Microsoft Bets on DeepSeek V4 to Cut Copilot Costs
Microsoft is shifting Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and testing DeepSeek V4 on Azure, trading 57x cheaper tokens for a geopolitical risk that has not gone away.
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Odyssey Raises $310M as Amazon Bets on World Models
Amazon leads a $310M round into Odyssey, a startup building world models that simulate physics - not just language - with Trainium chip adoption baked in as the price of entry.
AI Label Backlash - 60% of US Consumers Are Turned Off
Two major surveys from WordPress VIP and Gartner find a majority of US consumers are put off by AI labels in brand messaging, even as companies race to build AI visibility for search engines.
ChatGPT Falls Below 50% Market Share for First Time
Sensor Tower's State of AI 2026 report shows ChatGPT's True Audience share fell to 46.4% in May as Gemini and Claude eat into OpenAI's lead.
Alibaba's Qwen-Robot Suite Targets Physical AI Work
Alibaba launches three open-weight models for robot manipulation, navigation, and world prediction, built on a shared Qwen3.5 backbone with open weights.
Anthropic Surveyed 52K Americans - Just 15% Trust AI
Anthropic's first Public Record survey of 51,993 Americans finds 64% fear job displacement, only 15% trust AI companies, and 70%+ support government regulation - with rare bipartisan consensus.
SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60B in Enterprise AI Push
SpaceX signed a merger agreement to acquire Anysphere, maker of AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in stock just four days after the company's record-breaking Nasdaq IPO.
Facebook AI Mode Mines Public Posts With No Opt-Out
Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook, turning billions of public posts into AI-synthesized search answers with no opt-out for the 2 billion daily users whose content powers it.
Sarvam Raises $234M to Power India's Sovereign AI
Bengaluru-based Sarvam hit a $1.5 billion valuation after HCLTech put in $150 million, betting India can build its own AI stack and stop routing sensitive data through American clouds.
Salesforce Buys Fin for $3.6B to Boost Agentforce
Salesforce agrees to pay $3.6 billion for Fin, the AI customer service agent formerly known as Intercom, adding a proprietary model and 30,000 customers to Agentforce.
GLM-5.2 Ships MIT-Licensed, 1M Context, Zero Benchmarks
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 ships with 1M token context, 744B MoE parameters, and MIT license the day after Fable 5 goes offline - but no benchmark numbers at launch.
Grok Build Plugin Marketplace Launches With Six Tools
xAI ships an open plugin marketplace for Grok Build with six launch partners including MongoDB, Vercel, and Sentry, backed by SHA-pinned supply chain security and an open GitHub catalog.
