Microsoft Copilot can now do actual work inside your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files

Copilot’s new Agent Mode can draft and restructure Word documents, build formulas and tables in Excel, and update PowerPoint decks, all in real time.

Anthropic surpasses biggest rival OpenAI in secondary market valuation — surges to $1 trillion amid frantic investor interest

Anthropic’s secondary market valuation has reportedly surged to $1 trillion, surpassing OpenAI’s $880 billion, driven by intense investor demand for AI exposure, and highlighting speculative pricing in secondary markets.

SpaceX says it is going to begin manufacturing GPUs — $1.75 trillion IPO listing reportedly includes in-house GPU production

Elon Musk’s SpaceX set to produce ‘own GPUs’ at its own multi-billion fab as the company warns that it may be unable to purchase all the silicon it needs to meet its goals.

OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws
OpenAI’s new image model reasons before it draws

The new model reasons about composition, searches the web for context, generates up to eight coherent images from one prompt, and renders text in non-Latin scripts with near-flawless accuracy. It also took the number one spot on the Image Arena leaderb…

Legora snaps up Stockholm legal research startup Qura

Swedish legal tech unicorn Legora has made its second acquisition in two months, snapping up a Swedish startup specialising in legal research, which has built a search engine for lawyers.Legora has ac…

Google’s Weirdest AI Dataset Yet: Garbage

The search giant had previously created a machine learning data set out of food scraps from its kitchens. Now it’s partnering with Mill, which makes a high-tech trash bin, to use that data to train its AI algorithms.

AI agent designs a complete RISC-V CPU from a 219-word spec sheet in just 12 hours — comparably simple design required ‘many tens of billions of tokens’

AI chip design startup Verkor.io claims that its agentic AI system, Design Conductor, has autonomously produced a complete RISC-V CPU core.

BT, Nscale, and Nvidia announce UK sovereign AI partnership
BT, Nscale, and Nvidia announce UK sovereign AI partnership

Nscale will construct the data centres at existing BT infrastructure sites; BT will provide connectivity. Both companies are founding members of the new UK Sovereign AI Industry Forum. The deal deepens Nscale’s position as a central plank of the UK gov…

Google wants Chrome to be your AI colleague, and it is betting 3.8 billion users agree
Google wants Chrome to be your AI colleague, and it is betting 3.8 billion users agree

Summary: Google announced at Cloud Next 2026 that Chrome is becoming an agentic workplace platform with Auto Browse (autonomous multi-step task completion), Chrome Skills (saveable AI workflows), a persistent Gemini side panel integrated with Workspace…

Google Cloud customer wakes up to $18,000+ bill despite $7 budget, thanks to forgotten API key in published project — attacker put in 60,000+ requests and blasted through $1,400 spending cap

Jesse Davies, an Australian AI consultant and founder of Agentic Labs, was caught unawares when their Google Cloud bill ballooned to more than 2,500 times their initial budget after an unknown API key registered more than …