aiupdates.online https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html ChatGPT Dominates Congressional AI Spending, Far Outpacing Anthropic’s Claude OpenAI’s First Influencer Brand Trip Sparks Backlash Over AI Industry Optics Palantir CEO Alex Karp Warns Enterprises Against Trusting AI Frontier Labs Curant.ai Secures $3.1M Seed Round Led by Diagram to Power the Next Generation of AI for Insurance Harmony Announces $34M in Funding to Reinvent Employee Experience Powered by AI HappyRobot Raises $150M in Series C Funding to Expand AI-Agent Platform for Logistics & Supply Chains Computer-Use AI Startup Prentis in Talks to Raise $100M at $1B Valuation Apple’s AI Push Deepens as Siri Overhaul Ships and Trade Secrets Fight With OpenAI Escalates Snapchat Stops Rewarding Fully AI-Generated Videos on Spotlight to Prioritize Human Content AI giants head to the White House to discuss safety AI Weekly Issue #518: The White House finished its AI safety framework. It’s secret. World Foundation Raises $52.5M to Expand Its World ID Infrastructure as AI Transforms the Internet Reddit Beats Q2 Expectations But Stock Slides on AI-Driven Search Traffic Concerns OpenAI Finds More Rogue Agents as Altman Draws Backlash Over ChatGPT Family Podcast Pitch SpaceX to Phase Out Unpermitted Turbines at xAI Data Centers by 2027, Building Permanent Gas Plant LinkedIn Rolls Out “AI Slop” Reporting Button as Platform Cracks Down on Low-Quality AI Content Google Uses AI to Patch Record Chrome Vulnerabilities, Pulls Earth Image Feature Over Misinformation Concerns Private Social App Yope Secures $12.3M to Build AI-Native Alternative to Algorithm-Driven Platforms AegisAI Announces $36M Series A to Fight AI-Powered Email Attacks With AI Agents Cyera to Acquire Oasis Security for $1B to Bolster AI Agent Security OpenAI’s ‘Astra’ solves 10 long-standing math problems EU AI Act Article 50 transparency rules enter force Why biological data matters more in AI drug discovery Procore to Acquire DroneDeploy for $845M to Add Robots, Drones to Construction Software Platform SeoulTech Researchers Develop AI-Designed Footpads that Cut Quadruped Robot Energy Use EU Begins Enforcing AI Act as Transparency Rules Take Effect MIT Method Helps Robots Think Ahead and Move Faster Unitree Warns US Robot Restrictions Could Limit Growth Ahead of Shanghai IPO Anthropic Discloses Claude Security Breaches as Judge Casts Doubt on Pentagon’s “Supply-Chain Risk” Ban The Future of AI Token Economics British AI Cloud Provider Nscale to Acquire Anyscale for $1.65B  Okta to Acquire AI Identity Security Startup Permiso Security for Nearly $200M  Experts Say Traditional Defenses, Not New AI Paradigm, Could Have Stopped OpenAI Agent’s Hack on Hugging Face EU Launches Tender for Up to Seven AI Gigafactories to Boost Sovereign AI Infrastructure Cybersecurity Startup Glow Emerges From Stealth as a Unicorn With $180M Series A Passionfroot Raises $15M Series A to Expand B2B Creator Marketplace as AI Reshapes Marketing Arrakis Comes out of Stealth With $38M to Help Industrial Enterprises Compete in the AI Era OpenAI’s models cut their own costs OpenAI aligns safety practices with EU AI Act’s GPAI Code American Rheinmetall Awarded US Army Contract for Autonomous Supply Ground Vehicles ChatFeatured Raises $2M to Build an Autonomous AI Search Agent for Marketing Teams 20 Germany-Based AI Scale-Ups You Need to Know in 2026 South Korean Robotic Hand Company Tesollo Starts IPO Process Google Introduces Gemini Robotics 2 with ‘Whole Body Intelligence’ Zuckerberg Outlines Meta’s AI Ambitions Spanning Enterprise, Personal Agents, and App Development Microsoft Reports Strong AI Investment Gains, Pushes Multi-Model Strategy for Enterprise Customers Natural Secures $30M Series A to Build Payments Infrastructure for AI Agents Alocity Announces Series A Funding, Fueled by Growing Demand for AI Operating Experiences in Physical Spaces Lilian Weng Departs Thinking Machines, Rejoins OpenAI to Lead AI Research Team OpenAI’s escaped AI claims another victim