Google to pay SpaceX $920M monthly for AI compute

Apple's WWDC presentation featured mostly conventional AI features matching competitors' offerings, but the company's approach to AI-powered Shortcuts and integration with Safari tabs represents a more distinctive direction. The feature set announced largely mirrors existing capabilities in Android, Claude, and ChatGPT rather than breaking new ground. Developer betas of iPadOS 26 are now available for testing.

Databricks is in talks to raise new funding at a valuation between $165 billion and $175 billion, up from its $134 billion valuation in a late 2025 round. The database management software company could launch the funding round within the next month. The 13-year-old company continues to remain private, raising successive rounds of capital rather than pursuing a public listing.

AI agents deployed across enterprises fail to share corrections and learnings between team members, creating isolated versions of the same tool that never sync. Asana and other platforms are building shared memory architectures to solve this problem, but the challenge of storing, controlling, and maintaining consistency across multi-agent workflows remains largely unsolved. According to Asana research, 75% of knowledge workers use AI on the job, yet only 5% of companies report productivity gains, partly because agents lack enterprise context and shared learning.

The U.K. is advancing its sovereign AI ambition through expanded compute infrastructure and government-backed funding. Over the past year, the number of AI cloud providers planning U.K. deployments has doubled, with Nebius, CoreWeave, BT, and Nscale announcing major infrastructure projects. The Sovereign AI Fund is backing homegrown startups including Cosine, Cursive, Doubleword, and Ineffable Intelligence, which are developing coding platforms, self-improving systems, inference optimization, and reinforcement learning infrastructure on the Isambard-AI supercomputer.