Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of a pattern of misconduct to recruit Apple employees and obtain confidential information.
Japan’s government and 44 firms, including SoftBank, Sony, NEC, and Honda, will spend up to 1 trillion yen ($6.2B) over five years to build Noetra, a sovereign AI for robots and factory floors.
80% of business and technology leaders expect data and software budgets to increase in 2027 due to AI-related price hikes and usage-based billing.
AWS Builder Center celebrated its first anniversary with expanded features including sandbox environments, workshops, and a Builders’ Library, now hosting 6,448 articles and 10.4M page views.
83% of enterprises report GPU utilization at or below 50%, indicating significant idle capacity.
India’s smartphone shipments fell 10% year-over-year in Q2 2026 as memory chip shortages and higher costs reshaped the market.
Databricks closed a new funding round valuing the company at $188 billion, led by Coatue, with the round expected to close later in 2026.
Energy-sector IPOs raised $12.6 billion in the first half of 2026, the highest half-year total since 1999.
Microsoft is coaching sales teams to position its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Applied Computing raised a $20M Series A led by KBR and including Databricks Ventures to build a foundation AI model for oil, gas, and petrochemical facilities.