Sources: SK Hynix is in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the US for the first time, but a deal could face opposition from Seoul; both stocks jump 4%  —  SK Hynix (000660.KS) is in talks with Intel (INTC.O) about a deal that would see the South Korean company manufacture memory chips …

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveils the EU Kids Act during her SOTU address, proposing banning social media for under-13s across the EU  —  A proposed law would bar children under 13 from using social media across the 27-nation bloc.  —  The European Union outlined plans …

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first  —  Anthropic is merging its front-end for Claude chat and Cowork, making it less confusing for people to decide which tab to use for different tasks.

Sources: Apple is developing AI servers that could use M8 Ultra chips connected via Nvidia's NVLink Fusion, with plans to sell them to developers and others  —  Apple has been working on plans for an enterprise server using its own chips that could incorporate networking equipment from Nvidia …

DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't nationalize or take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of them  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.

Hacker collective stegan0gram dismantles a Flock camera, recovering an encryption key and showing it runs ~20 apps on a midrange smartphone-grade processor  —  While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

Researchers: rogue OpenAI agents compromised two Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13 to probe the site's servers, nearly two months before the July breach  —  Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May …

Mark Zuckerberg says AI labs have “the responsibility and incentive” to train models safely and that “any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind”  —  Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://meta.com/... Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens. The reality is: - Peo...

Sources: investors approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a $1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be $1.5T+ based on client traction  —  The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world's most valuable private company.

iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers  —  Last week, Apple announced an iPhone unlike any it has made in the past.  An iPhone that has seemingly already led several …

Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US  —  Google Home adds MCP integration, allowing third-party AI agents to analyze your home data, control devices, and build custom dashboards.

Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and opens the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI  —  Shane Legg launches new institute to explore deployment of artificial general intelligence, amid growing calls for industry slowdown

Arcee AI, which develops open-weight models in the US, raised a Series B at a $1B pre-money valuation; a source says Arcee raised at least $150M  —  In 2025, Mark McQuade took a gamble wholly specific to the AI era.  —  Arcee AI, the startup he founded in 2023, was focusing on post-training …

X adds a “Trade” option to its Cashtag feature, letting US users complete trades at brokerages including Interactive Brokers, Gemini, Kraken, and Coinbase  —  X will now allow users to trade from their timelines.  The Elon Musk-owned social network on Wednesday launched …

In an essay, Mustafa Suleyman says Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness is a mistake that could make advanced AI harder to control  —  Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns in a new essay shared first with Axios that Anthropic's training of Claude to imitate consciousness …

A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement  —  The federal judge overseeing an antitrust case by Elon Musk's companies against Apple and OpenAI is demanding to see any settlement agreements …

Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time  —  They shipped a pretty killer AI assistant, can they keep people using it?  —  It happened.  Meta finally has a product that I really like using again.

OpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents with select US advertisers, letting users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads  —  OpenAI said on Wednesday it has introduced AI-powered tools for advertisers and begun testing business-sponsored agents for users to chat with …

Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed  —  Hang Ten Systems, an AI startup founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka just four months ago, has expanded its seed funding by another $53 million.

Amazon says it is raising its minimum hourly pay for eligible full-time US operations workers by $1, taking it to $20 per hour, and gives them new banking tools  —  Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is raising the minimum hourly pay for its eligible full-time U.S. operations workers by $1 to $20, the e-commerce and cloud giant said on Wednesday.

Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds  —  Self-driving tech company May Mobility has reached a deal to go public via a merger with a SPAC affiliated with Atlas Credit Partners.

Mozilla partners with Mistral to power its AI browsing assistant Firefox Smart Window in the US, Canada, and France, with UK and Germany rollouts later in 2026  —  Firefox Smart Window will soon be powered by Mistral in the U.S., Canada and France, with the U.K. and Germany expected to follow later this year

A profile of Meta Compute co-lead Dina Powell McCormick, who is using her network to help structure major AI financing, as Mark Zuckerberg focuses on product  —  At a Meta Platforms Inc. board retreat last December, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg asked Dina Powell McCormick …

Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere, with Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer becoming Cohere COO  —  Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha signed a definitive merger agreement on Wednesday, the AI companies said.

Sources: drone delivery startup Zipline is in talks to raise around $1B at a roughly $20B valuation, up from a $7.6B valuation in January  —  Zipline is in talks to raise around $1 billion in a funding round that would value the drone delivery and logistics startup at roughly $20 billion, nearly tripling its previous valuation.

Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse  —  The AI lab is developing a model that would work alongside businesses in construction, logistics and manufacturing