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The Vault — AI Edition

Tuesday, May 06, 2026
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Apple Settles Siri Class Action for $250 Million Over Delayed AI Features

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging the company falsely advertised advanced Siri AI capabilit

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Apple Settles Siri Class Action for $250 Million Over Delayed AI Features

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging the company falsely

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Anthropic Teams With Goldman Sachs and Blackstone on $1.5 Billion Enterprise AI Venture

The era of AI consulting as a bolt-on service may already be ending. Anthropic, the maker of the Cla

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OpenAI Raises $4 Billion for Enterprise Joint Venture at $10 Billion Valuation

OpenAI has closed one of the largest enterprise AI deals in history, securing more than $4 billion f

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Cohere and Aleph Alpha Merge at $20 Billion Valuation to Build Sovereign AI Powerhouse

The era of sovereign AI just got its most concrete manifestation yet. On April 24, Canadian AI compa

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Visa Launches Intelligent Commerce Connect for AI Agent Payments Across All Card Networks

The payments giant that processes more than $14 trillion in annual volume has made a striking strate

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Google Tests Remy, a 24/7 Personal AI Agent That Lives Inside Gemini

Google is quietly building the most ambitious personal AI agent to emerge from its labs in years - a

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Meta Builds Hatch AI Agent to Navigate Consumer Apps From Inside Instagram

Meta is building a consumer AI agent that will live inside Instagram and order your dinner, browse E

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OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation

OpenAI has closed the largest private funding round in history, securing $122 billion in committed c

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Anthropic Releases Ten Preconfigured AI Agents for Investment Banks and Insurers

Anthropic is making its most aggressive enterprise play yet, launching a suite of ten preconfigured

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iOS 27 Will Let Users Choose Between Gemini, Claude, and More for AI Features

Apple is about to do something it almost never does: give users a choice about which AI powers their

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Research (3)

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ICML 2026 Accepts Breakthrough Papers on Feature Attribution and Robust Prediction

As the machine learning community digests the results of ICML 2026 record-breaking review cycle, a t

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US Power Demand Hits Record Highs in 2026 as AI Data Centers Drive Unprecedented Surge

The United States is consuming more electricity than at any point in its history, and the insatiable

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Q1 2026 Venture Funding Shatters Records at $300 Billion as AI Dominates Investment

The first quarter of 2026 has rewritten the record books for venture capital. Investors poured appro

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Policy (2)

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EU Digital Markets Act Review Expands to Cover AI Technology Choices on Devices

The European Commission has fired a starting gun on AI regulation through competition law, concludin

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Coinbase Cuts 14 Percent of Workforce as AI Takes Over Code Generation

The era of AI-driven workforce reduction is no longer theoretical. On May 5, 2026, Coinbase announce

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