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Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom

June 17, 2026 by kamal

The Canadian pension giant will acquire an 8.2% stake in CtrlS, a tech giant that operates more than 15 data centers across India.

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DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation

June 17, 2026 by kamal

With this acquisition, DeepL is opening an office in San Francisco to expand its U.S. business.

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Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027

June 17, 2026 by kamal

This will be the second market to have an Uber robotaxi service outfitted with Lucid EVs equipped with a self-driving system from Nuro.

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Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’

June 17, 2026 by kamal

Pinterest has launched ‘Ask Pinterest,’ an experimental AI-powered shopping app that lets users seek recommendations and inspiration through a conversational interface.

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Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Anthropic’s popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.

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Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective

June 16, 2026 by kamal

In the coming weeks, Apple will move anonymously generated emails addresses to a different domain.

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Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Qualcomm’s CEO said today that the company is working on over 40 new AI hardware designs

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Bug in FIFA World Cup internal system gave anyone ability to modify TV stream

June 16, 2026 by kamal

A security researcher said a flaw in FIFA’s online platforms allowed her to access several internal systems, including one that could have allowed her to take control of the TV stream of every World Cup match.

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Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accompanied by a Pixel Drop that brings Google’s latest AI models to its devices.

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Mobileye’s US robotaxi launch will put it on both sides of the AV business

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Mobileye apparently wants to own some of the robotaxi market, even if that puts it in direct competition with companies it supplies its self-driving system to.

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Rivian cuts hundreds of workers after R2 deliveries start

June 16, 2026 by kamal

The company said the cuts were part of a restructuring meant to help scale to profitability. Rivian recently pushed back its profitability goal to invest in autonomy.

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Sixty percent of U.S. consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds

June 16, 2026 by kamal

WordPress VIP’s latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view AI search as an important referral channel.

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Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple

June 16, 2026 by kamal

African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as investor and partner.

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Robinhood’s note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn’t cutting it

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood’s CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note about layoffs.

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SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T

June 16, 2026 by kamal

SpaceX’s valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

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Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.

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India orders temporary ban on Telegram over exam fraud concerns

June 16, 2026 by kamal

The restrictions include a nationwide ban on Telegram until June 22 and a requirement to disable the app’s message editing feature.

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This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.

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SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

June 16, 2026 by kamal

The deal is supposed to help SpaceX’s struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.

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Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users

June 16, 2026 by kamal

The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a “Your Algo” tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds

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ChatGPT’s market share slips below 50% for first time

June 16, 2026 by kamal

The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662 million and Claude with 245 million.

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Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions

June 16, 2026 by kamal

Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.

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Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties

June 15, 2026 by kamal

AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology’s use in Google’s defense contracts.

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The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

June 15, 2026 by kamal

The Trump administration’s decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn’t immune from U.S. government interference.

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Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms

June 15, 2026 by kamal

Meta announced Monday that it’s rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company’s effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.

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Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

June 15, 2026 by kamal

A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export control restrictions on Anthropic’s models Fable and Mythos, arguing that the order is going to limit the ability of cybersecurity defenders to secure their software and products.

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SpaceX’s biggest-ever IPO just grew to $85.7 billion raised

June 15, 2026 by kamal

SpaceX’s IPO underwriters maxed out their share purchases, adding to an already historic amount of money raised.

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UK unveils sweeping social media ban for users under 16

June 15, 2026 by kamal

The ban would apply to a range of social media platforms including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X.

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Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion

June 15, 2026 by kamal

Salesforce says it wants to use Fin’s team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.

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Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech

June 15, 2026 by kamal

Indian IT services company HCLTech is investing $150 million in the Bengaluru startup.

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