British AI startup PhysicsX raises $300M in a Series C round led by Singapore's Temasek, catapulting its valuation to $2.4B as demand surges for AI-powered manufacturing solutions for jet engines and semiconductors.
Apple delivers a major Siri overhaul at WWDC, introducing smarter conversational AI powered by Apple Foundation Models co-developed with Google, featuring personal context awareness, Visual Intelligence, and deep native integration across all Apple devices.
Apple launches its third-generation Apple Foundation Models in partnership with Google Cloud, introducing five new AI models — including on-device and server-based variants — that power a redesigned Siri with major performance gains, with human evaluations showing the new cloud model preferred over its predecessor on nearly 65% of prompts.
OpenAI launches the Economic Research Exchange, giving selected researchers access to AI tools and datasets to study how artificial intelligence impacts workers, businesses, and economic inequality, with proposals open now through July 5, 2026.
Apple unveils a rebuilt Siri and sweeping AI integration across all its devices at WWDC 2026, but despite privacy-first guardrails and massive reach, it trails rivals like OpenAI and Google in the rapidly growing AI agents race.
Moonshot AI is seeking up to $2 billion in fresh funding at a $30 billion valuation, marking a staggering 50% jump from its previous round and reflecting a massive surge in investor appetite for Chinese AI startups.
OpenAI announces a bold new phase aimed at making advanced AI accessible to every person on Earth, rejecting concentrated AI power in favor of broad distribution, international coordination, and shared prosperity for all of humanity.
OpenAI confidentially files a draft S-1 IPO registration with the SEC, publicly announcing the move preemptively to get ahead of expected leaks, though no timeline for a potential public offering has been set.
Meta quietly removes a secret face-recognition feature called NameTag from its smart glasses app just one day after investigators expose the hidden code, raising urgent alarms among privacy advocates who warn that stronger consumer data protection laws are desperately needed.
Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4 QAT models that shrink AI memory requirements to under 1GB, making powerful on-device AI accessible on everyday consumer hardware through advanced quantization techniques.