Supply Chain AI Startup Auger Raises $50M Series B
Auger, the AI-driven supply chain startup led by former Amazon executive Dave Clark, has raised a $50 million Series B, bringing its total funding to $150 million.
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Fable 5 Returns Globally After US Lifts 19-Day Export Controls
Anthropic restored global access to Claude Fable 5 on July 1 after the US Commerce Department lifted export controls imposed 19 days earlier, following a jailbreak discovered by Amazon researchers.
Read more →Microsoft Launches $2.5B Frontier Company to Embed AI Engineers in Enterprises
Microsoft committed $2.5 billion and 6,000 engineers to a new subsidiary that stations AI specialists directly inside client organizations, competing with similar offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Amazon.
Read more →UN and ITU Launch AI for Good Global Commission, Led by Kagame and Benioff
The United Nations and ITU announced the AI for Good Global Commission on July 2, assembling 44 founding members — including heads of state and the CEOs of Amazon, Nvidia, and Microsoft — to help ensure AI benefits developing nations and bridges the global digital divide.
Read more →Anthropic Lifts Claude Fable 5 Ban and Proposes Industry Jailbreak Severity Framework
Anthropic is restoring global access to Claude Fable 5 starting July 1, three weeks after a US export control order, and is rolling out a four-criteria jailbreak severity framework developed with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Read more →Amazon, Anthropic and Microsoft Back $500M Nonprofit to Retrain Workers for the AI Era
RAISE US, a nonpartisan nonprofit co-chaired by former US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, launched June 25 with over $500 million from more than 25 companies to retrain American workers displaced by AI.
Read more →Amazon Launches Alexa+ Agentic Ads for In-Conversation Purchases
Amazon's new Alexa+ Agentic Ads format lets customers move from seeing an ad to completing a purchase entirely within a conversation — no app-switching required.
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