**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**

⚖️ Inside the Musk v. Altman OpenAI Trial
Newly revealed exhibits from the Musk v. Altman trial shed light on OpenAI’s early history, internal emails, and disputes over its mission and governance.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920775/evidence-exhibits-elon-musk-sam-altman-openai-trial

☁️ Enterprise AI Adoption Accelerates at Big Tech
Google Cloud topped $20B in quarterly revenue despite capacity limits, while Microsoft reported over 20M paid Copilot users actively using AI in workplace tools.

Google Cloud surpasses $20B, but says growth was capacity-constrained

🪖 Defense Startups Push AI Into the Battlefield
Scout AI and Firestorm Labs raised major funding to deploy AI-powered autonomous vehicles and portable drone factories for future military conflicts.

Colby Adcock’s Scout AI raises $100M to train its models for war: We visited its bootcamp

💬 New Consumer Apps Blend Humans and AI
Shapes launches AI-powered group chats mixing humans and AI characters, while Uber expands into hotel bookings using AI-driven personalization.

Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats

🐧 Linux Community Pushes Back on Built-In AI
Ubuntu’s plan to integrate AI features has sparked backlash from Linux users demanding opt-outs or ‘kill switches’ to disable AI entirely.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/920723/linux-ubuntu-ai-features-ai-kill-switch

🧠 Programming Languages and Tools Built for AI
The Vera programming language is designed specifically for LLMs to write and verify code, highlighting a shift toward machine-first software design.
https://github.com/aallan/vera

🔐 AI Security Risks in Enterprise Tools
A vulnerability in Ramp’s Sheets AI showed how agentic AI tools can exfiltrate sensitive financial data, underscoring new security challenges.
https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/ramps-sheets-ai-exfiltrates-financials

🚗 AI Investment Expands Into the Physical World
BMW i Ventures launched a $300M fund focused on agentic and physical AI, targeting robotics, autonomous vehicles, and industrial automation.

BMW i Ventures has a new $300M fund and AI is riding shotgun

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