Bezos-backed Flourish raises $500 million for brain-like AI
The New York startup has no product or revenue yet, but raised at a $2.5 billion valuation on a bet that AI’s power problem needs brain-inspired computing.
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The data-center operator has moved from an $11 billion take-private deal to a potential $50 billion-plus valuation as AI demand turns power and land into scarce assets.
Meta code points to NameTag face recognition for smart glasses
Wired found code for an unreleased feature that could let Meta smart glasses remember faces and surface names or context, raising the stakes for AI privacy.
Generalist AI raises $400 million for robot foundation models
The DeepMind and Boston Dynamics alumni behind Generalist AI are betting that adaptable robot intelligence is the next expensive frontier after software AI.
Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Plus adds vision and agent loops
The multimodal version of Qwen3.7-Max can read images and video, but Alibaba is emphasizing autonomous iteration, tool use and self-testing.
Microsoft unveils seven in-house MAI models
At Build 2026, Microsoft showed a full in-house model stack from reasoning to image, voice, transcription and coding, signaling a cheaper fallback beside OpenAI.
KPMG opens Claude to 276,000 staff worldwide
KPMG is expanding Claude from a US deployment to all employees across 138 markets, embedding Claude Cowork and Managed Agents in its Azure-based Digital Gateway.
OpenAI updates GPT-Rosalind for life sciences
OpenAI’s life-science model adds agentic coding, research plugins and NGS analysis tools, while cutting token use by 31% on long quantitative biology tasks.
US House draft would pause state AI model laws
A 269-page bipartisan discussion draft would preempt state rules on AI model development for three years while leaving states room to regulate deployment and use.
Microsoft shows seven MAI models to reduce OpenAI reliance
At Build, Microsoft presented seven in-house models, including MAI-Thinking-1, a 35B active-parameter MoE reasoning model trained from scratch without distillation.