Google is building a four-partner chip supply chain to challenge Nvidia in AI inference

Summary: Google is building the AI industry’s most diversified custom chip supply chain, with four design partners (Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell, Intel) and a roadmap stretching from the Ironwood TPU [...]

Musk fails to appear before Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of child sexual images

Summary: Elon Musk failed to appear for a voluntary interview with Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of an estimated 23,000 sexualised images of children and 3 million sexualised ima [...]

OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first

Summary: OpenAI’s Codex for Mac has added Chronicle, a research preview feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI’s servers for processing, and stores text summaries as [...]

Semrush launches a framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search as the old SEO playbook breaks down

Summary: Semrush launched a Brand Visibility Framework at Adobe Summit introducing “Agentic Search Optimisation” as a new discipline for measuring brand presence across AI-generated answers, tradi [...]

Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after nearly 15 years, with hardware chief John Ternus taking over

Summary: Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO on 1 September after nearly 15 years, during which Apple’s market capitalisation grew from $348 billion to roughly $4 trillion and annual revenue quad [...]

WhatsApp is testing a paid subscription at EUR 2.49 per month as Meta rolls out premium tiers across its apps

Summary: WhatsApp has begun testing a paid consumer subscription called WhatsApp Plus at approximately EUR 2.49 per month, offering cosmetic upgrades including 18 chat themes, custom icons, exclusive [...]

VisioLab raises $11M to scale its AI-powered iPad checkout to stadiums, canteens, and campuses worldwide

The Osnabrück startup’s camera-based self-checkout, which identifies food and drinks without barcodes in under 10 seconds, is already running at 43 points of sale inside the Orlando Magic’s NBA a [...]

Jeff Bezos’ physical AI lab is close to raising $10 billion at a $38 billion valuation

Project Prometheus, launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in initial funding, is developing AI systems that understand the physical world, targeting engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, roboti [...]

Clarifai says it deleted 3 million OkCupid user photos and the facial-recognition models trained on them

The AI company received the photos from OkCupid in 2014 without users’ knowledge, in a data transfer that breached OkCupid’s own privacy policy. The FTC’s late March settlement with OkCupid and [...]