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Lululemon has invested in the $30 million Series A round of Syntetica, a French startup that developed a novel approach to recycling nylon.

Microsoft is reportedly training its sales team to aggressively downplay competing AI products from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report.

In a dramatic response to a severe privacy backlash, xAI has open-sourced the entire Grok Build codebase under an Apache 2.0 license, just one day after its Grok CLI tool was found to upload entire directories—including SSH keys and password databases—to Google Cloud servers.

Enterprise AI organizations are rapidly consolidating agent orchestration onto model-provider platforms, but a significant gap persists between ambition and reality, with most deployed 'agents' remaining simple chatbot wrappers rather than true multi-step workflows, according to new research from VentureBeat Pulse.

The discovery stems from 11 firmware images, known as shims, that were signed by Microsoft despite being known as defective since at least 2013.