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Apple Bets on AI Overhaul at WWDC 2026 as Tim Cook Prepares to Hand Over the Reins
Apple used its annual WWDC 2026 developer conference at Apple Park to mount an aggressive response to sustained criticism over its AI capabilities, unveiling a sweeping overhaul of Siri and its broader Apple Intelligence platform powered in part by Google’s Gemini family of models. The upgraded Siri is positioned as more capable, more conversational, and…
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Opal Security Secures $23M and Expands Leadership Team to Unify Identity Governance Across Human, Non-Human, and Agentic AI
Insider Brief Opal Security has raised $23 million in new funding led by Greylock and Battery Ventures, with participation from Cambium Capital, bringing its total to $59 million, alongside five senior leadership hires including Sameer Mehta as Chief Product Officer from Veza. The company’s AI-native access governance platform manages identity security across human, service, and…
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Anthropic hands the public Mythos-class AI
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Frontier releases usually trigger a week of benchmark arguments. Anthropic’s new model just launched into a class of its own. After months of drama over a Mythos too powerful for the public, Fable arrives as the compromise — with scores…
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Siri AI arrives with Google inside, and much of the world is locked out
“We’ve all had that moment where you search for something you know is there, but it just won’t show up.” Apple’s Stacey Ford, vice president of OS Program Management, was talking about Spotlight at WWDC 2026, but she could have been describing the company’s AI ambitions. On Monday at Apple Park, the thing that wouldn’t…
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McDonald’s tests Google-backed AI drive-thru ordering system
McDonald’s is testing a new AI system that can take drive-thru orders and support restaurant operations. The system, called ArchIQ and nicknamed “Archy,” was introduced during the company’s Worldwide convention, according to Restaurant Business. It is being tested at five McDonald’s locations in the United States, though the company has not named the restaurants involved.…
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White House AI Adviser Sriram Krishnan to Leave Trump Administration at End of June
Sriram Krishnan, senior policy adviser for artificial intelligence at the White House, is departing the Trump administration at the end of June after 18 months shaping US AI policy from inside the executive branch. Krishnan, a former product leader at Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, and Snap, and most recently a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, was among…
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Google Signs $920M Monthly Compute Deal with SpaceX Ahead of Historic IPO
Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to approximately 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and related infrastructure, according to a regulatory filing. The deal mirrors the $1.25 billion monthly agreement SpaceX struck with Anthropic in May, though Google’s arrangement covers roughly half the compute capacity. Google…
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Standard Bots Raises $200M in Series C Funding at $1B Valuation to Scale American-Made, AI-Native Industrial Robots
Insider Brief Standard Bots has raised $200 million in a Series C round led by RoboStrategy, valuing the U.S. industrial robotics company at $1 billion. The company said the funding will support expansion of its manufacturing operations and deployment of its AI-powered robots as manufacturers increasingly turn to automation to improve competitiveness. Standard Bots develops…
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Trump Explores Government AI Equity Stakes as OpenAI Plans ChatGPT Super App Ahead of IPO
President Donald Trump has confirmed he is in discussions with AI companies about arrangements that would give the American public a financial stake in the industry’s growth. While Trump did not name specific companies, CNBC reported that the administration has been in talks with OpenAI about a potential government equity stake, some of which could…
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Anthropic President Daniela Amodei Defends IPO Push as Revenue Hits $47B Annualised Run Rate
Anthropic co-founder and President Daniela Amodei has publicly explained the rationale behind the company’s confidential IPO filing, telling the Bloomberg Tech conference that access to public capital markets is essential for companies competing at the AI frontier. She described the upfront cost of training and serving large models as enormous, and said public markets are…
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