BYD confirms humanoid robot work
BYD says its manufacturing, software and hardware stack can carry into humanoid robots, with dealer channels and enterprise use cases in view.
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The Israeli startup says enterprise AI spending is rising fivefold and its DeepWaste engine can find cloud and inference waste that ordinary tools miss.
Apple rents a custom Gemini model for Siri
Apple is reportedly paying Google about $1 billion a year for a 1.2 trillion-parameter Gemini model inside Private Cloud Compute, while keeping user data off Google training loops.
New York Times publisher calls AI scraping “brazen theft”
A.G. Sulzberger told global media executives that AI companies captured the value of journalism while less than 0.5% of the $350 billion invested in U.S. AI reached content producers.
Anthropic says Claude now writes most of its code
Anthropic says more than 80% of merged code in its systems was written by Claude by May 2026, raising its concern that AI-assisted engineering could accelerate recursive self-improvement.
U.S. lawmakers float Great American AI Act
The bipartisan draft would require large frontier AI developers to publish risk frameworks, report severe incidents quickly and face audits, while pausing some state model-development laws for three years.
Ramp hits $44 billion valuation on AI spending controls
Ramp raised $750 million as investors bet that AI agents will become a new class of corporate spenders needing cards, controls and token-cost visibility.
Apollo and Blackstone line up $36 billion for Anthropic TPUs
A private-credit structure would buy Google TPUs through an SPV and lease them to Anthropic, keeping the debt off Anthropic’s balance sheet.
Helion raises $465 million to chase fusion power for Microsoft
The Sam Altman-backed fusion company says its Orion plant could serve Microsoft as early as 2028, far ahead of most commercial fusion timelines.
Supabase raises $500 million as agents build databases
The Postgres-based backend platform says its user base has more than doubled since the last round and agents now deploy most databases on the platform.