China's NDRC ordered Meta to reverse its $2B Manus acquisition and barred the startup's founders from leaving China, ending the "Singapore washing" strategy that let Chinese AI firms dodge Beijing oversight.

An AI agent named Luna, powered by Claude Sonnet 4.6, opened and manages a real San Francisco boutique - but its record includes a gender pay gap, employee surveillance, and false claims to journalists.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent an apology to Tumbler Ridge two months after eight people were killed - now Canada is weighing mandatory reporting laws for AI companies.

Cohere acquires Germany's Aleph Alpha at a $20B combined valuation, backed by a €500M Schwarz Group commitment, to build a transatlantic challenger for sovereign enterprise AI.

Tim Cook becomes executive chairman and John Ternus, the hardware engineer behind Apple Silicon, takes the CEO role on September 1 - a clear bet that chips beat software in the AI race.

Querio takes a different approach to data analysis: instead of dumping your schema into a prompt, it asks you to define what your data means. Alex and Maya test it on real databases and break down what works, what the Context Layer actually does, and who should care about the $680/month price tag.

Meta signs a multi-year AWS deal to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores, betting that agentic AI workloads need CPUs more than GPUs.

Vast Data closes a $1B Series F at $30B valuation - triple its 2023 price - with NVIDIA, Drive Capital, and Access Industries backing its push to own the data layer for AI infrastructure.

Project Prometheus has closed a $10 billion funding round at a $38 billion valuation, with BlackRock and JPMorgan backing Bezos's bet on physical AI for industry.

Google's Virgo Network connects 134K TPU chips at 47 petabits per second using a flat two-layer topology that removes the bandwidth degradation cluster operators have engineered around for years.