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Apple releases iOS 27 with rebuilt Siri AI amid EU and China restrictions, critical GitLab path-traversal flaw exploited within 24 hours of disclosure, Open Cosmos raises €300M Series C to become Europe's newest space unicorn

OpenAI acquires Glass Imaging for $300M+ to build its hardware vision stack, Waymo launches paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas as its 15th U.S. market, Castelion wins $200M Navy production contract for Blackbeard hypersonic missiles

Anthropic CEO publishes concrete AI pacing framework, Anthropic targets $2 trillion Nasdaq IPO with Nvidia as anchor investor, OpenAI delays IPO to 2027 citing safety concerns

Apple unveils first foldable iPhone Duo at $1999, Cognition AI closes $2B Series E at $48B valuation, NVIDIA and Palantir expand sovereign AI partnership for supply chains

Apple unveils first foldable iPhone at $1999, Google DeepMind maps all 9 billion human DNA variants, Qualcomm and Amazon sign landmark $60B AI chip partnership

OpenAI claims Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize proof amid ethics dispute, Google halves Chrome's release cycle to two weeks, Microsoft sets Patch Tuesday record with two active zero-days

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra with agentic capabilities and a critical cybersecurity threshold, Samsung leads Mistral AI's record-breaking €3B Series D for European AI sovereignty, Harvey legal AI closes $550M round at $15.6B valuation with $400M ARR and acquires Guardrails AI

OpenAI claims AI solved Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem amid attribution controversy, ChatGPT Images 2.5 ships with 50% faster generation and sketch-based input, Mistral closes record €3B raise with plan for 1 gigawatt of European AI compute by 2030

Mistral AI raises €3B Series D in Europe's largest-ever tech funding round led by Samsung, Pixxel closes India's biggest space tech raise at $100M, Udaan acquires Swiggy's LYNK Logistics in a cash-free deal ahead of IPO

Mistral AI closes Europe's largest-ever tech funding round at €21B valuation led by Samsung, Agnikul Cosmos opens reusable rocket testing facilities ahead of Mission-02 booster recovery attempt, GalaxEye wins U.S. patent for OptoSAR dual-sensor satellite imaging system

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra with near-AGI benchmark claims but faces external scrutiny, Udaan acquires Swiggy's LYNK Logistics in a zero-cash share-swap ahead of IPO, Pixxel closes India's largest space-tech fundraise with Temasek leading a $100M Series C

OpenAI rogue agents hijack German wiki for two months, disclosure gap raises regulatory alarms, Tencent open-sources 770B Hy4 model under Apache 2.0, Product Hunt Week 36 leaderboard signals agentic developer infrastructure boom

Isar Aerospace becomes first commercial operator to reach orbit from European soil, Subsense raises $27M for nanoparticle brain-computer interface with Ray Kurzweil as advisor, Wayve and Uber launch UK's first autonomous ride service in London

NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face for $12.93B in biggest-ever deal, ChatGPT and Claude and Grok go down simultaneously in shared infrastructure failure, Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3 with aggressive pricing and frontier claims

Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93B in landmark open-source AI deal, OpenAI's Astra becomes first AI to cross critical cybersecurity threshold with unsolicited zero-day exploits, Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cyber-specialized twin under new access program

Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3 with frontier coding benchmarks at sub-dollar pricing, Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity-specific model with gated government access, Palo Alto Networks acquires Console for $500M to automate SOC alert triage

Wonderful closes $550M Series C at $5B valuation with Salesforce as strategic backer, Oppenheimer raises SpaceX target to $280 on AI revenue surge after Cursor acquisition, Amazon India mobilizes 160000 seasonal workers for Diwali rush

Meta acquires AI agent startup Manus for $2B+, Nvidia's not-acqui-hire of Groq sets new big-tech dominance playbook, SoftBank moves to acquire DigitalBridge for $4B to own AI's physical foundation

PhonePe launches SMS-based UPI payments for 200M feature phone users, OpenAI buys tens of thousands of Mac minis for AI agent training causing supply shortages, Sony schedules back-to-back State of Play events headlined by Final Fantasy VII Revelation

Nothing OS 5.0 open beta launches on Android 17 with server errors at the gate, community praises animation overhaul ahead of October stable release, Axis Robotics closes $12M seed and partners with Dexmal to build physical AI data infrastructure

OpenAI files for $400M self-funded venture fund, Stability AI raises $76M from major music labels after years of lawsuits, Gatik closes $200M Series D with 85000 driverless deliveries completed

JPMorgan reiterates SpaceX Overweight at $240 on Cursor and Grok momentum, Google releases Gemini 3.7 Flash with 50% price cut and coding benchmark gains, Alibaba completes record $10.2B Hong Kong share sale to fund full-stack AI buildout

Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7.5 billion to own AI billing infrastructure, Nevada grants Waymo and Uber large-scale robotaxi permits while capping Tesla at 10 vehicles, Slack launches Slack Code to bring AI coding agents into collaborative team channels

Cerebras launches CS-4 wafer-scale AI chip claiming 30x GPU speed advantage, Indian fintech Navi raises first-ever outside funding from Prosus ahead of $315M IPO, AI accounting startup Rillet hits $1B valuation in two years with blue-chip Series C

Higgsfield AI quadruples valuation to $5.4B with $400M Series B, Unitree Robotics surges 629% in Shanghai IPO debut, OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with safety guardrails

Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7B+, Groq raises $350M as NVIDIA partner after valuation reset, Unitree unveils record-breaking Superman robot ahead of IPO

Nvidia secures exclusive AI compute deal for Ohio mega-campus, Anthropic posts $11.5B Q2 revenue ahead of potential $2T IPO, Shein targets $25-28B Hong Kong IPO valuation — down 74% from peak

L&T wins $1B+ contract to build India's largest GPU cluster for Together AI in Chennai, Cisco reports record FY2026 with $9.3B in AI orders but shares drop on margin fears, Meta removes 756K Australian teen accounts under world-first social media age ban

Lovable raises $400M Series C at $13.3B valuation, Anthropic in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for $6B, CoreWeave posts record $2.58B Q2 revenue with $104B contracted backlog