AI usage keeps climbing, but spending has stalled. Price cuts and smarter cost controls among the biggest spenders could challenge investor assumptions…
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After blocking Muse, Amazon now lets users text Alexa to help them shop
Amazon said that the feature will roll out to millions of users in coming weeks.
Box taps Nvidia’s Nemotron for new agent-first content retrieval system
The system can supposedly answer queries four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used.
Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying?
Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
Physicl raises $10M to make the digital world real enough for robots
Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
Underdog shows off a 32MB speech model in new demo
Despite its small size, Underdog’s new model can generate both speech and music.
Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M
Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.
After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming
Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage
The tokenmaxxing frenzy has been short-lived as bills for said tokens came due, and companies decided that token rationing might be a more fiscally…
AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress — here’s how they fared
AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.