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Uber founder Travis Kalanick raises $1.7bn for new start-up

Andreessen Horowitz and the ride-hailing group join funding round

OpenAI hacking incident exposes mounting risks in AI arms race

Cristina Criddle in San Francisco and Tom Wilson in London

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.

Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic's Fable

The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.

Google's Gemini app nips at ChatGPT's heels as it nears 1 billion users

Google has been closing the gap with ChatGPT, as its Gemini app hits 950 million monthly users.

Microsoft brings original Xbox backward compatibility to Windows PCs

First four compatible titles can be run with an 11-year-old graphics card.

Google says Gemini now has 950 million monthly users.

It’s a sizeable jump from the 750 million Gemini users Google reported in February. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, shared the stat as part of its Q2 2026 earnings report (pdf), which also revealed a 24 percent increase in revenue to $119.8 billion.

ServiceNow pushes back on AI threats, reporting a 25% jump in subscription revenue

ServiceNow reports Q2 results, raises guidance, and says its AI business topped $1 billion in annual contract value.

CMO Jill Kramer says AI can spark human creativity and insight

Mastercard's Jill Kramer says marketers need every tool at their disposal, and that AI can spark human creativity

Trump administration announces hundreds of “Genesis Mission” AI science projects.

The push to solve issues, including the soaring energy demands of AI data centers, using AI, revealed “more than $5 billion in Federal commitments” across 278 awards and 342 institutions in its list of awards.

Travis Kalanick's robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.

OpenAI's latest proposal shows it's very aware that data centers are unpopular

OpenAI's latest data center proposal, "Project Camellia," included pledges regarding electricity bills, water use, and Codex credits for students.