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Agentic AI Startup Lyzr Raises $14.5 Million at $250 Million Valuation as Enterprise Demand Quintuples Worth in Four Months

Father Sues Google After Gemini AI Allegedly Fueled Son's Fatal Delusion and Psychotic Break Leading to Suicide

Lawsuit claims Google designed Gemini to maximize engagement regardless of psychological harm, recruited ChatGPT users after OpenAI retired GPT-4o linked to similar deaths

Sheffield Student Uses AI Text-to-Speech to Preserve Manx Language for 2,200 Remaining Speakers on Isle of Man

Chris Bartley builds speech recognition and text-to-speech tools to ease transcription burden on native speakers of critically endangered Gaelic language

OpenAI Revenue Hits $25 Billion Annualized as Enterprise Expansion Accelerates 17% From Year-End

ChatGPT maker reports $25B annualized revenue in February while preparing for potential $1 trillion IPO as Anthropic closes gap at $9B

Microsoft Warns Hackers Using Agentic AI to Automate End-to-End Cyberattacks at Machine Speed

Threat intelligence report reveals North Korean groups deploying AI agents for reconnaissance, infrastructure provisioning, and malware development in plain English commands

AI Chatbots from Meta, Google, and OpenAI Direct Vulnerable Users to Illegal Online Casinos and Bypass Gambling Safeguards

Guardian investigation reveals ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI, and Microsoft Copilot recommend unlicensed offshore casinos while undermining UK's GamStop self-exclusion system

Pentagon Formally Notifies Anthropic of Supply Chain Risk Designation as Claude Powers Iran Operations

Microsoft Expands Sovereign Cloud to Run Large AI Models in Fully Disconnected Environments as Governments Demand Data Independence

China Unveils "AI+" Five-Year Plan at National People's Congress Embedding Artificial Intelligence Across Every Economic Sector

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.3 Instant to Fix "Cringe" Responses, Teases GPT-5.4 Hours Later as Users Spot Testing in Arena

$30M from Andreessen Horowitz to Replace Enterprise Procurement Teams with AI Agents

Trump Convenes Tech Giants for AI Data Center Power Pledge as Grid Crisis Threatens Midterm Elections

AI Startups Deploy Dual-Tier Valuation Pricing to Manufacture Unicorn Status as VCs Warn of Bubble Behavior

Apple Unveils MacBook Air M5, Budget MacBook Neo, and iPhone 17e in Three-Day Product Blitz

Alibaba Qwen Tech Lead Junyang Lin Steps Down Day After Qwen 3.5 Launch as Multiple Leaders Exit

OpenAI Builds Internal GitHub Alternative After Service Disruptions Strain Microsoft Partnership

SMACK Technologies Raises $32M for Defense AI Lab as Former Marines Build "Decision Dominance" Models

Brown University Study: ChatGPT and AI Chatbots Systematically Violate Mental Health Ethics Standards

Anthropic Acquires Computer-Use Startup Vercept After Meta Poached Co-Founder for $250M Salary

South Korea and Singapore Launch $300M AI Fund to Challenge US-China Dominance in Deep Tech

Amazon Invests $50 Billion in OpenAI at $840B Valuation as Part of Historic $110B Funding Round

DeepMind's Genie 3 and NVIDIA Cosmos Hit 2M Downloads as World Models Race Eclipses LLM Hype

Google launches real-time interactive 3D world model publicly while NVIDIA platform surges and OpenAI reportedly triggers "code red" over spatial capabilities gap

CNN Analysis: Block Layoffs Prove AI Jobs Fear Real, But Economic "Doom Loop" Remains Overblown

Financial analysts split on whether AI-linked cuts herald broader trend or represent pandemic overcorrection as historical precedent suggests tech increases employment

Yann LeCun Raises $586M at $3.5B Valuation Betting World Models Will Beat LLMs to AGI

Meta's former Chief AI Scientist left to launch startup challenging industry's LLM obsession, seeking massive pre-launch valuation for "world model" alternative

500 Protesters March Through London's AI Hub in Largest Anti-AI Demonstration Yet

UK's first "March Against the Machines" targeted OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta offices demanding democratic control and pause on frontier AI development