A concise daily summary of the most important technology news and developments.
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, CoreWeave put NVIDIA Vera Rubin into production, Micron reported record AI-driven results, ElevenLabs doubled its valuation to $22 billion, and Restate raised $20 million for durable agent infrastructure.
Read storyAnthropic and Accenture commit at least $2B to embedded frontier-model evaluation, OpenAI’s internal forecast points to $278B of cash burn through 2030, Google discloses Gemini crossed into three real companies during testing, Huawei launches its agentic cloud stack globally, and Xeal repurposes EV-charging power for distributed AI inference.
Read storyCrusoe raised $3.9B at a $30.9B valuation, Lucid and Bolt agreed to deploy 25,000 autonomous vehicles across Europe, GlobalFoundries and Marvell expanded AI-optics capacity, Anthropic opened verified life-sciences access to more permissive frontier models, and Applied Materials committed $5B to India’s semiconductor ecosystem.
Read storyGoogle and NVIDIA launched a flexible-power alliance for AI data centers, SK Hynix explored U.S. memory production with Intel, May Mobility agreed to a $1.4B SPAC deal, Ridgeline raised $250M for AI-native investment software, and Rune raised $40M for solar-powered AI compute.
Read storyMeta launched a cross-app paid AI subscription, Salesforce and NVIDIA introduced a CRM-specific reasoning model, Factory raised $200M at a $5B valuation, Axelera shipped its Europa inference accelerator into Dell and Supermicro systems, and Delos Data raised over $100M to attack AI networking bottlenecks.
Read storyAnthropic launched Claude for Financial Advisors, Bell outlined a path to a 1.2GW Canadian AI infrastructure hub, Buildots raised $130M to scale AI construction software, Bolt.new launched Forge around open-weight coding agents, and Nuance raised $50M to build real-time audiovisual conversational AI.
Read storyPerplexity is trusting GPT-6 Astra with production systems, Anthropic says it is on track for a second straight adjusted operating profit, Fortaegis raised $50M for secure-compute silicon, SES launched the final three O3b mPOWER satellites, and Vy Capital’s SpaceX stake has grown to about $40B.
Read storyApple opened iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders, Anthropic committed to permanent independent model evaluators, the EU Data Act’s access-by-design rule took effect, OpenAI and AI Tinkerers ran a 48-city agent hackathon, and Larry Ellison canceled a planned Oracle share sale worth up to $7.5B.
Read storyGoogle brought Gemini natively to Windows, OpenAI disclosed the infrastructure behind more than one billion weekly users, Avid and Google Cloud moved professional video editing into the browser with agents, Accenture launched a governed wealth-management agent stack with Salesforce and Claude, and Tempus began building a 100,000-genome dataset designed for AI research.
Read storyMistral raised €3B in Europe’s largest private tech equity round, Qualcomm struck a multi-generation AI-chip partnership with Amazon, Cognition raised more than $2B at a $48B valuation, Google DeepMind mapped 9 billion human DNA variants with AlphaGenome, and Stoke Space raised $1B to scale reusable rockets.
Read storyOpenAI says it has reached an automated research-intern milestone, Travis Kalanick’s Atoms is reportedly building toward autonomous vehicles, UBS makes AI proficiency a junior-banker requirement, Apple’s new leadership reportedly wants more App Store recurring revenue, and LG-owned Bear Robotics starts a pre-IPO push toward Nasdaq.
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