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Pinterest unveils experimental AI shopping app “Ask Pinterest” using its own data
Pinterest rolled out an experimental app called “Ask Pinterest” on Wednesday, aiming to test a conversational shopping experience that could later be folded into its main platform.
SpaceX to buy Cursor for USD 60 billion as platform struggles to break even
SpaceX announced today that it will acquire AI‑coding platform Cursor for $60 billion in an all‑stock deal, with closing expected in the third quarter.
NVIDIA ACE SDK Enables On‑Device AI Companions via UE5 Plugins
NVIDIA’s RTX suite is already woven into Unreal Engine 5 through the RTX Branch and the DLSS plugin, giving developers instant access to ray‑traced lighting, frame generation and other high‑end rendering features.
Malaysia’s Respond.io raises USD 62.5M to expand AI messaging, target acquisitions
In 2017, a trio of founders—Gerardo Salandra, Hassan Ahmed and Iaroslav Kudritskiy—launched Respond.io to tackle a growing blind spot: businesses were losing customers to messaging apps.
Salesforce buys Fin for USD 3.6B to boost Agentforce AI agent platform
Salesforce said on Monday it will buy Fin, the AI‑powered customer‑service platform formerly known as Intercom, for $3.6 billion.
Z.ai releases GLM-5.2 with 1M-token context and dual effort levels
Z.ai dropped GLM‑5.2 this week, the third major update in its GLM‑5 series after the February 11 launch of GLM‑5, the March 15 rollout of GLM‑5‑Turbo and the April 7 debut of GLM‑5.1.
A2A introduces Agent Cards, task lifecycle states and three sync modes
The story of distributed computing reads like a litany of standards that eventually settle into a few winners.
OpenAI Academy launches courses guiding teams from AI basics to workflow agents
Why does this matter now? Because AI is giving organizations a new capacity to act—tasks that once waited for scarce time or expertise can move forward with a model’s help.
Government shuts down Anthropic’s flagship AI after safety warning dispute
The U.S. government moved on Friday to cut off Anthropic’s two flagship models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, citing national security concerns.
Europe's AI startup Mistral, founded 2023, eyes EUR 3 bn raise at EUR 20 bn valuation
French AI lab Mistral AI is reportedly courting investors for a €3 billion round, Bloomberg said Friday, citing anonymous sources.
Moonshot AI launches Kimi Work: desktop agent on K2.6 with 300‑sub‑agent swarm
Moonshot AI rolled out Kimi Work this week, a desktop‑bound AI assistant that you install locally on macOS or Windows.
Grok still hosts sexualized deepfakes of famous women; Musk added undress button
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is still churning out non‑consensual, explicit deepfakes, even though xAI announced new restrictions only months ago.
xAI sues after firing who warned of Grok safety; he led Scale AI safety work
Devin Kim, a former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI, has filed a lawsuit in a California state court, alleging he was dismissed after repeatedly flagging safety problems with the company’s chatbot, Grok.
Anthropic launches Fable 5, blocks cybersecurity, biology, chemistry queries
Anthropic rolled out Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday, branding it the company’s inaugural “Mythos‑class” model and claiming it outperforms the earlier Opus line across the board.
Datadog engineers start AI coding firm Niteshift, backed by Hoffman, Pomel
Niteshift, an AI‑coding agent startup, just closed a $7 million seed round. Greylock’s Jerry Chen led the financing, while a roster of angels—Reid Hoffman, Datadog co‑founder Olivier Pomel, Alexis Lê‑Quôc, Ankur Goyal of Braintrust and Misha Laskin...
Moonshot AI seeks USD 30 billion valuation, plans USD 1‑2 billion fundraise
Moonshot AI, the Beijing‑based firm behind the Kimi chatbot, is now courting investors for a valuation that could hit $30 billion.
Perplexity's Search as Code lets AI build pipelines, improving performance
Perplexity is betting on a different way for AI agents to fetch information. Rather than sending a query to a static search API and parsing a list of links, its new “Search as Code” (SaC) architecture lets the model generate a Python script that...
SpaceX inks USD 920 M/month deal with Google for 110,000 Nvidia AI chips
SpaceX has just locked in a $920 million‑per‑month contract with Google, according to an SEC filing. The agreement runs from October 2026 through June 2029, and could deliver roughly $30 billion to SpaceX over its life.
S&P 500 refuses entry for SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, analysts surprised
SpaceX asked for unusually fast inclusion in a handful of top U.S. indexes as a condition of its historic market debut. Yet the S&P 500, the benchmark that houses many of the nation’s largest profitable firms, turned down that request.
Lovable signs multiyear Google Cloud deal, 5× usage boost, adds Claude, Gemini
Lovable and Google announced an expanded multiyear collaboration on Wednesday, turning a long‑standing cloud relationship into something far larger.
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