The U.S. Department of Justice and sixteen attorneys general have filed a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of illegally monopolizing the smartphone market by suppressing competition and limiting consumer choice.
AI video startup Pika Labs has officially launched its Pika 1.0 platform to the public and announced an $80 million Series B funding round, positioning itself as a major competitor to OpenAI’s Sora and Runway.
Leaked internal documents from OpenAI have reportedly revealed details of “Astra,” a long-term strategy to develop a sophisticated, proactive AI agent designed to deeply integrate with and manage users’ digital lives.
German auto giant Volkswagen is set to invest up to $5 billion in American EV maker Rivian, establishing a new joint venture to develop a unified software architecture for their next-generation electric vehicles.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 states are suing Amazon, alleging the company used deceptive “dark patterns” to trick millions of consumers into enrolling in its Prime service and deliberately complicated the cancellation process.
AI video pioneer Runway has secured a deal with Google valued at over $100 million, leveraging Google Cloud to train and scale its generative video models amid intensifying competition with OpenAI and other rivals.
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Salesforce has announced the launch of Einstein Copilot Search and a native Data Cloud Vector Database, aiming to ground generative AI responses in trusted company data directly within its platform. This move deepens its enterprise AI capabilities, allowing businesses to build more accurate and secure AI assistants.
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Amazon is adapting its cashierless checkout technology for apparel retail, leveraging a combination of AI-powered computer vision and RFID tags to streamline the shopping experience in stores, starting with the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks.
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Legal tech startup Lexica AI has officially launched with $150 million in funding to develop a specialized large language model aimed at transforming legal research, analysis, and document drafting.
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