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Ex-OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew’s Arda raises $230M at $1.5B valuation for AI manufacturing software used by Anduril.
Novo Nordisk said CagriSema produced 25% average weight loss in adult women at 68 weeks in a new analysis, compared with 3% for placebo, as the Danish drugmaker prepares to launch the next-generation obesity treatment.
Gartner again named Alibaba Cloud a container management Leader, the only Asia-Pacific company, for a fourth year.
Elice fell 32% in its South Korean trading debut, pressuring CoreWeave and other AI data-center stocks and reviving concerns over overcapacity and credit risk.
OpenAI says its models now handle COBOL and other legacy code better, citing migration tests for banks.
Spotify began rolling out paid podcast Memberships in 34 markets, letting creators charge for bonus content and keep 90 percent of revenue.
SmartBear added Sources and Workflows to BearQ, extending the agentic QA system beyond test automation.
IBM-backed llm-d released version 1.0, adding multi-tenant controls, zero-downtime upgrades and agent-focused routing for self-hosted AI inference.
Kantata launched Expertise Insights, letting services firms query business data in plain English for charts or summaries.
A Maryland developer has asked San Francisco about permits for a possible AI datacenter and community exhibit at the boarded-up San Francisco Centre mall, the Chronicle reported. No permit has been filed, and a new 45-day moratorium may affect approval.
Microsoft unveiled Guardian Agents to monitor autonomous AI agents it now treats as potential insider threats.
Leiphone says China orders for Nvidia's RTX PRO 5500 top 3 million before delivery, while RTX 5090 prices climb.
Yelp introduced Check for Me, an AI agent that calls restaurants for wait times, plus OpenTable booking, assistant memory, custom lists and a paid lead-reply tool for businesses.
Microsoft reportedly drops anchor role in Nscale's UK AI supercomputer over grid delays to the 2030s.
Best Buy launched a beta gaming hub with IGN, timed to major game releases, as the retailer seeks growth amid slumping sales.
Slate opened its first showroom in Chicago, displaying its $24,950 electric pickup and taking $300 pre-orders.
Starling partners Nvidia for a transactional foundation model, joining Revolut and Lendable in Europe's fintech AI race.
Exa released Exa 3.0, claiming its AI search API beats Perplexity, Brave and Parallel on eight self-run benchmarks.
TechRadar says organizations risk outages and cyber incidents when they try to deliver too much IT change at once.
Bing Wallpaper has reintroduced a Windows 11 click-to-search feature with no off switch, TechRadar reports.
Samsung is expanding its Pyeongtaek semiconductor complex, with three fabs running around the clock and a fourth coming online, as AI-driven memory demand rises.
Joyn’s 50/Cut meat-and-mushroom blend won 92% support in a South Carolina high school taste test, as startups seek to cut beef demand by blending plants into familiar meat foods.
Nord Security has fixed CVE-2026-106030, a Windows app flaw that let local attackers stop some unprotected services; version 8.12.0.0 and later are unaffected.
Some Google Home speakers are downloading hundreds of gigabytes in the background; Google says a fix is rolling out.