Waymo upsized its debut private loan to $5 billion to fund its Waymo robotaxi expansion, with PIMCO, Blackstone and Sixth Street among the lenders.
SpaceX's Starmind plan caps orbital AI compute at up to one million satellites, with silicon from the unbuilt Terafab joint venture.
Google's SynthID Detector is now public worldwide in English, checking images, video and audio for AI watermarks from OpenAI, NVIDIA, Kakao and Apple soon.
Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 is a 740M-parameter open model that runs multimodal search for text, images, audio and video entirely on-device.
OpenAI text watermark rolls out to ChatGPT and Codex in the EU, with the API opt-in off by default and detection limited to approved researchers.
The Spotify audiobooks global expansion takes 350,000 titles to 180+ markets by end of 2026, with 12 monthly Premium hours and India live Nov 12.
Ray-Ban Meta hearing aid plans advance as version 129 adds Mono Audio and Audio Balance, ahead of FDA-cleared Hearing Enhancement at $149.99.
Mistral Large 4 enters public preview at $1.36 per million input tokens, with open weights due in late October and a European jurisdiction pitch.
SailPoint data shows 79% of enterprises run AI agents in production while only 2% deploy AI agent identity security, a 40-to-1 governance gap.
Norway smart glasses ban: proposed rule would bar AI camera eyewear from parks, schools, gyms and healthcare sites while permanent rules are drafted.
Collibra acquires Munich's trail ML, adding AI governance automation that classifies rules, verifies controls and blocks policy-breaking agent actions.
The bipartisan AI Agent Accountability Act would make agent operators and developers liable for hacking damage, even as the White House backs self-regulation.
DeepSeek funding round tops $12 billion, led by Tencent and CATL, ahead of an early-2027 IPO that will test China's AI capital concentration.
Apple's macOS 27.2 beta 3 ships touch gesture code for Safari, Photos, Notes and Quick Look, hinting at a first touchscreen MacBook this fall.
OpenAI national security team adds Thomas Lind, ex-White House AI policy lead, as regulators intensify scrutiny of frontier AI and rogue AI agents.
