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(0:15) OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Video Generator After Failing to Compete
(1:15) Microsoft Takes Over 900 Megawatt Texas Data Center After Oracle and OpenAI Exit
(2:02) Former Food Startup Founders Launch AI Law Firm Targeting UK Property Transactions
(3:12) Kandou AI Raises $225 Million to Extend Copper's Life in AI Data Centers Against Optical Shift
(4:20) Game Studio Fires Translator to Replace Translation Work With AI
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(0:15) Meta Funds Seven New Gas Plants to Power Louisiana AI Data Center
(1:09) Oracle Credit Default Risk Hits All-Time High as AI Spending Spooks Debt Markets
(2:02) Ford Uses AI Agents to Win Back Dealerships With Automated Performance Analysis
(3:00) Conntour Raises $7M to Build AI Search for Security Camera Footage
(4:00) Melania Trump Showcases Humanoid Robot at White House AI Education Summit
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(0:15) Google Unveils TurboQuant Algorithm That Shrinks AI Memory Requirements by 6x
(1:11) Arm Will Sell Its Own AI Chips for the First Time With Meta as Launch Customer
(2:03) Mexico Builds National Supercomputer for Climate Forecasting and Early Warning Systems
(2:57) Doss Raises $55M to Build AI Inventory Management That Partners With Modern ERPs
(3:54) Spotify Launches Manual Approval System to Block AI Clones on Artist Pages
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(0:15) Gap Becomes First Major Fashion Retailer to Enable Direct Checkout Inside Google Gemini
(1:29) Alibaba Launches Custom Chip for AI Inference and Agentic Workloads
(2:27) Norway's Wealth Fund Saves Billions With AI but Commits to Zero Job Cuts
(3:31) Norwegian Startup Raises $40M to Challenge ASML With Atomic Chip Lithography
(4:39) Meta's Manus Launches Desktop App That Puts AI Agents Directly on Users' Computers
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(0:15) Nvidia and Emerald AI Build Flexible Data Centers That Stabilize Power Grids
(1:15) JPMorgan Launches Credit Default Swap Basket for Five Major AI Infrastructure Companies
(2:09) Waymo Reports 92 Percent Fewer Serious Injury Crashes Than Human Drivers After 170 Million Miles
(3:10) Littlebird Raises $11M for Screen Reading AI That Captures Context as Text
(4:07) Reddit Explores ID Verification to Combat AI Bot Flood
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(0:15) OpenAI Scales Back Infrastructure Spending Plans Ahead of Potential IPO
(1:25) Amazon Opens Its Trainium Chip Lab as OpenAI, Anthropic and Apple Become Major Customers
(2:26) HSBC Plans Sweeping Job Cuts as AI Replaces Middle and Back Office Roles
(3:24) Cursor Confirms Its New Coding Model Started With Chinese AI Company's Open Source Foundation
(4:32) Viral Fly Brain Upload Claims Fall Apart Under Scrutiny
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(0:15) FedEx Rolls Out AI Training to 440,000 Workers Worldwide
(1:31) Pentagon Elevates Palantir's Maven AI to Permanent Program Status
(2:35) World Bank Shifts Lending Strategy to Focus on AI-Resistant Job Sectors
(3:35) Dutch Agtech Startup BBLeap Raises €5M to Scale Precision Spraying System That Cuts Chemical Use by Up to 99%
(4:49) Hachette Cancels Horror Novel After Readers Flag AI Generated Text
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(0:15) OpenAI Builds Unified Desktop App for Chat, Code and Browsing
(0:58) xAI Deploys Engineers On-Site to Win Enterprise Customers From OpenAI
(1:49) DoorDash Pays Couriers to Generate Training Data for AI and Robotics Models
(2:36) Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Leads Two Billion Dollar Round for AI Livestock Collar Maker Halter
(3:28) Val Kilmer AI Likeness Will Star in Posthumous Film Role
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(0:15) OpenAI Acquires Developer Tooling Startup Astral to Strengthen Codex
(1:06) Jeff Bezos Seeks $100 Billion Fund to Automate Manufacturing With AI
(1:54) Parallel Raises $20M to Automate Hospital Billing With AI Agents Across Europe
(2:43) Oasis Security Raises $120 Million to Manage AI Agent Access Controls
(3:30) Fitbit's AI Coach Will Read Your Medical Records to Personalize Health Advice
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(0:15) IBM Closes $11 Billion Confluent Acquisition to Power AI Agent Data Access
(1:25) Alibaba Forms New AI Division Under CEO to Compete Globally
(2:23) Gecko Robotics Wins $71 Million Navy Contract to Accelerate Ship Repairs With AI and Robotics
(3:28) Tracebit Raises $20M Series A to Scale Cloud Deception Platform Across Enterprise Customers
(4:31) Alibaba Deploys AI to Detect Fatty Liver Disease Before Symptoms Appear
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(0:15) Nvidia Projects One Trillion Dollars in Chip Orders Through 2027
(1:17) Senator Warren Challenges Pentagon's Decision to Grant xAI Classified Network Access
(2:25) Nvidia Signs Hyundai, BYD, Nissan and Geely to Self-Driving Platform
(3:33) Chip Cooling Startup Frore Reaches Unicorn Status at $1.64 Billion Valuation
(4:39) AI Design Tools Boost Human Creativity When They Show Bad Ideas Alongside Good Ones
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(0:15) Humanoid Robot Begins Factory Shift at South Carolina Auto Parts Plant
(1:11) Moonshot AI Pursues Funding at $18 Billion Valuation After Tripling Value in Three Months
(2:03) Cedars-Sinai Releases AI Model That Reads Echocardiograms and Generates Clinical Reports
(3:01) Travis Kalanick Emerges From Stealth With Industrial Robotics Platform Atoms
(4:01) Cortical Labs Opens First Data Centers Powered by Human Brain Cells
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(0:15) Google Maps Adds Gemini Powered Conversational Search and Photorealistic 3D Navigation
(1:29) US Army Awards Anduril a 10-Year Contract Worth Up to $20 Billion
(2:40) Microsoft Launches Copilot Health to Compete With OpenAI and Anthropic in Consumer Medical AI
(3:51) Nyne Raises $5.3 Million to Help AI Agents Understand Users Across Their Digital Footprints
(5:19) Nosh Robotics Launches Autonomous Cooking Robot for $1,500
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(0:15) ByteDance Secures Thousands of Nvidia's Most Advanced AI Chips Outside China
(1:11) Amazon Web Services Will Pair Cerebras Chips With Its Own Trainium Processors for Faster AI Inference
(2:13) FedEx Plans AI Agents in Half Its Core Operations by 2028
(3:18) Sales Automation Startup Rox Reaches Unicorn Status at $1.2 Billion Valuation
(4:23) MIT Researchers Build AI Model That Predicts Heart Failure Decline Up to a Year in Advance
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(0:15) Meta Builds Custom AI Chips to Reduce Dependence on Nvidia
(1:06) China Races Ahead in Agentic AI Adoption as OpenClaw Spreads Through Enterprises
(2:00) CVS and Google Cloud Launch AI Health Platform That Aggregates Patient Data Across Providers
(2:57) Gumloop Raises $50M From Benchmark to Let Non-Technical Workers Build AI Agents
(3:55) Google Uses Gemini to Mine News Archives and Forecast Flash Floods in 150 Countries
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(0:15) Nvidia Invests $2 Billion in Nebius to Build AI Data Centers
(1:04) Atlassian Cuts 1,600 Jobs to Fund AI Investments as Stock Drops 50 Percent
(1:54) Amazon Wins Injunction Blocking Perplexity's AI Shopping Agent From Scraping Its Site
(2:53) Sandbar Raises $23 Million for AI Note-Taking Ring Shipping This Summer
(3:56) Bumble Launches AI Matchmaker That Skips Swiping and Matches on Values
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(0:15) General Catalyst Seeks $10 Billion Across Multiple Investment Vehicles
(1:11) Swedish Legal AI Startup Legora Reaches $5 Billion Valuation on $550 Million Raise
(2:11) Ford Launches AI Chatbot to Help Commercial Fleet Managers Cut Costs and Track Vehicles
(3:18) Robotics Startup Rhoda Raises $450 Million to Train AI Models on Internet Videos
(4:31) AI Agents Can Unmask Anonymous Online Accounts With 68 Percent Accuracy
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(0:15) OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo to Build Security Into Its Agent Platform
(1:07) Microsoft Bundles Copilot AI With Office Apps at $99 Per Month
(2:00) CH Robinson Credits AI With Improving Financial Performance Amid Supply Chain Disruption
(2:52) Lyzr Raises $14.5 Million at $250 Million Valuation for Enterprise AI Agent Infrastructure
(3:43) AI System Projects Custom Makeup Directly Onto Users' Faces Based on Spoken Descriptions
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(0:15) Memory Chip Shortage Driven by AI Data Centers Will Raise Prices for Consumer Electronics
(1:11) China Plans AI-Driven Job Matching for 12.7 Million University Graduates
(2:08) Better Launches ChatGPT Mortgage App That Cuts Underwriting From 21 Days to 47 Seconds
(3:09) Korean Startup Rebellions Takes Aim at Nvidia and AMD in AI Chip Market
(4:07) Half of US States Now Require AI-Powered Age Verification That Tracks Adult Users
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(0:15) Google Ships Command Line Tool to Make Workspace Apps Agent Ready
(1:21) Anthropic Launches Marketplace for Third Party AI Applications
(2:17) Recruiters Follow Biased AI Hiring Recommendations 90% of the Time
(3:23) Spanish Tax Platform TaxDown Raises €4M in Debt After Doubling Revenue and Reaching Profitability
(4:30) AI System Outperforms Doctors in Diagnosing Rare Diseases
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