The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter
Anthropic and OpenAI’s aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app
Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies…
UK government scraps plans for digital ID cards after millions of Brits opposed
The new U.K. government scrapped a digital ID program that millions of British people opposed, in place of a tax cut to tackle the cost of living.
Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated
Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June
Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.
The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who’s actually reading any of it?
Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors’ models.
Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M
Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person’s health.
Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.