ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push

ServiceNow’s investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.

Would You Bring A Dead Loved One Back As An AI Robot?

Ultra-realistic humanoid robots could soon recreate the faces, voices and behavior of real people, including loved ones who have died.

After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe

After IBM’s stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.

I Test-Drove Substack’s New AI Detection Tool, and It Mostly Worked

The publishing platform has integrated Pangram to look for AI.

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google’s cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.

Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the U.S. government could sanction Chinese AI companies after White House officials accused Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable model to develop Kimi K3.

America Says Its AI Has No Kill Switch, But The World Is Hedging

America’s attempt to calm fears of an AI kill switch may be giving foreign governments another reason to build one of their own.

How an OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick’s company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.

Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads

Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of social networking lies in small, pri…