Google Has to Share Android With Rival AI Assistants. Europe Brought the Clipboard.

Europe ordered Google to open Android and Search data to rival AI services. It is a real competition shift, with privacy risks attached.

T. Rowe Price Just Put a Crypto Variety Pack in Your Brokerage Account

T. Rowe Price launched TKNZ, an actively managed multi-token crypto ETP that gives investors one ticker for a volatile digital-asset basket.

Spectro Cloud Raised $100 Million to Make AI Infrastructure Less Like a Fire Drill

Spectro Cloud’s $100M+ Series D funds the boring software that makes AI infrastructure governable, portable, and slightly less expensive to panic about.

OpenAI Put a $230 Control Panel on the AI Intern’s Desk

OpenAI’s $230 Codex Micro turns AI-agent management into a tactile desktop ritual. It is a niche flex, but the useful kind.

Walden Robotics Raised $300 Million to Put Cambridge Robots on the Factory Floor

Cambridge startup Walden Robotics raised $300 million for trainable factory robots already working at Toyota, making Boston’s physical AI bet concrete.

The Definitive Guide to GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5: Pick Your Expensive Robot Coworker

GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 excel at different work. Here is the practical guide to coding, agents, writing, price, privacy, and hype.

Mio Raised €1.9 Million to Become Slack's AI Chief of Staff

Mio wants to turn Slack into a place where follow-ups actually happen. A slightly unnerving AI coworker pitch with a surprisingly practical wedge.

Huawei Gave the Pura 90s Pro Max a Passport and a 200MP Cannon

Huawei's Pura 90s Pro Max looks like a terrific camera phone with a 200MP telephoto, huge battery, and global-market weirdness that somehow adds to the charm.

Apnimed Got Its Sleep Apnea Pill Into FDA Review, and Cambridge Sees a CPAP Exit Ramp

Apnimed's July 14 FDA filing acceptance puts its Cambridge sleep apnea pill AD109 on track for a February 28, 2027 review decision.

Australia Just Told AI Data Centers to Bring Power, Water, and Manners

Australia launched an Office of AI and proposed national rules for data centers, training data, and copyright. Strange theater, real leverage, and better instincts than usual.

“We Must Act Now” Is Better as a Dark Techno Song

The “We Must Act Now” AI letter warns of historic economic upheaval. Circuit Smith’s dark techno version gives the four sentences a pulse.

CSI Bought Qolo to Give Community Banks Better Payments Plumbing

CSI's Qolo acquisition shows embedded-finance plumbing getting pulled into bank tech stacks as community banks chase real-time treasury and payments tools.