Anduril, the $61 billion defense startup founded by Palmer Luckey, is expanding into Israel, recruiting local talent, signing deals with Israeli defense firms, and eyeing investments and acquisitions within the country's booming military innovation ecosystem.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick warns ASML that a cutting-edge extreme ultraviolet lithography machine — critical for making advanced chips and never legally permitted for export to China — may have illegally reached the country, posing a major challenge for the Dutch chip-equipment giant under the Trump administration.
DeepSeek closes its first funding round at a $50 billion valuation, cementing its status as China's most valuable AI-only company, while founder Liang Wenfeng demands investors sign a strict no-poaching agreement to protect its talent from rivals like Xiaomi and Tencent.
Former White House AI adviser Dean Ball joins OpenAI to lead a new Strategic Futures team, bringing government expertise to shape the company's frontier AI policy and internal governance.
Anthropic vows its blocked frontier AI models, Mythos and Fable 5, will be restored 'in coming days' after a White House security directive halts global access, with Korea at the center of the controversy following a Chinese-linked telecom company allegedly triggering the U.S. export block.
Bipartisan lawmakers are demanding answers from the Commerce Department over its June 12 decision to impose export controls on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 AI models, warning the move could set a sweeping new precedent for frontier AI regulation across the entire sector.
Cyber warfare startup Twenty reaches a $1 billion valuation after securing $100 million in Series B funding led by Accel, as the U.S. military-contracted company accelerates its mission to 'industrialize cyber warfare' amid escalating threats from China and Russia.
Tech giants and world leaders clash at the G7 Summit in France over who controls AI's future, as US export restrictions spark geopolitical tensions and a fierce debate erupts over whether a small elite or the global public should decide the fate of transformative artificial intelligence.
Estonia becomes the first country in the world to assign personal ID numbers to AI bots, a landmark regulatory move aimed at controlling AI access and authority as governments race to manage the rapid legal implications of artificial intelligence.
The Trump administration forces Anthropic's Claude offline after a trust-shattering dispute over the AI company allegedly sharing technology with a suspected China-linked firm, with sanctions and export controls having been under consideration for weeks prior.