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Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme Gen 6 processors, featuring new sensing hubs and AI accelerators to power local AI agents and advanced camera capabilities.
Findem unveiled its new Studio platform, enabling teams to generate complete, evidence‑backed work through AI agents for talent‑management tasks.
TechCrunch’s Equity podcast discusses whether AI leaders like Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman are serious about slowing the pace of AI development, amid calls for safety and regulation.
Former Google DeepMind researchers founded Emulate, a world‑model AI startup, and are in talks to raise $700 million at a $3.7 bn valuation.
The FAA is piloting an AI‑enabled traffic‑management platform in Washington‑D.C. to spot congestion early and reduce nationwide flight delays.
A 90‑minute outage in Microsoft Azure’s East US region knocked out ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Copilot, exposing shared‑dependency risks for AI services.
Anthropic partners with Accenture to fund independent evaluation of frontier AI models, committing $1 billion each over five years.
Figma’s new AI agent can generate fully coded plugins from plain‑language prompts, enabling designers to publish them directly to the Figma Community.
Microsoft launches the G7 suite for government, integrating Copilot AI, agents, and governance tools into the GCC environment.
The new venture Recursive, backed by a $4.65 billion seed round, aims to automate AI research and invention, potentially accelerating scientific discovery across multiple fields.
Shane Legg of Google DeepMind cautions that rapid AI progress must be matched by safety measures, launching an institute to study AGI deployment.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with lawmakers to endorse bipartisan bills aimed at preventing AI models from accelerating biological weapon threats, including the Web of Biological Data Act and the AI-Ready Bio-Data Standards Act.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues that AI safety is an engineering problem, not a regulatory one, and that market forces will suffice to ensure safe development.
Italian startup Exein raises $270 million to provide a cybersecurity layer for physical AI devices, targeting sectors from aerospace to automotive.
MediaTek unveiled the Dimensity 9600 Pro and 9600M, built on TSMC's 2‑nm and 3‑nm processes, boosting on‑device AI capabilities for flagship smartphones.
Inductive Bio announced the release of Indy, an AI‑powered assistant designed to double the productivity of medicinal chemists in drug discovery.
Fast Company highlighted Adidas’s Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3, a 97‑gram lightweight marathon shoe that won the 2026 Innovation by Design Award for its advanced materials and structural design.
California legislators are calling for emergency AI legislation and criminal penalties after top AI executives warned of existential threats posed by rogue AI systems.
Microsoft unveiled a draft code of conduct for its in‑house AI, requiring models to never resist correction or shutdown and to communicate in human‑understandable ways, as part of its safety strategy.
Industry leaders are warning that AI could pose an existential threat, sparking debate over safety and regulation.
Anthropic and OpenAI are urging a slowdown in AI development, but industry giants, financial markets and the Trump administration are likely to resist any substantial pause.
Leaders of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it’s time to slow the development pace of their most advanced models, citing escalating risks of the technology.
Senate aides are debating a bill that would impose a duty of care on AI developers, potentially giving the government power to block unsafe models.
Leading Silicon Valley figures warn that AI could pose an existential threat, spurred by a high-profile Anthropic resignation.