Your therapist can't sell your secrets, but your AI chatbot can — until now, maybe. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon are updating the Health and Location Data Protection Act to explicitly ban AI companies from selling users' health and location data to brokers
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While foundation models feast on internet text, the robots that need to actually *do* things are starving for data nobody's collecting. Proception just raised $11M and settled a Tesla trade secret lawsuit, clearing the deck to tackle robotic manipulation through better training data
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A botched experiment in a neuromorphic engineering lab might have just solved the problem that's been eating AI alive — the energy bill.
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The AI training gold rush just ran into a literal problem: the water cooling those GPUs is growing bacteria. Omen AI raised $31 million Series A to monitor coolant systems in data centers and prevent bacterial contamination
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Two data center startups raised capital in the same week, but only one understood that the real money isn't in building boxes—it's in solving the power problem before the boxes exist.
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When your rocket company starts pouring Starship engineers into chatbots, you're either desperately behind or desperately ahead of something the market hasn't priced in yet.
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While Silicon Valley debates if humanoid robots are vaporware or the next iPhone, China just quietly minted two billion-dollar bets that the hardware era is here.
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South Korea just declared AI infrastructure a matter of national survival — and backed it with nearly $1 trillion in corporate firepower.
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China's search giant quietly assembled the entire AI stack while everyone else was still arguing about which layer to own. Baidu now controls every layer of its AI operation: custom chips, the Ernie model, cloud infrastructure, and Apollo Go robotaxis
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The intern economy just got its first real competitor, and it doesn't need coffee breaks or LinkedIn recommendations.
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OpenAI just drew a map of who's staying employed in Europe and who's getting replaced — and they published it themselves.
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The $26 billion AI coding company is telling everyone to stop measuring the wrong thing. Cognition CEO Scott Wu says token spend leaderboards are "directionally correct" but companies rank engineers by the wrong metric: output matters, not how much API spend you rack up
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Germany just turned AI deployment into an economic policy, and the playbook they're writing looks nothing like Silicon Valley's. A German homebuilder cut invoice processing time in half by deploying AI to handle 250+ weekly invoices, a task that previously consumed four working days
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Germany just put a price tag on its demographic crisis, and the number isn't what matters — it's who's doing the work. A German homebuilder cut invoice processing time in half using AI, dropping what took four working days to two for 250+ weekly invoices.
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The money is flowing toward Chinese autonomous driving now, not because the tech got better last week, but because Beijing decided it matters. Momenta Global, a GM-backed autonomous driving firm, is raising $752 million in a Hong Kong IPO — timing the multiyear high for share sales in the city
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The robots.txt file changed how crawlers behave on the web — Auth.md wants to do the same thing for AI agents that need to act on your behalf. WorkOS released Auth.md, an open protocol that lets AI agents programmatically register users with services via a single Markdown file hosted at your domain.
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South Korea just turned its chipmakers into nation-state weapons in the AI arms race. Samsung and SK Hynix committed to at least $880 billion in AI infrastructure spending over the next decade, including two new chip fabrication plants in a coordinated government briefing
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While the West debates AI regulation, Korea is writing a $1.3 trillion check to own the picks and shovels. Samsung and SK Hynix are preparing a 10-year, $1.3 trillion investment plan focused on memory chips, data centers, and robotics to maintain Korea's AI infrastructure lead.
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The chip embargo was supposed to slow China down. Instead, they're getting better at doing more with less. China's Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, an open-weight model that researchers claim matches Mythos performance in bug-finding and cybersecurity tasks
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NVIDIA just split its monolithic AI framework and put speech on its own track — a sign that voice is about to get the agent treatment.
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