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Sequoia and Nvidia back David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1B

Silver left Google DeepMind in late 2025 after more than a decade building AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaStar, and contributing to Gemini. Ineffable Intelligence was incorporated in November 2025 and has no product, no revenue, and no public roadmap.

China blocks Meta's acquisition of Manus AI

This signals the end of "Singapore washing."

Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces ‘Palestine’ in designs

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Why is Elon Musk taking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to Court?

Seeking more than US$134bn in damages, Elon Musk has accused OpenAI CEO Sam Altman of abandoning the company’s original non-profit mission

Webtoon’s animated AI avatars want to chat with you.

Hot on the heels of its new AI-powered localization tools, Webtoon is partnering with AI avatar firm Genies to launch a new chatbot feature that will allow users to “talk” with characters from comics featured on the platform.

Meta’s latest energy deal is for 24/7 orbit-to-grid solar power.

Meta announced a new deal this morning with Overview Energy, a space-based solar company with plans to demo beaming “energy wirelessly from space to a solar farm on Earth” in 2028, ahead of commercial delivery in 2030.

OpenAI and Microsoft renegotiated their deal for the second time in 6 months. See what's new.

Under its new agreement with Microsoft, OpenAI has the green light to work with other cloud providers like Amazon — with some strings attached.

What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch US software in favor of sovereign tech

Governments across Europe are looking to rely less on American tech providers.

OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps

The phone could go in mass production in 2028, an analyst says.

What GPT-Image-2 actually changed

OpenAI shipped an image model this week that plans before it draws, searches the web while it composes, and checks its own work before returning the result. GPT-Image-2 scored 1,512 on Image Arena, 242 points above the next closest model, four times the largest jump anyone had recorded.

Executive Briefing: The AI cost curve your strategy is riding just broke + 3 prompts to find your exposure

The Ternus pick is being read as continuity. Apple lifer, quiet succession, stable handoff, business as usual. That is the wrong read.

Exclusive: Adobe brings agentic AI to Firefly, with Claude next

The move comes as chatbots are increasingly able to automate tasks that once required dedicated design tools.