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Ineffable Intelligence secures £814m seed round

UK-headquartered AI superintelligence company Ineffable Intelligence has secured $1.1bn (£814m) in seed funding to develop algorithms that learn through experience.

Jeff Bezos' AI lab nears $38B valuation in funding deal

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ AI startup Project Prometheus is close to raising $10 billion, valuing the venture at $38 billion, according to the Financial Times.

HockeyStack Raises $50M to Build Revenue Agents for the Enterprise

The startup secured a $50M round to advance its AI‑powered revenue platform, targeting enterprise sales teams.

AI Regulation Surges, Apple Smart Glasses Leak, and Autonomous IT Rise — Tech News April 12, 2026

AI is becoming a national security concern, Apple is preparing its next hardware breakthrough, and enterprises are moving toward fully autonomous systems.

Sony Raises PS5 Prices as AI Boom and Middle East Conflict Drive Up Chip Costs

The $14 Trillion Warning: AI’s Riches Will Be a “Few and the Rest” Story

Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, warns the AI boom risks worsening inequality, with rewards flowing only to a handful of firms and investors. In his annual letter, he noted that AI threatens to repeat—and amplify—a pattern where wealth accrues to those who already own assets. His solution: more people should invest in capital markets rather than rely on homeownership. The warning comes as BlackRock manages $14tn and Fink’s own $30.8m pay package has drawn shareholder scrutiny.

MacBook Neo: The $599 Laptop That's Making People Ditch Big Tech AI Forever

Apple's boldest value play in years isn't just turning heads — it's quietly becoming the go-to machine for a generation tired of paying monthly fees to borrow someone else's intelligence.

China's Blueprint to Own the Future

China has a plan to own the future — and it's already running. Robots, open-source AI, and a hard deadline of 2030. Here's what Beijing's Five-Year Plan actually means for the rest of the world.

Iran Strikes Amazon's Data Centers -- and Signals a New Kind of War

Drone attacks on AWS facilities in the UAE and Bahrain are the first deliberate wartime strikes on cloud infrastructure -- and experts warn they won't be the last.

US Military Reportedly Used Claude in Iran Strikes Despite Trump's Ban

Trump denounces Anthropic as a 'Radical Left AI company' while the Pentagon scrambles to detach from deeply embedded technology

Anthropic's Battle With the Pentagon

Anthropic has found itself, reluctantly, as one of the only checks on the military's expanding AI ambitions — a role no private company was built to play

Apple's $599 MacBook Neo Is the Budget Laptop It Should Have Built Years Ago

The MacBook Neo is Apple’s most affordable laptop ever and its clearest attempt yet to compete with Chromebooks and entry-level Windows laptops. Unlike the MacBook Air and Pro, the Neo runs on an iPhone-class A-series chip, which helps Apple cut the starting price sharply while keeping the design lightweight and colorful.

Sam Altman Admits OpenAI Has No Control Over Pentagon's AI Use

Sam Altman admitted to employees that OpenAI has no control over how the Pentagon uses its AI in military operations, saying "you do not get to make operational decisions" about strikes or invasions. The admission comes as the Pentagon pressures AI companies to remove safety guardrails for broader military applications. Rival company Anthropic recently refused a deal with the Pentagon over ethical concerns and was labeled a "supply-chain risk" by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, while OpenAI quickly partnered with the military instead.

OpenAI's "Sloppy" Pentagon Deal Sparks Surveillance Fears and User Revolt

OpenAI is facing a user revolt after hastily striking a deal to supply AI to the US Department of War, a move its own CEO admitted looked "opportunistic and sloppy." The contract, signed immediately after the Pentagon dropped previous contractor Anthropic, sparked fears that ChatGPT's technology could be used for domestic mass surveillance. Despite OpenAI's insistence that the deal included strict guardrails, critics drew parallels to the Snowden scandal, triggering a "delete ChatGPT" campaign on social media.

Burger King Wants Its Staff to Say Please. It's Hired AI to Make Sure They Do

When Burger King's new AI system "Patty" detects that an employee forgot to say "please," a manager will know. When a bathroom needs cleaning, Patty will know that too. In the fast-food industry's latest experiment with artificial intelligence, the question isn't just whether your order is accurate — it's whether the person taking it sounds friendly enough to satisfy an algorithm.

One Prompt, Four Personalities: Why AI Can’t Agree on Design

We asked ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and DeepSeek the exact same question: “How should we redesign the 'Add to Cart' flow to reduce friction for mobile users?” If they are all "intelligent," why do they speak different languages? The answer lies in their DNA.

Meta Bets Big on AMD in $60bn AI Chip Deal

Meta has agreed to a sweeping $60bn, five-year deal with Advanced Micro Devices, acquiring chips and a 10% stake in the company as it doubles down on AI — the latest sign that the industry's hunger for processing power is only growing stronger.

Amazon AI Outage Raises Concerns Over Automation Risks in AWS Cloud Infrastructure

Amazon’s push toward AI-driven efficiency has come under scrutiny after reports that an internal outage at Amazon Web Services was triggered by one of its own AI agents. While the company attributes the disruption to user misconfiguration rather than artificial intelligence itself, experts warn that autonomous systems can act without fully grasping broader consequences, raising fresh concerns about the risks of replacing human oversight with automation.

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