Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund Situational Awareness sold its public stocks to Citadel after leveraged AI bets collapsed. It keeps its Anthropic stake.

Microsoft is merging Copilot’s chat, coding, Cowork and autonomous agents into a single AI “super app” spanning consumer and enterprise this year.

Friend relaunched its AI-companion pendant with a speaker that talks back, at double the price ($249). The privacy objections have not changed.

Wiz found a “Cosmos Master Key” that could unlock every Azure Cosmos DB database. It is patched, and Wiz’s AI bug-hunter helped find it.

China has threatened retaliation over the US ban on Chinese robot imports, with rare earths and Tesla and Nvidia market access as leverage, NYT reports.

BYD will debut its first humanoid robot, reportedly called Xiao Di, in August, putting service robots in its showrooms as it pushes into embodied AI.

Amazon is winding down most of its Nova AI models to focus on one new frontier model, due at re:Invent this autumn.

ByteDance now makes about $4bn a year from AI, the most any Chinese firm has disclosed, and is folding its Lark app into Doubao and its cloud unit.

Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2 gives one AI model whole-body control of humanoids and lets robots work as a team, though dexterity still lags.

Four core staffers have left Steven Bartlett’s “Diary of a CEO” in five months, as the podcast pushes into the US and builds out its media empire.

Intel is giving stealth startup Rosaic rare access to its Atom chip tech. Rosaic is run by a longtime co-investor of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan.

The EU has opened a €30bn call for up to seven AI gigafactories to rival the US and China, though only ~€1bn is committed and the chips remain American.