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Virgin Voyages Launches Agentic AI Crew Assistant Rovey

Virgin Voyages with Google Cloud debuts Rovey, an AI crew assistant that tailors cruise bookings and cuts friction across end-to-end passenger journeys

Marloo raises $10M led by Blackbird Ventures to replace the AI notetaker with an AI operating system for financial advisers

Blackbird is doubling down: it led both the pre-seed and now the seed, and now holds 34% of the company. Icehouse Ventures also participated. The founders -Hardy Michel, Shakeel Lala, and Ben Robertson, retain ~27% each. US expansion is next.

OpenAI breaks free of Microsoft's cloud

With its newest partnership deal OpenAI gets the cloud freedom Anthropic always had.

Read Amazon's 6 internal tenets for AI adoption: 'Cutting edge, not bleeding edge'

Amazon's AI-native strategy prioritizes practical AI adoption, emphasizing balance in speed, cost, and control.

Bain & Temenos Research: How is AI Reshaping Banking?

Research from Bain and Temenos reveals how cloud cores, AI and agents will help automate and reshape operations to deliver hyper-personalised services

Redpine raises €6.8M led by NordicNinja to build a licensed data API for AI agents

The round brings total raised to €9 million. Investors from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Spotify backed the seed. The platform operates as a headless API that lets AI agents query and pay for premium licensed datasets in real time, on a token-based model. Competitors include Scale AI, Appen, and Defined.ai, all annotation-first; Redpine is API-native.

I let my 5-year-old make a game with AI. He picked up coding skills

She let her 5-year-old vibe code a game. Her son had no technical vocabulary, but he managed to prompt the AI and pick up key skills.

Axios Finish Line: Prompt like a pro

Anyone can prompt AI with greater sophistication and confidence and get greater results.

Put it in pencil: NASA's Artemis III mission will launch no earlier than late 2027

SpaceX and Blue Origin tell NASA their lunar landers will be ready for Artemis III in late 2027.

Introducing Advanced Account Security

An advanced set of protections against unauthorized access to ChatGPT accounts, Codex, and the sensitive information they can contain.

Exa and Google Partnership

Exa is now available on Google Cloud through Vertex AI grounding and Gemini Enterprise's Agent Marketplace.

Claude for Creative Work

Creative professionals look to technology to expand what's possible in their work. Claude can't replace taste or imagination, but it can open up new ways of working—faster and more ambitious ideation, a more expansive skill set, and the ability for creatives to take on larger-scale projects. AI can also help shoulder the parts of the creative process that eat up time by handling repetitive tasks and eliminating manual toil. Key to both these goals is integrating Claude into the tools the creative industry already knows and trusts.