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Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections
President Donald Trump signedan executive orderon Tuesday designed to give the government a chance to review powerful AI models before they are released. The order asks certain AI companies to voluntarily submit their new models to the government for testing or evaluation 30 days before releasing the products to the public. A previous draft of the order had called for a voluntary review up to 90 days in advance, though AI industry insiders had pushed for something closer to a two-week window. Trump had been slated to sign the more demanding version of the order in late May, butdelayedafter industry pushback, including from venture capitalist and former White House AI czarDavid Sacks. The president said at the time that he didn’t want to do anything to get in AI firms’ way of leading against China. “Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the creation of a mandatory governmental licensing, preclearance, or permitting requirement for the development, publication, release, or distribution of new AI models, including frontier models,” reads the order, published Tuesday. Trump had planned to sign the EO with a bevy of Silicon Valley’s top CEOs in attendance, but ended up signing the current version privately. In addition to the voluntary governmental AI model review, the EO directs the Department of Justice to treat crimes like AI-assisted hacking and unauthorized access as a high-priority enforcement area. This isn’t the president’s first EO on AI. Last December,Trump signed an orderdirecting the development of “one rulebook,” or a national AI policy framework, intended to preempt state AI laws.
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Anthropic Expands Project Glasswing to 150 Organisations Across 15 Countries
The new group includes organisations from sectors such as power, water, healthcare, communications and hardware.
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Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI
Impulse Space, a startup founded by SpaceX engine guru Tom Mueller to build highly-maneuverable spacecraft, announced a $500 million Series D this week that it will use to hire as many as 200 new employees. The round, led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC, with participation from Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Linse Capital, reflects investor interest in space and defense tech as the U.S. government hurls cash at national security problems and SpaceX gears up for its IPO. Impulse is focused on in-space mobility. The company has developed a highly maneuverable platform called Mira that is targeted at U.S. Space Force buyers. It’s also building Helios, a vehicle designed to carry satellites rapidly to high orbits after they are dropped off in space closer to Earth. President and COO Eric Romo told TechCrunch that the new capital will help the company build and test more space vehicles and emphasized the company’s hiring plans at a time when aerospace talent is in high demand. While the company’s software teams are adopting AI coding tools, Romo said that when it comes to solving engineering problems in the real world, deep learning models aren’t quite ready for prime time. As the 13th employee at SpaceX back in 2003, Romo’s job was creating computer simulations of the company’s engine design to assess its performance. “I considered it success if I got within 20% of the right answer, because the simulations were just not that good,” Romo said. “They’ve improved, but they’ve not improved that much, and so there’s not really any substitute for designing the thing, analyzing the thing, building it, and then getting it on the test stand.” Romo suspects AI tools for hardware design may be slower to arrive because the right training data is hard to find, compared to the amount of text and code available on the internet to train LLMs. “If you want to go, say, find the best designs for a turbo pump seal package in the world, you’re not going to find those online,” he points out. Impulse started with a focus on propulsion and evolved to build spacecraft, requiring the company to add more expertise in the form of engineers who build vehicle structures and flight computers. One reason the company recently opened an office in Colorado is that aerospace talent has more options today — instead of just going to Los Angeles, engineers can find work in Seattle, Denver, or Texas. Next up for the company is another launch of its Mira spacecraft, which made its third flight late last year. That flight wasn’t without incident — a problem with its navigation system led it to expend much of its propellant early on. Romo said the company is prepping a new Mira mission that is expected to launch before the end of the year.
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ZeroDrift raises $10M to protect AI models from themselves
As enterprises troubleshoot their AI systems, governance has emerged as a key challenge. Some are taking a dual approach: One model to handle incoming queries, and another to keep the first one from getting into trouble. That’s the premise ofZeroDrift, a new AI compliance service that on Tuesday said it had raised $10 million in a seed funding round that saw investments from a16z Speedrun, Reign Ventures, PitchDrive Ventures, and U&I Ventures, among others. The company deals entirely with the second part of the system, sitting between AI models and end users to flag and replace any messages that might present a compliance problem. It might seem strange to build an AI tool to correct other AI systems’ mistakes, but ZeroDrift says its system has a few architectural advantages over the models it will be correcting. The system is triggered by conventional programs that deterministically apply known compliance standards like SOC 2 or GDPR, and the LLM only comes into play once a message has been flagged, rewriting a compliant version of the same message. “We’re able to identify, deterministically, what are all the regulated areas, what’s the violation that’s being broken, and then we have LLMs that can do the rewrites,” CEO Kumesh Aroomoogan says. Critically, the company says its entire system can be run with lower latency and more reliability than a conventional LLM. This is what ZeroDrift touts as its primary advantage over big labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, which are often already present in the underlying system. The most obvious use case is for AI chatbots, which are already deployed in front of consumers where there can be serious consequences for rogue answers. But Aroomoogan sees a much larger total addressable market, potentially spanning AI-generated messages that are generated only within automated systems that humans will never see. So far, it’s a relatively small market, but it’s one that will grow as AI proliferates. If the fundraise is any indication, there’s a lot of pent-up demand for such products. “It was probably the fastest fundraising I’ve done in my life,” Aroomoogan says, crediting Andressen Horowitz for helping structure the seed round. “We closed within three weeks, and we will be oversubscribed by 3x on the amount.”
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Cricketer KL Rahul Partners With str8bat to Launch AI-Powered Batting Platform
The partnership brings KL Rahul’s batting philosophy to str8bat’s AI platform allowing players to learn from professional-level insights tailored to their game.
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Coforge Launches Nexa Agentic Platform for Insurers
Nexa aims to automate and streamline underwriting, claims processing, product development and modernisation of legacy systems.
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The Emergence of New Creator Class in India
The government's new AI scholarship programme will depend on how effectively it teaches creators to work alongside rapidly evolving AI systems.
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Cadence Launches Autonomous AI Engineer for Chip Design
Cadence said the AI agent can cut semiconductor verification cycles from five weeks to less than a day.
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Cars24 Launches Dedicated AI Labs With $20 Million to Back Tech Founders
Pre-owned car platform Cars24 has launched "AI Labs" with a $20 million investment. Partnering with OpenAI, AWS, and ElevenLabs, the initiative will build in-house AI-native products and fund early-stage startups building transformative technologies.
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AirTrunk Plans ₹2 Lakh Crore Data Centre Investment in Maharashtra
The project will be developed at the Raigad Pen Growth Centre, also referred to as Orange City.
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Infosys Expands DNB Bank Partnership to Overhaul Financial Crime Systems
The Indian IT giant will help DNB Bank consolidate anti-money laundering and fraud monitoring systems onto a cloud-based platform.
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Why India’s GCCs Are Moving Beyond Cost Arbitrage
At its Process Intelligence Day India 2026, Celonis pitched a future in which AI-native GCCs drive enterprise decision-making.
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