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Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics and added the humanoid robot Sprout to its portfolio
Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics along with the 23-kilogram humanoid Sprout — the company's second robotics deal in a month and a stronger bet on home and utility robots.
Energy Vault acquires 175 MW Texas battery storage project amid AI data center demand
Energy Vault has acquired a 175 MW battery storage project in Texas near Dallas, betting on rapid growth in power consumption from AI data centers and a shortage of firm capacity on the ERCOT grid.
Galtea raises $3.2 million for an enterprise AI agent validation platform
Galtea, a startup from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center ecosystem, has raised $3.2 million to help companies find failures, hallucinations, bias, and vulnerabilities in AI agents before deployment.
Theia Insights raises $8 million to replace outdated industry classification systems
Cambridge-based Theia Insights has closed an $8 million Series A round and is developing an AI map of the economy that classifies companies across multiple business lines instead of a single static industry label.
Meta cuts hundreds of staff in Reality Labs and sales while ramping up AI spending
Meta has begun new layoffs in Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting and sales, while nearly doubling its 2026 budget for data centers, GPU and the Llama ecosystem.
Shield AI raises $2 billion to scale Hivemind, its autonomous combat pilot
US defense company Shield AI raised $2 billion at a $12.7 billion valuation and will use part of the funds to acquire Aechelon to accelerate Hivemind's development.
Hermeus raises $350 million at a $1 billion valuation for autonomous hypersonic fighter jets
US startup Hermeus raised $350 million at a $1 billion valuation after a March flight of a large demonstrator and is accelerating development of autonomous hypersonic combat aircraft.
Chinese court rules firing employee to replace him with AI was unlawful
A court in Hangzhou decided that a company cannot fire an employee solely because AI began handling his tasks: automation is a business decision, not a lawful ground for terminating a contract.
DoorDash invested in Also as Rivian spin-off topped $1 billion valuation
DoorDash became a strategic investor in Also: the startup spun out of Rivian raised $200 million, surpassed a $1 billion valuation and is preparing small autonomous EVs for last-mile delivery.
Alphabet nearly caught up with Nvidia by market cap after Google Cloud's record quarter
After its first-quarter report, Alphabet jumped nearly 10%: Google Cloud topped $20 billion in revenue for the first time, and the market again started talking about catching Nvidia by market cap.
AliveCor brings pocket-sized Kardia 12L ECG system with AI diagnostics to Europe
U.S.-based AliveCor has received CE Mark for Kardia 12L, a portable 12-lead ECG system that uses AI to detect 35 cardiac conditions and is entering five European markets.
South Korea turns to Russian naphtha because of the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz
Iran blocked the Strait of Hormuz, and South Korea — the largest chip producer — urgently switched to Russian naphtha to avoid halting semiconductor fabs.
Pickmybrain raises $2.1M: AI clones of Rovio co-founder and former Netflix CMO
Tallinn-based Pickmybrain has raised a $2.1M pre-seed round for a platform where experts create AI clones of themselves — “digital brains” that answer client questions 24/7.
Valar Atomics raises $450 million for small nuclear reactors for AI data centers
Startup Valar Atomics has reached a $2 billion valuation and raised $450 million to build compact nuclear reactors next to AI data centers and sell them stable power.
Baidu outage: more than 100 Apollo Go robotaxis came to a halt in the middle of roads in Wuhan
In Wuhan, more than 100 Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis stopped simultaneously on roads and overpasses, showing that the main risk of autonomous fleets is not an isolated error but a mass failure.
Legora reached $100M ARR in 18 months — a record for legal AI
Swedish AI startup Legora surpassed the $100M ARR mark in just 18 months, starting from $1M — a growth rate that typically takes nearly a decade in enterprise software.
OpenAI delayed ChatGPT's adult mode, but the main risks are already visible in AI intimacy
The delayed ChatGPT adult mode is prompting a more important debate: not about access to erotic content, but about how AI interlocutors keep adult users engaged and deepen emotional dependence.
Tencent launched ClawPro — an enterprise AI agent platform built on OpenClaw
Tencent has released ClawPro into public beta — an enterprise layer on top of OpenClaw that lets companies launch AI agents in 10 minutes with quotas, monitoring, and security controls.
Medialister opened the editorial advertising market to AI agents through an MCP server
Medialister launched an MCP server so ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini can directly select editorial placements, cutting manual research and lengthy negotiations with media outlets.
Apple faced a flood of AI apps in the App Store and tightened app review
Amid the vibe coding boom, the number of new apps in the App Store rose 84% in a single quarter, review times stretched to 30 days, and Apple began more aggressively rejecting services that generate code on the fly.
Picsart launched monetization for all creators — no audience thresholds
AI platform Picsart launched the "Earn with Picsart" program for 150 million users: payouts are based on engagement, not follower count — no whitelist.
Narwhal Labs raises €22.9M and launches DeepBlue OS for regulated industries
UK-based Narwhal Labs has secured €22.9M and unveiled DeepBlue OS — a platform that automates calls and messaging in regulated sectors with a full audit trail of AI actions.
Oracle appoints Hilary Maxson CFO for its $50 billion AI data center bet
Oracle has appointed former Schneider Electric CFO Hilary Maxson as its new CFO as the company doubles investment in AI data centers and reshapes its business around cloud infrastructure.
Ayra and Casa Italia: how AI handles reservations without disrupting human service
Ayra and restaurant Casa Italia show how AI can respond to guests, manage reservations, and take routine work off the restaurant team without replacing human service on the floor.
Miro added AI agents to its online whiteboard and taught them to understand team context
Miro added Sidekicks and Flows to its board — AI agents that can see sticky notes, diagrams, and documents on the canvas and help teams turn ideas into roadmaps, briefs, and presentations.
Kia lowered its 2030 EV target, plans a pickup and Atlas deployment in the U.S.
Kia updated its 2030 plan: it cut its EV target to 1 million vehicles a year, stepped up its focus on hybrids, confirmed an electric pickup for the U.S., and set a timeline for deploying Atlas at its Georgia plants.
Amazon sued by YouTube creators over training Nova Reel on third-party videos
Three YouTube creators filed a class-action lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that the company bypassed YouTube's protections and downloaded videos without consent to train Nova Reel.
Tesla's Shanghai plant called the «golden key» to Optimus mass production
Tesla China president Wang Hao for the first time publicly linked the Shanghai Gigafactory to mass production of Optimus humanoid robots — the plant has already produced 851,000 electric vehicles in 2025.
EverCognitive head Elizabeta Gjorgievska Joshevski builds AI strategies around business goals
EverCognitive founder Elizabeta Gjorgievska Joshevski helps companies build AI strategy from business goals through readiness audits, executive consulting, and implementation planning.
Tesla gets Europe's first approval for FSD Supervised — launch begins in the Netherlands
Dutch regulator RDW approved Tesla's FSD Supervised in the Netherlands, marking Europe's first approval for a driver-assistance system of this kind under UN Regulation 171.