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Breaking technology news for readers in the United States, filed the day it happens. We cover Apple, Google, Microsoft and Nvidia alongside the security breaches, privacy rulings and antitrust cases that decide what your devices are allowed to do, and every story is checked against primary sources before it runs. Model releases and app news sit in AI & Software, handsets in Mobile.
Google cut Gemini 3.6 Flash’s price in half just weeks after launch, matching GPT-5.6 Luna and DeepSeek’s own moves. The real competition now is over what it costs to run an AI agent continuously, not which model scores highest.
Ema’s $77 million Series B more than quadruples its 2024 valuation on a thesis that enterprise SaaS apps are turning into mere databases once AI agents do the actual work on top of them.
Deccan AI raised $25 million led by A91 Partners to sell expert post training data from an India based network. Here is the deal, the rivals and what followed.
The world’s richest man says he is living in an Airstream trailer parked at xAI’s Memphis site so he can sleep steps from the servers. The trailer is the charming part. The 2 gigawatt facility it sits beside is the story.
King Charles summoned the leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google DeepMind to a Georgian house in East Ayrshire to talk about existential risk. Nothing binding came out of it, but the guest list says plenty.
Geoffrey Hinton told a closed-door congressional briefing that lawmakers have “maybe a year” to regulate AI. The congressional calendar says the real deadline is a lot sooner than that, and it is not September.
Novo Nordisk is putting Anthropic’s Claude Science into its research labs, its third AI partnership in six months. Here is what the tool actually does, why the timing is not a coincidence, and the wall every pharma AI deal runs into.
A $1,000 stake in Microsoft in September 2016 would be worth roughly $8,900 today, or closer to $9,900 with dividends reinvested. Here is the math, what actually drove it, and the three things these posts never mention.
Emulate was incorporated in August. It has no product, no website and no disclosed headcount. It is in talks to raise $700 million at a valuation approaching $4 billion, and the reason is three names from DeepMind’s world model team.
New York is putting 17 app-controlled public restrooms on its streets under a $4 million pilot. They are clean, solar powered and free. They also give you 10 minutes before the door slides open by itself.