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DeepL Buys Mixhalo to Add Live Event Translation
DeepL, a German translation company preparing for a US stock listing, has acquired Mixhalo, a San Francisco startup that streams real-time audio and AI interpretation directly to attendees' phones at conferences and sports events, giving DeepL a visible, physical product in a multi-billion-dollar market it previously could not reach.
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AI Is Now Building Itself. No One Is in Charge.
Anthropic has disclosed that its AI already writes most of its own code and can autonomously find security holes across every major computer system in the world, raising a question every business operator should take seriously: who decides where this stops?
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Coherent Breaks Ground on New Texas Optical Chip Plant
Coherent has started construction on an expanded factory in Sherman, Texas, backed by $50 million in federal grants and a $2 billion investment from NVIDIA, to build the lasers that connect AI systems together at a moment when China's export controls have made this type of component a global supply chain chokepoint.
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MIT Builds Industry Network to Bring AI Into Factories
MIT's Initiative for New Manufacturing is one year old and has quietly grown into a serious industry consortium, pairing research labs with companies like Siemens, GE Vernova, and Sanofi to solve the problems keeping AI tools off real factory floors.
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Google Builds AI Tool to Speed Up UK Home Planning
Google DeepMind and the UK government are testing an AI planning tool in three councils that aims to cut the time officers spend processing home extension and loft conversion applications in half, a move that matters because a severe shortage of planning staff is one of the clearest obstacles to the government's target of 1.5 million new homes by 2029.
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Pentagon Uses AI to Write Reports for Congress
The US military is now using AI tools to draft official reports it is legally required to send to Congress, cutting preparation time from 200 hours to five, which raises real questions about accuracy and oversight that matter well beyond defence.
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OpenAI Lost $38.5 Billion in 2025, Files for IPO
Leaked audited financials show OpenAI spent $34 billion last year against $13 billion in revenue, with the company now filing confidentially for a stock market listing that could value it above $1 trillion.
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Google Releases Android 17 and Wear OS 7 Today
Google has launched Android 17 and Wear OS 7 simultaneously today, bringing floating app windows and smarter multitasking to phones, better battery life to smartwatches, and laying the groundwork for AI-powered smart glasses arriving this fall.
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Consumers Don't Trust Brands That Shout About AI
A new survey of 2,000 people finds that 60% of U.S. consumers are put off when brands use 'AI' as a selling point, while search data shows that fewer people are clicking through to websites at all, creating a split challenge for every business with an online presence.
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Databricks Launches App Store for Enterprise Data Teams
Databricks has opened a marketplace where enterprise customers can install third-party data and AI apps directly inside their own secure environment, removing the usual weeks-long procurement and security review process that slows down business teams.
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HPE and NVIDIA Launch Private AI Infrastructure for Agents
HPE and NVIDIA are expanding their joint on-premises AI system to support AI agents that can act autonomously inside companies, adding new hardware, security controls, and governance tools at a moment when most enterprises are deploying agents faster than they can manage them.
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Mobileye Launches Its Own Robotaxi Service in US
Mobileye, the Israeli company whose self-driving technology sits inside over 230 million cars globally, is stepping out from behind the scenes to run its own driverless taxi service in the US starting in 2027, entering a market already dominated by Waymo.
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ChatGPT Falls Below 50% Market Share for First Time
ChatGPT has dropped from dominating more than 80% of AI assistant users two years ago to below 50% today, as Google Gemini and Anthropic's Claude gain ground, and the race to turn AI users into paying customers is now as important as the race for raw numbers.
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Large Insurers Now Using AI Directly in Underwriting Decisions
A new independent benchmark of 30 major insurers finds that AI has moved from back-office automation into the core of risk decisions, with three firms already publicly reporting over $1 billion in combined AI-driven value, and the gap between leaders and laggards widening fast.
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Microsoft Copilot Had a Flaw That Stole 2FA Codes
A patched security flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot, the AI assistant used by tens of millions of enterprise workers, showed how a single email from a stranger could silently pull sensitive data including two-factor authentication codes from a user's inbox without any click or action required.
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Sakana AI Launches 8-Hour Research Agent for Enterprises
Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched its first commercial product this week, an autonomous research agent that runs for up to eight hours and produces reports of up to 100 pages with presentation slides, targeting corporate strategy, finance, and consulting teams.
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SpaceX Buys AI Coding Tool Cursor for $60 Billion
SpaceX has formally agreed to acquire Cursor, a popular AI coding assistant used by major corporations globally, for $60 billion in stock, just days after the company's record IPO, as it tries to rebuild its AI division after a year of serious setbacks.
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EU Requires AI Content Labels on All Products by August
From August 2, 2026, any business operating in the EU that uses AI to interact with customers or publish content must label that content as AI-generated, with fines up to 15 million euros or 3% of global revenue for those that do not comply.
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Databricks Launches Genie One, an AI Data Assistant for Business Teams
Databricks has launched Genie One, a plain-English data assistant that lets non-technical staff ask questions about company data directly in Slack, Microsoft Teams, or a mobile app, without needing to involve IT or data analysts.
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Databricks Launches AI Spending Controls for Enterprise Agents
Databricks used its annual Data + AI Summit this week to expand Unity AI Gateway, a product that gives organizations a single place to see, limit, and audit what their AI agents are doing and spending across multiple AI providers.
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