Project Prometheus, launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in initial funding, is developing AI systems that understand the physical world, targeting engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, and drug discovery. The round has…
Clarifai says it deleted 3 million OkCupid user photos and the facial-recognition models trained on them
The AI company received the photos from OkCupid in 2014 without users’ knowledge, in a data transfer that breached OkCupid’s own privacy policy. The FTC’s late March settlement with OkCupid and Match…
Amazon puts up to $25 billion more into Anthropic and secures 10-year cloud commitment in return
The deal is Amazon’s second consecutive mega-round with a frontier AI lab, following a near-identical $50 billion investment in OpenAI two months ago. Anthropic’s annualised revenue has reached $30 billion. The arrangement…
OpenAI’s Codex for Mac now watches your screen to build context, but sends the screenshots to its servers first
Summary: OpenAI’s Codex for Mac has added Chronicle, a research preview feature that periodically captures screenshots, sends them to OpenAI’s servers for processing, and stores text summaries as local unencrypted Markdown files…
Semrush launches a framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search as the old SEO playbook breaks down
Summary: Semrush launched a Brand Visibility Framework at Adobe Summit introducing “Agentic Search Optimisation” as a new discipline for measuring brand presence across AI-generated answers, traditional search, and autonomous AI agents, drawing…
Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after nearly 15 years, with hardware chief John Ternus taking over
Summary: Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO on 1 September after nearly 15 years, during which Apple’s market capitalisation grew from $348 billion to roughly $4 trillion and annual revenue…
WhatsApp is testing a paid subscription at EUR 2.49 per month as Meta rolls out premium tiers across its apps
Summary: WhatsApp has begun testing a paid consumer subscription called WhatsApp Plus at approximately EUR 2.49 per month, offering cosmetic upgrades including 18 chat themes, custom icons, exclusive ringtones, and expanded pinned…
Google is building a four-partner chip supply chain to challenge Nvidia in AI inference
Summary: Google is building the AI industry’s most diversified custom chip supply chain, with four design partners (Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell, Intel) and a roadmap stretching from the Ironwood TPU now shipping in…
Musk fails to appear before Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of child sexual images
Summary: Elon Musk failed to appear for a voluntary interview with Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of an estimated 23,000 sexualised images of children and 3 million sexualised images overall over an…
The 8 best supplier management software platforms: The 2026 buyer’s guide
As of 2026, I’ve spent more than 10 years analyzing procurement technology and supply chain logistics for public companies. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from these audits, it’s that managing suppliers…