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- OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the U.S.by Jagmeet Singh on June 26, 2026
The hire marks OpenAI's latest push into India, expanding offices, partnerships and hiring.
- Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia)by Theresa Loconsolo on June 26, 2026
Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending. OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out of single-supplier risk. The goal is less of a
- Russian hackers were behind $2.5 billion hack of Jaguar Land Rover: Reportby Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on June 26, 2026
The hack on car giant Jaguar Land Rover last year was one the most disrupting, damaging, and costly hacks of the last few years.
- Tesla settles FSD crash lawsuit as federal investigations continueby Kirsten Korosec on June 26, 2026
The lawsuit was connected to a fatal 2023 crash involving a vehicle using the company's advanced driver assistance system known as Full Self-Driving.
- TikTok’s road to becoming a super appby Aisha Malik on June 26, 2026
TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.
- It’s not about Anthropic vs. OpenAI anymoreby Russell Brandom on June 26, 2026
AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.
- Xprize founder says ‘humans behave better when they’re being watched’by Sean O'Kane on June 26, 2026
Peter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry Ellison's comments in 2024.
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- Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix thatby Kirsten Korosec on June 26, 2026
Aseon Labs, which came out of Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10 million from Crane Venture Partners and others.
- The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concernsby Lucas Ropek on June 25, 2026
OpenAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of with the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.
- YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speedby Lucas Ropek on June 25, 2026
YouTube Shorts is getting a makeover.
- Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agentsby Marina Temkin on June 25, 2026
Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.
- Polymarket says hackers stole users’ fundsby Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on June 25, 2026
The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party breach.
- Xbox follows Apple with price increases by Lauren Forristal on June 25, 2026
The company says the increases are being driven by rising memory and console storage prices, with costs more than 2.5x higher than previous levels.
- Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeoverby Ivan Mehta on June 25, 2026
The company said it is discontinuing its email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering as users are increasingly handing over the reins of their email to the agents.
- a16z-backed Base Power is offering cheaper electricity to the power grid that needs it mostby Tim De Chant on June 25, 2026
Base Power is skipping the PJM's troubled interconnection queue by placing its batteries at people's homes, offering backup services in exchange.
- Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPTby Julie Bort on June 25, 2026
Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.
- General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real worldby Rebecca Bellan on June 25, 2026
General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop something closer to human intuition.
- Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000xby Russell Brandom on June 25, 2026
Un-0 is an image-generation system tool that shows for the first time how the company's technology can replicate conventional AI systems.
- Hacked Klue says criminals are deleting stolen customer data, but now other hackers are making threatsby Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai on June 25, 2026
Market research company Klue told customers that it believes the hacking group that stole their data is now deleting it. The company, however, warned about a second group of hackers wanting ransom.

