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Tech Firms Are Filming Homes to Train Cleaning Robots
A startup called Shift is offering free apartment cleaning in New York in exchange for filming the work, part of a fast-moving race by robotics companies to collect real-world video of household chores, the raw material needed to teach machines to do the same jobs.
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Glean Triples Revenue to $300M Selling AI Cost Cuts
Glean, an AI search tool that connects to a company's internal software to help employees find information, has tripled its revenue to $300 million in 15 months, largely by pitching itself as a way to reduce the runaway AI bills that are worrying finance teams.
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SoftBank to Build €75B of AI Data Centers in France
SoftBank announced plans to spend up to €75 billion building AI data centers in northern France, a deal sealed through personal diplomacy with President Macron, and one that reveals why France has quietly become Europe's most attractive location for this kind of infrastructure.
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Remote Grows Revenue 50% Per Employee With No New Hires
Global payroll company Remote hit $300 million in annual recurring revenue while keeping its headcount flat, crediting widespread AI adoption across every department, a rare real-world example of AI directly improving business output rather than just cutting costs.
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Microsoft in Talks to Supply Its Own Chips to Anthropic
Microsoft is negotiating to give Anthropic access to its Maia 200 chips, a move that would mark the first real-world test of Microsoft's own AI hardware and deepen a relationship that already involves a $5 billion investment and a $30 billion cloud spending commitment.
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2026 Graduates Are Booing AI Job Promises
When graduates at two US universities booed commencement speakers who praised AI, they were not confused about technology: they were reacting to a labour market where entry-level white-collar jobs are disappearing faster than any previous generation could track in real time.
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OpenAI Opens First Lab Outside the US in Singapore
OpenAI is setting up its first overseas lab in Singapore with a $234 million commitment, part of a wave of big-tech investment in the city-state that is quietly turning it into the world's most contested AI deployment hub, with real consequences for businesses across the Asia-Pacific region.
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OpenAI Is Spending Big to Shape AI Rules in Its Favor
OpenAI has hired a seasoned political crisis manager and is funding super PACs, lobbying state governments, and backing liability shield laws, all while public trust in AI keeps falling, a gap that matters for any business operator relying on AI tools or facing employees and customers skeptical of the technology.
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Inside PowerPoint
OpenAI has released a ChatGPT add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint, letting users on all plan levels build and edit slides using plain instructions, joining Anthropic's Claude in a crowded race to embed AI inside the world's most-used presentation software.
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Alibaba Launches Qwen3.7-Max, Its New AI Agent Model
Alibaba officially launched Qwen3.7-Max at its Cloud Summit on May 20, a text-only AI model built to run long, multi-step tasks autonomously, positioning it as a serious alternative to models from OpenAI and Anthropic for businesses looking at AI agents.
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Amazon Nova Act Now Clears HIPAA Rules for Healthcare Use
Amazon's browser-operating AI agent, Nova Act, now meets US healthcare privacy rules, meaning hospitals, insurers, and clinics can use it to automate tasks like prior authorizations and claims processing that involve real patient data.
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Cohere Launches Open-Source AI Model Built for Private Deployment
Cohere has released Command A+, a powerful AI model available free under an open-source license that any company can download and run inside their own servers, directly targeting enterprises in regulated industries that want AI without sending their data to an outside cloud.
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Spotify Lets Fans Remix Real Songs With AI
Spotify has signed a licensing deal with Universal Music Group to let paying subscribers use AI to create covers and remixes of real artists' songs, with those artists receiving a share of the revenue, marking the first time a major streaming platform has built fan-made AI music creation directly into its service on a legal, consent-based footing.
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Google Turns Search Into an AI Agent That Works Without You
Google just made its biggest change to search in 25 years, Meta cut 8,000 jobs while drafting 7,000 more into AI roles, and Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI, all in the same week, signaling that the AI shift from hype to hard operational reality is now fully underway.
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AWS Builds AI Agent to Route Radiology Scans to the Right Doctor
AWS and Radiology Partners have published a blueprint for replacing static radiology worklist systems with a network of AI agents that considers doctor specialization, fatigue, and case urgency in real time, a problem that currently causes near-18-minute delays per urgent scan and costs hospital networks up to $4.2 million annually.
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Trump Pauses Order That Would Review AI Before Release
The White House pulled back an executive order that would have given the government advance access to powerful AI models before launch, a delay that leaves businesses with no official process for knowing whether the AI tools they depend on have been checked for security risks.
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Waymo Pauses Two Cities After Cars Drive Into Floods
Waymo has suspended service in Atlanta and San Antonio after its self-driving taxis drove into flooded roads on multiple occasions, revealing a gap in its software that it has not yet fully fixed, even as the company is mid-way through its biggest-ever expansion.
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OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs Face a Pricing Problem
Both companies are preparing to go public at valuations near or above $800 billion, but the case for paying a premium for their AI is eroding fast as cheaper Chinese and open-source alternatives close the capability gap.
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Uber Launches AV Labs to Sell Driving Data to Robotaxi Firms
Uber has put sensor-equipped cars back on public roads for the first time since its fatal 2018 crash, not to carry passengers but to collect and sell driving data to the 25 autonomous vehicle companies it now partners with.
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NVIDIA's Next AI Hardware Wins Awards at COMPUTEX
NVIDIA picked up multiple top awards at Asia's largest tech trade show for three products that together cover the full range of where AI compute is heading: massive data center racks, factory and hospital robots, and self-driving vehicles.
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