The Top AI News Stories Today

AfterQuery, an AI model-training startup backed by Y Combinator, has raised funding that values the company at $3.2 billion, just five months after its Series A in April at a $300 million valuation. The round marks a tenfold increase in valuation in half a year and positions AfterQuery as Y Combinator's fastest-ever unicorn. Source OpenAI

Nvidia invested $3.5 billion into MediaTek, a Taiwanese chipmaker. The investment signals Nvidia's strategy for remaining essential to AI infrastructure as major technology companies begin building their own AI chips in-house. Source Blue Voice, founded by a Harvard Law dropout, raised $6 million to build an AI legal assistant tailored for police officers. The system

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on Flock cameras, a manufacturer of AI-powered surveillance systems, as backlash over the technology mounts. The freeze came ahead of a Texas Tribune investigation revealing the state had spent over $30 million on Flock cameras, with much of that money raised by adding a $1 fee to

Sony Music and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, seeking damages for "tens of thousands" copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped from the material used to

Neocloud Lambda, an infrastructure firm, has raised $1bn in private debt to purchase Nvidia AI chips for leasing to Microsoft. The financing underscores the capital intensity of the artificial-intelligence boom, as companies race to secure cutting-edge hardware to meet surging demand from cloud customers. Source A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration illegally designated