OpenAI hires senior engineers from rivals Tesla, xAI, and Meta, a strategic counter-move in the escalating AI talent war over critical infrastructure talent.

Meta deepens its AI glasses push with a $3.5B investment in Ray-Ban's parent company, EssilorLuxottica, while poaching top talent from Apple and OpenAI.

Google's new Android update enables Gemini AI to access third-party apps by default, overriding user settings and sparking widespread privacy concerns.

Replit partners with Microsoft, integrating with Azure and its Marketplace. The move challenges Replit's long-standing partner, Google Cloud.

Anthropic proposes a 'Secure Development Framework' for frontier AI, urging public safety disclosures to tackle the industry's growing trust and safety crisis.

Microsoft Teams launches a public preview with threaded conversations, multiple emoji reactions, and new productivity tools to streamline workflow and collaboration.

Apple's AI division suffers a major blow as top engineering manager Ruoming Pang defects to Meta, the latest move in an aggressive, high-stakes talent war.

OpenAI is implementing a major security overhaul with biometric access and offline systems, a response to allegations of IP theft and corporate espionage by Chinese rival DeepSeek.

OpenAI is boosting its stock-based pay to over $4.4B to fend off Meta's aggressive talent raids, revealing the steep financial cost of the AI talent war.

Alibaba has released WebSailor, a new open-source AI web agent designed for complex reasoning, claiming state-of-the-art performance that closes the gap on proprietary models.

Apple has formally appealed the EU's €500M fine over App Store anti-steering rules, escalating its legal battle against the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

AI cloud provider CoreWeave acquires crypto-miner Core Scientific in a $9B all-stock deal, securing over 2.3 GW of power for its AI data center expansion.

Microsoft has added preview support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to its Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, aiming for universal AI agent interoperability amid rising security concerns.

Huawei's AI lab denies claims from research group HonestAGI that its Pangu model is a copy of Alibaba's Qwen, based on a novel 'fingerprint' analysis.

Microsoft and Nvidia race to $4T, but Microsoft's AI strategy faces huge risks from its OpenAI feud, chip delays, and rising cloud competition. A deep dive.

Microsoft has open-sourced its popular GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, a key step towards a transparent, community-driven AI editor.

Researchers from prominent universities worldwide are hiding secret commands in their academic papers to trick AI-powered review systems into giving positive feedback. An investigation first reported by Nikkei found at least 17 papers on the arXiv preprint server using...

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