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Mozilla and Mistral AI are pitching Firefox Smart Window as a privacy-first, non-US alternative to browser AI, with zero data retention and a rollout starting in France and North America.
OpenAI's new ad format opens a labeled, in-app conversation with a business's own AI agent after a user clicks a ChatGPT ad, as the company's ad business already runs at a $1 billion annualized revenue rate.
Factory raised $200 million from Blackstone, Sequoia, and Khosla Ventures, betting that enterprises will pay for organization-wide AI automation of the software pipeline, not just per-developer coding assistants.
Digit 5 lifts 40% more weight and recharges 10x faster than its predecessor, with a new Nvidia-backed safety system designed to let it work safely near people — timed just before Agility's SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp. XI.
At Huawei Connect 2026, chairman David Wang accelerated the Ascend 960DT and 960PR chip timelines, landing them closer to competing Nvidia Rubin and AMD MI500 schedules as Huawei races to close the AI hardware gap.
Judge Leonie Brinkema ordered Google to open its AdX exchange to rival ad servers and accept an internal monitor for six years, rejecting the DOJ's push for a full breakup.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed permanent third-party evaluators with employee-level access inside frontier AI labs, and OpenAI matched the pledge — but critics warn the evaluators would lack formal authority to act on what they find.
King Charles III convened approximately 30 senior AI executives at Dumfries House in Scotland to draft shared principles for responsible AI development, bringing together leaders from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and OpenAI.
Circle launched its Arc blockchain mainnet today, a new public chain where USDC is the native gas token and 12 major financial institutions — including BlackRock, Visa, and Mastercard — serve as validators.
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed its cloture vote 46-43, with seven Democrats who had negotiated the bill for months voting no over Trump-related ethics provisions, effectively killing US crypto market-structure legislation for 2026.
New defaults taking effect today block AI training and agent crawlers on ad-supported pages unless they clearly declare their purpose, closing a loophole multi-purpose bots like Googlebot previously used to gather training data under cover of search indexing.
A 19-article regulation signed by Premier Li Qiang lets Chinese authorities block departures over export-control violations that could endanger technological security, with bans lasting up to three years.