canadian pension fund invests $741m in indian data centers
canada pension plan investment board commits up to ₹70 billion to ctrls for ai and cloud infrastructure expansion in india.
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pramaana labs raises $27m to verify ai with formal methods
pramaana labs secures seed funding to apply formal verification to ai, targeting high-stakes fields like law and tax.
pinterest tests ai shopping app ask pinterest
pinterest launches an experimental conversational shopping app to explore ai-driven product discovery and personalized recommendations.
anthropic sales rise despite trump admin feud
anthropic's business spending share surpassed openai for the first time in may, even as the white house ordered it to restrict access to its latest models.
ai planning tool aims to halve uk home application times
google deepmind and uk government prototype uses gemini to speed up householder planning decisions by 50%.
android 17 adds ai tools and multitasking
google's android 17 update brings new ai features like gemini omni video editing and lyria 3 music generation, plus a bubble bar for multitasking.
spacex valuation briefly tops amazon at $2.6t
spacex's stock surged after announcing a $60 billion acquisition of ai coding firm cursor, briefly making it more valuable than amazon.
plaud hits $100m arr from ai notetaker subscriptions
plaud's software business reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue after selling over 2 million ai-powered notetaker devices.
us consumers turned off by ai in brand messaging
a survey finds 60% of us consumers distrust brands using ai in messaging, and 86% want to check original sources, signaling a need for transparency.
doj backs xai's unpermitted gas turbines for ai military use
the justice department argues that shutting down xai's unpermitted gas turbines would harm national security because grok supports military operations.
spacex buys cursor for $60b in stock after ipo
spacex agrees to acquire ai coding startup cursor in a $60 billion stock deal, days after its historic ipo, to boost its ai division.
malaysia's respond.io raises $62.5m for ai messaging
malaysian startup respond.io secures series b funding to expand its ai agent-powered customer messaging platform into north america and europe.
stanford students protest google ceo over military ai ties
about 200 stanford graduates walked out and booed sundar pichai during his commencement speech, protesting google's cloud and ai contracts with israel's military and u.s. immigration enforcement.
us anthropic ban was never about ai jailbreak
the us government forced anthropic to pull its latest ai models offline using an export control directive, raising concerns about political interference in ai.
meta adds ai search to facebook using public posts
meta launches ai mode on facebook to answer questions by summarizing public posts, groups, and reels, alongside new editing tools and photo presets.
salesforce buys fin for $3.6b to boost ai agents
salesforce acquires ai customer service platform fin for $3.6 billion to enhance its agentforce platform with advanced agent technology.
sarvam becomes india's newest ai unicorn with $234m round
bengaluru-based sarvam raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by hcltech, to build sovereign ai models and enterprise applications for indian languages and sectors.
cybersecurity experts protest us ban on anthropic models
dozens of cybersecurity veterans signed an open letter urging the us government to lift export controls on anthropic's fable and mythos models, arguing the ban harms defenders.