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Brett Adcock’s AI hardware startup Hark raises $700m at $6bn valuation

Two months out of stealth, the founder of Figure and Archer has a chip-and-model stack and a chip-and-model-stack-sized cheque to match. Hark, the AI hardware company that Brett Adcock began funding out of his own pocket late last year, has raised more than $700m in a Series A that values it at $6bn, according to Bloomberg. […]

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Grok’s federal stall is undercutting SpaceX’s IPO growth story

Downloads have fallen from 20m in January to 8.3m in April, paid conversion is a fifth of ChatGPT’s, the $0.42-per-agency GSA deal is now stalled, and SpaceX has rented out the Memphis Colossus 1 cluster to Anthropic for $1.25bn a month. SpaceX’s S-1 filed on Tuesday rests on an AI-revenue line Grok is no longer […]

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AMD commits more than $10bn to Taiwan’s AI ecosystem with ASE, SPIL and Helios as the visible deliverables

Lisa Su’s Taiwan announcement covers advanced silicon, packaging and manufacturing partnerships for the company’s rack-scale Helios platform, set for deployment in the second half of 2026. AMD announced on Wednesday more than $10bn of investments across Taiwan’s semiconductor ecosystem to expand strategic partnerships and scale advanced packaging manufacturing for next-generation AI infrastructure. The commitment covers a multi-year […]

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Canva launches inside Google Gemini, completing its push to be the design layer for every major AI assistant

Canva has spent the past year quietly embedding itself into every major AI assistant. First came Claude, then ChatGPT, then Microsoft Copilot. Now Google Gemini gets the same treatment, and the strategy is complete. The company launched its Connected App for Google Gemini at Google I/O, giving Gemini users the ability to generate, edit, and search […]

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Airbnb is adding hotels, car rentals, and luggage storage as it evolves from a home-sharing app into a full travel platform

  Airbnb started as a way to book someone else’s spare room. It is now trying to become the app you never leave during a trip. The company’s summer 2026 release adds boutique hotels, car rentals, luggage storage, and thousands of new experiences to the platform. The hotel push is the most significant shift. Airbnb […]

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LinkedIn is finally cracking down on AI slop, and the feed might actually become readable again

If your LinkedIn feed has felt like it was written by one person with 10 million accounts, you are not imagining things. The platform has become a petri dish for AI-generated posts that say nothing while sounding vaguely inspirational. Now LinkedIn says it is doing something about it. The company announced changes that will target […]

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Figma builds its own AI assistant that can design alongside you on the canvas

Summary: Figma is launching its own AI agent that operates directly on the collaborative design canvas, letting users generate, edit, and iterate on designs through natural language prompts. The move follows partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI and the $200 million Weavy acquisition.   For months, Figma has been opening its canvas to other people’s AI. […]

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French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites

A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands. A consortium of French companies led by Iliad’s cloud subsidiary Scaleway has bid roughly $10bn to build one of the European Union’s […]

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ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok are not ready to brief American voters

A new generation of voters will ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok how to vote, where the polling station is, and who is telling the truth. The published research is consistent: the models cannot reliably answer those questions. The election will arrive anyway. In the spring of 2024, a Tow Center researcher at Columbia Journalism […]

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OpenAI plants its first overseas applied-AI lab in Singapore, with a $235M commitment

The company will scale to about 200 staff in the city-state and align the lab’s work to Singapore’s public-sector, finance, healthcare, and digital-infrastructure priorities. OpenAI said on Wednesday it will open its first applied-AI lab outside the United States in Singapore, with a S$300m (about $235m) commitment alongside a staffing ramp to roughly 200 people […]

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