Iceland's Sowilo raised pre-seed funding for Catecut as Shopify data shows AI shopping agents already outconverting Google search for fashion retailers.
Andy Burnham dissolved DSIT into a new business department in his first reshuffle, even as Kanishka Narayan became Britain's first cabinet-level AI minister.
Anthropic's record settlement caps its book piracy bill, but the same pirated library now anchors a $3 billion music lawsuit still in court.
Anthropic's Record a Skill turns screen recordings into reusable Claude automations, mirroring RPA vendors' pitch and reviving the privacy fight Microsoft's Recall faced.
Humanoid's $152 million Series A values the London startup at $1.35 billion, betting wheeled robots beat bipedal rivals to factory floors first.
Cascade's $3.5 million seed round funds AI that flags construction bids before RFPs post, but the head start still favors firms that can pay for it.
A congressman's viral hearing clip forces a Smithsonian director to defend a chart that echoes one her sister museum pulled six years ago.
ChromeOS 150 adds Gemini classroom locks and PIN sign-in as Google closes a Chrome Apps kiosk migration first flagged back in 2016.
A stuck Vancouver rail bridge, one copper smelter and a distant war are reshaping Canada's commodity exports faster than any trade deal.
Small-business loan rates hit a four-year low in June, but the Fed has not cut rates in 2026, and Europe's central bank just raised its own.