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Sep 1, 2026Products

Partnership Products

OpenAI Connects ChatGPT Health to Epic, Keeping Clinical Record Access Read-Only

The integration moves ChatGPT closer to the patient chart, where it can assemble context for clinicians but is barred from changing the record—a boundary that leaves judgment and documentation with care teams.

3 min

Sep 1, 2026Products

Launch Products

Amazon’s Alexa Adds Update Me When Alerts Before Shoppers Search

The new feature turns releases and announcements around a customer’s interests into shopping notifications, while keeping the first version dependent on direct user setup.

2 min

Sep 1, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Blue Voice Raises $6M to Put Department Policy AI in Police Officers’ Hands

The startup’s pitch is a constrained one: retrieve the governing local rule quickly and show its source, while officers—not the system—retain responsibility for action.

2 min

Aug 31, 2026Infrastructure

Launch Infrastructure

Build American AI Takes Multimillion-Dollar Data-Center Ads to Three Election States

The campaign brings organized political advertising to a facilities fight that has become a flashpoint in contests for Congress and state and local government.

2 min

Aug 31, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Lambda Adds $1B in Short-Dated Debt for Nvidia Chips Bound for Microsoft

The borrowing adds another customer-specific hardware deployment to Lambda’s balance sheet, while its reported equity plans remain unfinished.

2 min

Aug 31, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Clipto Raises $15M at $250M Valuation to Turn Local Files Into AI-Agent Context

The profitable file-search startup says its MCP connection lets authorized AI tools retrieve selected local data. Its bet is that cross-format search can remain a product category even as large platforms build similar features into their own apps.

3 min

Aug 31, 2026Business

Partnership Business

Nvidia Puts $3.5B Into MediaTek to Keep Custom AI Chips in Its Data-Center Stack

MediaTek’s planned accelerators are meant to run beside Nvidia hardware, giving Nvidia’s interconnect and rack architecture a role as customers pursue their own silicon.

2 min

Last week

11 stories

Aug 29, 2026Business

Lawsuit Business

Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic Founders Over Claude Data, Seeking Up to $150,000 Per Work

The publishers’ case reaches beyond Claude’s alleged lyric outputs to the route by which copyrighted material entered Anthropic’s systems—and seeks records that could tie those decisions to its co-founders.

3 min

Aug 29, 2026Products

Benchmark Products

Sanctuary AI Puts Its Robot Brain on Existing Machines After a 99.5%-Plus Test

The company is pitching dexterous automation that can fit installed robot systems, but its automotive wire-plugging result has not yet become a production deployment.

3 min

Aug 29, 2026Infrastructure

Launch Infrastructure

Nvidia Rolls Out Vera Rubin as AI Competition Shifts to Data Traffic

The architecture packages compute with storage and networking hardware, betting that efficiently moving data through large AI systems is becoming its own competitive layer.

2 min

Aug 28, 2026Business

Partnership Business

OpenAI Hires Meta’s Devanathan for Southeast Asia and Australia Growth, Policy

The Singapore-based role combines customer growth with partnerships, operations and regulatory engagement, while OpenAI separately names an India head.

2 min

Aug 28, 2026Policy

Lawsuit Policy

Meta’s Up-to-$18 Billion Deal Carves Out Under-13 Data for Age-Assurance Testing

The agreement bars advertising and optimization uses of the data, but gives Meta protection from specified state claims as it builds a system to identify under-13 users. The FTC’s position remains unresolved.

4 min

Aug 27, 2026Products

Launch Products

Google AI Mode Adds Fare Alerts in 180+ Countries and U.S. Hotel Booking

The conversational search interface now covers more of a travel purchase, while hotel and booking partners retain responsibility for reservations and customer service.

2 min

Aug 27, 2026Policy

Regulation Policy

Bill Gates Calls for Taxes on AI Tokens and Robots, With Jobs Reserved for Humans

The proposal would use taxes and protected roles to shape automation’s labor impact, but it has no governing framework and faces a direct competitiveness objection from the robotics industry.

3 min

Aug 27, 2026Products

Launch Products

Hugging Face Sells a $399 Microduck Robot With Its Training Stack on GitHub

The launch pairs inexpensive hardware with a stated simulation-to-robot workflow, while leaving data handling to the software users install.

2 min

Aug 27, 2026Infrastructure

Regulation Infrastructure

Google Sets February 2027 Android Memory Rules as AI Strains Chip Supply

The new quality requirements put measurable limits around app resource use, while a separate April 2027 rule is meant to keep users signed in when they move phones.

2 min

Aug 27, 2026Products

Launch Products

Plaud One Puts a 4G AI Notetaker in Earbuds, With Agent Features Still Pending

Plaud’s eSIM-enabled case is designed to make conversation capture and remote AI access work without a phone. Buyers can use the recording hardware now, while the larger automation pitch depends on later updates and still-undisclosed agent-credit costs.

3 min

Aug 27, 2026Business

Launch Business

OpenAI Takes ChatGPT Ads to India’s Free and Go Tiers With 50 Brands

The rollout adds a commercial layer to ChatGPT’s large India audience, but the next operational step is a planned ad manager for campaigns meeting a ₹725 daily minimum.

2 min

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