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Ars Technica ↗
Elon Musk's X Corp moved to dismiss Apple from its antitrust lawsuit over ChatGPT's integration into iOS, while keeping its claims against OpenAI intact. The suit originally accused Apple and OpenAI of colluding to lock competing chatbots out of preferential placement on the iPhone. Dropping Apple narrows the case but leaves OpenAI facing continued litigation from Musk, who has repeatedly clashed with Sam Altman since leaving OpenAI's board.
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TechMeme ↗
Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen Hamilton are restricting or curbing use of Anthropic's Fable models after a June policy change gave Anthropic the right to retain usage logs for 30 days to guard against misuse. Palantir has pressed Anthropic for an irrevocable zero data retention guarantee before making the models available through its software, Nvidia limits Fable to less sensitive tasks while relying on its own Nemotron models internally, and Booz Allen has barred employees from using Fable for proprietary cybersecurity work. Anthropic responded by rolling out Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, letting customers store activity data in their own cloud under their own encryption keys with automated rather than human misuse monitoring.
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Unite. AI ↗
Temporal, whose Durable Execution technology preserves application state so software workflows can survive failures and resume rather than restart, raised a $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Lightspeed, Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, and Tiger Global, with T. Rowe Price, SV Angel, and returning investors including a16z and Sequoia also participating. The company's annualized revenue run rate recently topped $250 million, growing more than 200% year over year, with Temporal Cloud now used by more than 4,000 customers including OpenAI, Cursor, Netflix, and JPMorgan Chase.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
OpenAI has acquired smartphone camera technology maker Glass Imaging for a reported $300 million. Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed the iPhone's Portrait Mode camera feature. The deal adds hardware imaging expertise to OpenAI's growing roster of acquisitions as the company continues to build out consumer device ambitions beyond ChatGPT.
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Bloomberg Technology ↗
Minebea Mitsumi, one of Japan's biggest corporate dealmakers and a key supplier to Nintendo, is pausing acquisitions to focus instead on ball bearings, motors, and actuators used in AI hardware. Chairman Yoshihisa Kainuma said the company sees climbing demand forecasts from data centers and humanoid robots as offering unlimited upside, and has no current plans for further deals. The shift shows how AI infrastructure demand is reshaping capital allocation even among established industrial component makers.
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Unite. AI ↗
Universal Robots, a Teradyne Robotics company and the original maker of collaborative industrial robots, unveiled its seventh generation cobot platform at the IMTS tradeshow in Chicago. Gen 7 introduces new robot arms, a fully reengineered controller and teach pendant, and updated software aimed at moving AI capabilities out of the lab and into everyday industrial operations. The launch reflects growing competition among robotics makers to pair physical hardware with AI software as manufacturers push for more autonomous factory floors.
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CNBC Technology ↗
Shares of Chinese AI company Z.ai tumbled more than 10% after it announced a $5 billion fundraising round, its second major capital raise in just two months. Investors appeared to react to concerns about dilution and the pace at which the company is burning through cash to compete in China's crowded AI model market. The back to back raises underscore how capital intensive frontier model development has become even for well funded Chinese labs.
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TechRepublic ↗
Malaysia has completed a draft AI Governance Bill that would introduce risk classification, oversight requirements, and incident reporting obligations for enterprises using AI systems. The move brings Malaysia closer to peers like the European Union and California in establishing formal AI compliance frameworks, rather than relying on voluntary guidelines. Businesses operating in Malaysia should expect new reporting and risk assessment obligations once the bill is finalized.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
Email platform Superhuman has acquired YC-backed AI meeting notetaker Fathom, which offers a generous free plan that has drawn over 400,000 monthly active users and more than 1 million people who have used it to record meetings. The acquisition reflects a broader push among productivity software makers to bundle agentic AI features rather than compete with standalone point solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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TechRepublic ↗
Ant Group's AI health app AQ has reached 150 million users in China as the company expands its features into wearable device data, nutrition tracking, sleep monitoring, exercise coaching, and AI powered health guidance. The rapid user growth positions Ant Group as one of the largest consumer AI health platforms globally, leveraging its existing Alipay ecosystem to drive adoption. The expansion underscores how quickly AI health tools are scaling in China's massive consumer market.