Claude Fable 5 Couldn’t Edit My PowerPoint. Five Prompts Ate My Credits.

Fable 5 failed a basic PowerPoint editing job, burned through my credits, and exposed the widening gap between dazzling AI demos and usable work.

Strivve Wants Your Bank Card to Win the AI Shopping Race

Strivve is extending card-on-file placement to AI shopping agents, turning “top of wallet” into a fight over which issuer gets picked by software.

NextGO Epi Raised €2 Million to Make Power Electronics Wear Gallium Oxide

NextGO Epi raised €2 million to commercialize gallium oxide wafers for high-voltage power electronics. The material is weird, expensive, and genuinely promising.

Signal Ring Turns Your Finger Into a Blood-Pressure Dashboard, Minus the Cuff Drama

Signal Ring puts cuffless blood-pressure tracking on your finger for $399. It is focused, clever, and still waiting to prove the medical promise.

Wonder Raised $650 Million to Make Dinner a Robot-Mediated IPO Problem

Wonder raised $650 million at a $9 billion valuation to scale robot kitchens, food halls, AI, and delivery. The ambition is real. So is the burn.

Kimi K3 Turns the AI Race Into a 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Price War

Moonshot's Kimi K3 brings frontier-level AI, low API pricing, and open weights to the U.S.-China model race. The hardware bill remains enormous.

Hyundai Is Buying All of Boston Dynamics, Because Atlas Needs a Factory More Than Applause

Hyundai is taking full control of Waltham-based Boston Dynamics as Atlas moves from viral robot demos toward factories, manufacturing, and real work.

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.