ScaleOps secured $130 million to help companies tackle GPU shortages and soaring AI cloud costs by autonomously optimizing Kubernetes environments in real time.

South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions secured $400 million in pre-IPO funding to expand its operations in the US and challenge Nvidia's dominance.

Microsoft unveiled Copilot Cowork, a new research assistant feature that allows users to simultaneously utilize models from OpenAI and Anthropic for complex tasks.

Meta Platforms saw a historic 19% drop in its stock this month, erasing $310 billion in value following a major legal ruling and growing investor fears over AI risks.

French AI startup Mistral has raised $830 million in debt financing to build a new Nvidia-powered data center near Paris, set to open in Q2 2026.

AI infrastructure firm Nebius Group announced a massive $10 billion investment to build a 310-megawatt AI data center in Finland to meet European compute demand.

Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order requiring safety and privacy guardrails for AI companies contracting with California, defying federal pushback.

Capital Economics chief markets economist John Higgins argues the AI stock bubble has already deflated, while a second, rarer type of AI bubble continues to expand.

A new neuromorphic chip from Cambridge using memristors could reduce AI computing energy consumption by over 70%, with switching current a million times lower than conventional chips.

KubeCon Europe 2026 spotlighted AI inference as its central theme, with CNCF receiving major donations including Nvidia's GPU DRA driver and the llm-d project.

Bluesky unveiled Attie at the Atmosphere conference — a standalone AI app that lets users build custom social feeds using plain language, now in closed beta.

A growing number of tech executives are publicly attributing mass layoffs to AI adoption, raising questions about whether AI is the real cause or a convenient excuse.

Apple is pivoting its AI strategy around iOS 27 Siri Extensions, letting users install third-party AI chatbots, while doubling down on hardware and services revenue.

Innovation Council Action, a new pro-AI political group backed by Trump allies, plans to spend over $100 million in the 2026 midterms to back AI deregulation.

Eli Lilly has inked a deal worth up to $2.75 billion with AI pharma firm Insilico Medicine to develop and commercialize AI-discovered oral drugs globally.

OpenAI discontinued its Sora AI video-generation app just six months after launch, citing unsustainable compute costs and a strategic pivot toward agents and a new model.

A CMS misconfiguration exposed Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos model, which the company confirmed marks a 'step change' in reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity.

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