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Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M

The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.

Wayve: Now AI Can Power 'Every Vehicle That Moves'

British autonomous driving firm Wayve closes US$1.2bn funding led by Softbank, with support from Microsoft and NVIDIA to scale its AI driver platform

Google is ‘deeply sorry’ for push notification that included a racial slur.

The notification was related to an incident at the BAFTAs on Sunday, as Variety reports. “We’ve removed the offensive notification,” Google spokesperson Brianna Duff said in a statement to The Verge, adding that the error didn’t involve AI, but rather that push notification systems intended to “accurately characterize” content from the web “accidentally” included the slur.

Uber engineers built an AI version of their boss

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to practice their pitches.

AMD teams up with OpenAI to challenge Nvidia’s AI chip dominance

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Oura's AI Chatbot is Officially Out of Beta.

Dubbed Oura Advisor, the chatbot combines generative AI with your actual data so you can ask it about your long-term trends and patterns, as well as general guidance on health matters. This is the second feature from the company’s experimental Oura Labs program — the first being Symptom Radar.

OpenAI Has a New Chief People Officer.

Arvind KC, formerly Roblox's chief people and systems officer, has also held senior roles at Google, Palantir, and Meta, according to OpenAI. He succeeds Julia Villagra, who left in August 2025 after less than six months as chief people officer. The position has been vacant since then.

Anthropic won’t budge as Pentagon escalates AI dispute

The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to loosen AI guardrails or face potential penalties, escalating a high-stakes dispute that raises questions about government leverage, vendor dependence, and investor confidence in defense tech.

Discord is delaying its global age verification rollout

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Google adds a way to create automated workflows to Opal

Google is adding a new feature to Opal to create automated workflows

In a replay of 2019, Apple says a single desktop Mac will be manufactured in the US

Apple is still working to get favorable tariff treatment from the Trump administration.

Seedance 2.0 might be gen AI video’s next big hope, but it’s still slop

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