Hong Kong and Singapore regulators have sought clarification from Standard Chartered after CEO Bill Winters said the bank plans to replace “lower-value human capital” with technology. The scrutiny follows the lender’s plan to cut more than 7,000 jobs over four years.
The founders of AI startup Manus are exploring ways to unwind Meta’s multibillion-dollar acquisition after Chinese regulators ordered the deal reversed. Options reportedly include raising fresh capital and pursuing a Hong Kong IPO.
AMD will invest more than $10 billion across Taiwan’s semiconductor ecosystem to strengthen AI chip manufacturing and packaging technologies. The move supports deployment of the company’s next-generation Helios AI server platform in 2026.
Polish startup Viktor has raised $75 million in a funding round led by Accel to expand its AI-powered digital employee platform. The company says its autonomous AI agents can manage operational tasks across enterprise tools for weeks at a time.
OpenAI says one of its unreleased reasoning models solved a major combinatorial geometry problem first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. The result challenges a decades-old mathematical conjecture and marks a new milestone for AI-assisted research.
Anthropic is projected to generate $10.9 billion in Q2 revenue, potentially marking its first profitable quarter.
OpenAI is preparing to confidentially file for an IPO that could become one of the largest public offerings in history.
Standard Chartered plans to eliminate more than 7,000 jobs as the bank accelerates automation and AI adoption across operations.
Figma introduced a new AI design agent that can generate interfaces, edit designs, and automate creative workflows using natural language prompts.
Anthropic has hired prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy as the company accelerates efforts to compete with OpenAI and Google.
Google has unveiled a major redesign of Search powered by Gemini and AI agents, replacing traditional link-based results with interactive experiences, persistent AI assistants, and customizable mini apps.
Google has launched Antigravity 2.0 with a new desktop app, CLI tool, and SDK for building AI coding agents and automated workflows. The update expands Google’s push into agentic software development powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash.
Google has introduced native Android app generation inside Google AI Studio, allowing users to build Kotlin-based Android apps through conversational AI workflows. The company also announced new AI-driven app discovery features tied to Gemini and the Play Store.
Google has introduced Gemini Omni Flash, a multimodal AI model for generating and editing videos from text, images, audio, and video inputs. The launch expands Gemini into AI-native video creation and conversational editing workflows.
Google has introduced the Gemini 3.5 family, starting with Gemini 3.5 Flash, a faster AI model focused on coding and agentic workflows. The company says the model outperforms Gemini 3.1 Pro in complex software engineering and AI agent benchmarks.