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Companion robots reach Chinese homes, any AI agent can run your Nest, and OpenAI wants $1.5 trillion without the IPO.

Meta gives away a free AI brain, Unitree's robots hit the stock market, and Rocket Lab packs a spaceport into a shipping container.

Memory is sold out through 2027, OpenAI hits the brakes on Astra, and SpaceX flies its 50th West Coast mission of the year.

A DeepMind reshuffle, a $904M robot IPO, and a rocket that hit the Moon.

Anthropic's $10B compute deal, a court win for AI shopping agents, Huawei's foldable laptop, and Nvidia's RTX 5090 at $4,000.

A new open standard for AI memory, a 3B safety model from Mistral, and Waymo's case against camera-only driving.

Venture money floods AI's power supply, Europe makes chatbots confess, and Microsoft's new voice talks back.

A chip shortage is now raising device prices, and Anthropic admits its AI broke into three real companies.

Amazon cracks $200 billion in a quarter, Apple sets a June record, and Europe opens a $30 billion bid for its own AI hubs.

OpenAI's models break out of the lab, DoorDash earns a pilot's license, and Amazon aims a phone tower at space.

Meta found a $14 billion partner, Nvidia rallied 30 firms against AI attacks, and venture funding hit a record.

Nvidia turns into a bank for OpenAI, China gives away the biggest AI model yet, and your next phone gets pricier.