drawing immediate comparisons to Apple's game-changing M1 debut in 2020. Announced at Computex 2026 and cove

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a first-of-its-kind state lawsuit on Monday against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of rushing ChatGPT to market while ignoring safety

SpaceX has added a new concern to the risk factors listed in its IPO filing: access to water. The amended prospectus, filed Monday and reported by journalist Sean O'Kane on June 1, 2026, warns prospec

Alphabet is launching an $80 billion stock offering to fund a major expansion of its artificial intelligence capabilities. The Google parent company announced Monday that it would sell shares worth th

Nvidia unveiled its RTX Spark "superchip" at Computex in Taipei on Sunday, marking the company's aggressive push into the $200 billion CPU market with a processor designed specifically for AI-powered

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, has taken the first formal step toward going public. The company announced in a Monday blog post that it submitted a draft reg

WindBorne Systems, a startup founded by Stanford students in 2019, released its WeatherMesh 6 AI weather forecasting model on June 1, 2026, claiming it outperforms the systems developed by the Europea

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is taking on a new fight: demanding greater transparency from data center operators. The activist, whose legal battle against Pacific Gas & Electric was dramatiz

Box founder Aaron Levie sparked widespread discussion this week with a social media post describing tech CEOs as "uniquely prone to AI psychosis." The comment was examined on TechCrunch's Equity podca

A London-based Verge reporter spent weeks investigating Gudtrip, a weed vaporizer that promises users Bitcoin rewards for smoking. Robert Hart discovered the device through a Slack message on 4/20, th

A digital deception campaign is exploiting AI technology to create fake Black influencers who emotionally manipulate viewers into purchasing mass-produced Shein merchandise at inflated prices. One suc

In 2022, Craig Campbell turned down investor funding to start a website instead of chasing the AI boom that was swallowing up the tech industry. Campbell, a former Meta engineer and serial entrepreneu

Google Chrome and Apple's Safari continue to dominate the browser market in 2026, but a new wave of competitors is challenging their supremacy. Chrome maintains its lead largely due to Google's aggres

SoftBank Group has unveiled plans to invest up to €75 billion (approximately $87 billion) to expand data center capacity in France. The Japanese conglomerate, which counts both OpenAI as an investor a

Google's new Gemini Spark assistant runs around the clock in the cloud, allowing users to offload their digital tasks without keeping their computer powered on. CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted this dist

GitHub Copilot is shifting to a token-based billing system starting June 1, replacing its flat subscription model with a pay-per-usage approach that could significantly increase costs for many develop

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. The company plans to begin testing the device within the n

Cognition has secured $1 billion in funding at a $26 billion valuation, making the two-year-old startup one of the most valuable AI companies in the industry. The company created Devin, one of the fir

A startup called Shift is offering to clean New Yorkers' homes for free — with one condition. The company wants to record everything its cleaners do: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting furnitu

In February 2026, AI research lab METR encountered a significant obstacle while attempting to update earlier research on AI coding productivity. The researchers found that most developers simply refus

Groq, the AI chip startup, is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investors as it pushes deeper into the inference neocloud market, according to sources cited by Axios. Th

Box founder Aaron Levie has coined the term "AI psychosis" to describe a troubling pattern in corporate America: the executives making decisions about replacing workers with AI are often the least qua

AI chip startup Groq is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investor base, according to sources cited by Axios. The San Jose-based company is positioning this funding roun

China's Shanghai Futures Exchange is developing a derivatives market specifically for AI tokens, joining CME Group and the Intercontinental Exchange in building infrastructure for trading AI-related f

AI training startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services, but customers will have to accept a small trade-off: cameras mounted on cleaners' heads recording every swipe of the sponge and vacuu

Glean, the enterprise AI search platform sometimes called "the Google for work," has hit $300 million in annual recurring revenue, tripling its $100 million revenue mark from just 15 months prior. The

Anthropic has closed a massive $65 billion funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, positioning the AI company for what could be its final private fundraising before going public. The Ser

Amazon Web Services has launched a new version of OpenSearch Serverless, a fully managed search and vector database specifically designed for AI agents rather than human users. Traditional cloud infra

Asana has purchased StackAI, a no-code agent-building platform, for $75 million as part of its push to become an AI-first workplace platform. The acquisition, announced Thursday alongside Asana's earn

Anthropic has launched Opus 4.8, the latest iteration of its flagship AI model, marking the fastest upgrade cycle in the company's recent history. The new model arrived just 41 days after Opus 4.7 hit

Vertu, the luxury smartphone maker headquartered in Hong Kong, has unveiled the Alphafold, a foldable device designed specifically for business executives who need to manage company operations on the

YouTube is rolling out a new AI-powered feature that generates personalized video feeds based on text descriptions of what viewers want to watch. Users can describe their interests, mood, or specific

Google's annual developer conference I/O made it clear that AI-generated responses have taken over the front page of search results, and most companies have no idea what AI systems are saying about th

Google's AI Overview feature is making elementary spelling mistakes that have become the subject of ridicule online. The artificial intelligence incorrectly stated there are two P's in "Google" (there

Snowflake has committed $6 billion over five years to Amazon Web Services in a new cloud infrastructure agreement, the companies revealed Wednesday. The deal represents a substantial portion of Snowfl

Remote, a seven-year-old payroll company headquartered in Amsterdam, announced it has crossed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and achieved cash-flow positive status. But the metric the compan

Cognition, the startup behind the autonomous AI software engineer Devin, has secured over $1 billion in new funding at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, the company revealed Wednesday. This marks a d

Meta is expanding its subscription business with new monthly plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp users worldwide. The company announced on May 27, 2026, that it is rolling out consumer subscri

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sat down with The Verge's Nilay Patel for their fifth consecutive post-I/O developer conference interview, discussing how the company is fundamentally restructuri

A growing number of Suno users have essentially stopped listening to traditional music entirely, instead spending their time consuming AI-generated songs they've created themselves. According to posts