xAI filed a lawsuit against a user it alleges used Grok to produce sexualized images of minors, arguing that users—not the company—bear liability for AI outputs.
Agility Robotics has opened a 60,000-square-foot Fremont facility to train its humanoid robot Digit for manufacturing and logistics, supporting more than 30 customers.
Patreon says it is actively blocking AI training bots using Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control, after finding crawlers ignored robots.txt and scraped creator content.
The European Commission has issued binding DMA measures forcing Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data with competitors.
Moonshot AI’s open-source Kimi K3 reignited debate over China, regulation and model sharing after independent tests suggested frontier-level performance.
Databricks announced a new funding round led by Coatue that values the company at $188 billion as it doubles down on AI products and open models.
CFOs must shift from adoption metrics to outcomes. A four-part scorecard—useful work, cost per task, dependability, and scale—measures AI value per dollar spent.
San Francisco Attorney General David Chiu has demanded Apple and Google remove 13 apps that convert ordinary photos into explicit images, calling the tools harmful and illegal.
Lenders are financing SambaNova chips for General Compute’s inference neocloud, signaling a move toward cheaper open-model infrastructure and a loosening of Nvidia’s dominance.
Vertu’s Alphafold pairs luxury materials with Hermes Agent, an AI assistant aimed at executives. Hardware borrows from ZTE; AI workflows are promising but inconsistent.
Nonprofit Current AI is building open, public AI infrastructure — offline multilingual devices, community-controlled datasets and an open chatbot to serve underserved cultures.
Jensen Huang secured deals across Japan’s tech ecosystem — from a sovereign AI program to robotics partnerships and chip supply — centering Nvidia in the country’s physical‑AI strategy.
