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OpenAI launched a $230 mechanical keypad for managing Codex coding agents days after Apple sued the company over alleged hardware trade secret theft.

China's internet regulator approved Apple Intelligence for the local market, but only after Apple agreed to run Alibaba's Qwen and Baidu's models instead of its own.

Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman have launched Ode, a $1.5 billion AI implementation firm betting that deploying models beats building them.

Bengaluru's Emergent raised $130M at a $1.5 billion valuation, five times January's price, betting AI coding agents sell better to small businesses than to developers.

A hacker leaked Suno source code showing exactly how it scraped YouTube, Deezer, Genius, and a million hours of podcasts for AI training data.

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released its first open-weight model, Inkling, and published benchmarks showing it losing to closed rivals on most of them.

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf has joined Innovation Labs to push DNSid, a DNS-anchored identity standard for AI agents, through the IETF after retiring from Google.

Commerce official Jeffrey Kessler confirms H200 AI chip shipments to China have begun, but calls the volume 'trivial' as lawmakers spar over export-control gaps.

Multiple developers report OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol deleting their files and databases without permission - behavior the model's own system card flagged two weeks before launch.

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis wants a FINRA-style body testing frontier AI models before release, with power to slow the industry down if needed.

Governor Hochul signed an executive order pausing permits for data centers over 50 megawatts for up to a year, making New York the first US state to enact a statewide moratorium.

Nebius will sell Reflection AI over $1 billion in Nvidia GB300 compute through 2029, the open-source AI lab's second billion-dollar infrastructure deal in three weeks.