| 6:20 PM • | Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable: A New York State school district is piloting a humanoid robot teacher by the company Realbotix to help students with summer school classes |
| 5:35 PM • | Lorelei Smillie / Bloomberg: US Homeland Security says it seized 30k+ SIM cards in June and July in a nationwide operation it claims dismantled infrastructure used in telephone fraud |
| 5:00 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Netflix says roughly 300 titles used generative AI this year, mostly in post-production, “to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost” |
| 4:25 PM • | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive “authors” proliferate |
| 4:16 PM • | Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $12.56B, vs. $12.59B est., and says it will give fewer engagement updates starting in 2027; NFLX drops 7%+ after hours |
| 4:12 PM • | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Kimi-K3 is now #1 on the Frontend Code Arena benchmark, surpassing Claude Fable 5; the model scored 88.3 on Terminal Bench 2.1, only below GPT-5.6 Sol's 88.8 |
| 3:45 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: DoorDash launches a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, which lets users place orders via an AI agent, available by waitlist to macOS developers in the US and Canada |
| 3:15 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and a feature that lets users create custom digital avatars using a selfie and voice recording |
| 3:00 PM • | Kimi: Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter AI model that it says rivals Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, and plans to release model weights by July 27 |
| 2:50 PM • | Tibo / @thsottiaux: After reports of GPT-5.6 deleting files, OpenAI says the issue most often occurs in full-access mode without sandboxing and it is working to mitigate the risk |
| 2:35 PM • | CoinDesk: Crypto.com raised $400M from Citadel Securities in its first institutional funding round, valuing the Singapore-based crypto exchange at $20B |
| 2:15 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro because the company has been trying to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding |
| 2:10 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds programmatic ads and an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences |
| 1:55 PM • | Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta's Oversight Board says top AI models may be restricting free expression in its first evaluation of LLMs, as it seeks to expand its influence beyond Meta |
| 1:15 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google says users in the US can now link to and interact with some apps in AI Mode, including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music |
| 1:05 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox unveils Build, which lets users create basic games through text prompts directly within its mobile app, powered by Roblox's models and open-source models |
| 12:45 PM • | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Fora, which connects travel agents with travelers and offers agents AI tools, raised a $60M Series D at a $1B valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures |
| 12:25 PM • | Josh Woodward / Google: Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and rolls out an update giving every notebook a secure cloud computer, letting it write and execute code natively |
| 11:45 AM • | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: San Diego-based Self Inspection, which uses AI to assess body damage on a car with as little tech as a smartphone camera, raised $10M led by Sheryl Sandberg |
| 11:35 AM • | Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Filing: a Chinese luggage maker says a fund in which it invested deployed ~$420M for an indirect 0.8265% stake in DeepSeek, implying DeepSeek is valued at ~$52B |
| 11:25 AM • | Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: Visa debuts the Visa Stablecoin Platform, an internal system to help its network of ~15K financial institutions and 200M+ merchants more easily use stablecoins |
| 11:15 AM • | CNET: OnePlus confirms it will no longer operate in North America or Europe but will keep operating in China, while Realme, another Oppo sub-brand, will exit China |
| 11:10 AM • | Reuters: China, Russia, Belarus, Serbia, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, and 22 other countries sign an agreement to create the World AI Cooperation Organization in Shanghai |
| 11:00 AM • | Jason Koebler / 404 Media: A hacker claims to have accessed Suno's user info and source code, showing how it scraped music; Suno says no sensitive info was compromised in a November hack |
| 10:15 AM • | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Runta, which provides isolated sandboxes and guardrails for AI agents to prevent operational risks, raised a $20M seed led by a16z at a $100M+ valuation |
| 9:45 AM • | Financial Times: Chinese AI start-up Moonshot to launch model challenging Anthropic's lead |
| 9:40 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is preparing new iPads, including an iPad mini with an OLED screen by October and refreshed entry-level iPads and iPad Airs for 2027 |
| 9:30 AM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Sable, which is building an AI agent named Aiden that lives on a company's website to run live product demos and more, raised $45M from Sequoia and 8VC |
| 9:25 AM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Grubhub parent Wonder raised a $650M+ Series D at a $9B valuation, bringing its total raised to $3B+ since its founding in 2018, and plans to go public in 2027 |
| 9:20 AM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: 1Password launches a new Claude integration for macOS that lets Anthropic's AI agent sign in to websites without seeing the user's password or 2FA code |
| 9:15 AM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Fireworks, which helps developers access AI chips and open-source models, raised $1.5B at a $17.5B valuation and says it has exceeded $1B in annualized revenue |
| 9:10 AM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Trump Media plans to launch the Truth API on August 1, providing real-time data from trending Truth Social accounts to news organizations and trading firms |
| 8:55 AM • | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Bunkerhill Health, which uses AI agents for hospital tasks like managing wait times, raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla, bringing its total funding to $55M |
| 8:50 AM • | Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Sources detail how xAI has been slowed down by internal chaos as Musk pushed for Grok to match Claude, amid signs it is turning a corner under Michael Nicolls |
| 8:35 AM • | Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: London-based Applied Computing, which is developing AI models for energy operations, raised $20M led by KBR, with participation from Databricks Ventures |
| 8:30 AM • | Éanna Kelly / Sifted: Munich-based Microagi, which collects factory and household data to train humanoid robots, raised $55M led by Hummingbird in Germany's largest ever seed round |
| 8:25 AM • | Sarah Young / Reuters: Ocado's stock drops 13%+, hitting a 13-year low, after it failed to show tangible progress in talks to secure new US partners for its warehouse automation tech |
| 8:20 AM • | Robert Hart / The Verge: The EU issues two decisions under the DMA that order Google to provide rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and some Search data |
| 8:10 AM • | Joe Tidy / BBC: The UK sentences two Scattered Spider members, who pled guilty to an August 2024 Transport for London cyberattack, to five and a half years in prison |
| 7:55 AM • | Jenny Lee / CNBC: Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 Edge, a world model for robots and AI agents to perceive and navigate physical environments in real time, after Cosmos 3's debut in May |
| 7:40 AM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Beacon Security, which offers an agentic security platform, raised a $13M seed and says it has “tens” of large enterprise customers including Cerebras |
| 7:35 AM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta will now notify parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and will contact emergency services if a user might be at risk of suicide |
| 7:25 AM • | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Vital Signals launches the $399 Signal Ring, which it says provides systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings as accurately as a traditional arm cuff |
| 7:20 AM • | Brendan Bordelon / Politico: Filings: Dario Amodei gave $1M in May to Public First, a super PAC advocating for AI safety regulations, seemingly his first seven-figure political donation |
| 7:15 AM • | Bernard Goyder / Bloomberg: Alpaca, which offers brokerage and financial infrastructure, raised $135M in equity and $300M in debt, following a $150M Series D in January |
| 7:10 AM • | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Ofcom report: daily VPN users in the UK jumped to 2.2M, up from 1.2M before the introduction of laws enforcing age limits on pornography sites in July 2025 |
| 7:05 AM • | Axios: Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei published memos in recent weeks that agree on an AI regulatory framework but disagree on the US government's role |
| 6:45 AM • | Madison Mills / Axios: Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs launch a bioresilience program to leverage AI models for pathogen surveillance, vaccine design, and outbreak responses |
| 6:20 AM • | Mizy Clifton / Politico: Ofcom opens an investigation into TikTok over Online Safety Act compliance, citing doubts about the effectiveness of age inference in determining users' ages |
| 5:45 AM • | Bloomberg: A US official says TSMC plans to spend an additional $100B to build four US chip plants, bringing its total pledge to $265B as part of a broader US-Taiwan deal |
| 5:20 AM • | Debby Wu / Bloomberg: TSMC raises its 2026 capex projection from $52B-$56B to $60B-$64B and its revenue growth projection in USD from 30%+ to 40%+ YoY, citing “the AI megatrend” |
| 5:00 AM • | Bloomberg: Uber agrees to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal that values the German food delivery company at ~$14.8B, offering €41.50 per share and buying Prosus' 16.8% stake |
| 2:30 AM • | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo |
| 2:20 AM • | Blake Brittain / Reuters: xAI sues a South Carolina man for allegedly using Grok to generate CSAM, in one of the first cases of its kind brought by an AI company against one of its users |
| 2:10 AM • | Jenny Lee / CNBC: TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$39.45B, net income up 77.4% YoY to ~$21.9B, both above est., and says chips 7nm or smaller were 77% of its wafer revenue |
| 1:30 AM • | Reuters: Data center company Csquare raises $1.05B in its US IPO, selling 50M shares at $21 each, below its marketed range of $23 to $27, valuing the company at ~$3.25B |
| 12:45 AM • | Reuters: Hyundai says it will make Boston Dynamics a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring SoftBank's ~10% stake; Hyundai acquired an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics in 2021 |
| 12:15 AM • | Michael Kan / PCMag: Filing: AST SpaceMobile delays the launch of its satellite-to-phone service to 2027 after the Blue Origin mishap and plans to raise $1B in convertible notes |
| 11:10 PM • | Wall Street Journal: AI execs are bolstering personal security amid rising AI opposition; Liferaft: digital threats against execs and data centers grew 7x from late February to May |
| 10:20 PM • | Fred Lambert / Electrek: Filing: Elon Musk quietly bought Jacksonville, Florida-based APR Energy, which runs mobile gas and diesel turbines like those in Colossus 2, for an implied ~$1B |
| 9:05 PM • | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license, after the tool uploaded user repositories to SpaceXAI's Google Cloud bucket, causing a backlash |
| 7:25 PM • | Marco Chiappetta / Forbes: Cadence unveils AuraStack AI Super Agent, an AI platform for PCB and advanced chip packaging design, with Nvidia, TSMC, and Schneider Electric among early users |
| 6:40 PM • | The Information: Sources: Microsoft security chief Hayete Gallot, who took over in February, has prioritized AI tools, cut several hundred roles, replaced senior execs, and more |
| 5:10 PM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Venture funding of fintech startups grew 22.7% YoY in H1 2026 to $28.6B globally, but deal count fell 25.7% and funding fell 17.3% vs. H2 2025's $34.6B funding |
| 4:45 PM • | Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says Jordan Fish, aka “Cobie”, will now lead the Base app team, after acknowledging some of Base's bets on social features fell short |
| 4:30 PM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: SpaceX's stock fell for a fourth-straight session on Wednesday, briefly dropping below its $135 IPO price for the first time, before closing down 1% at $135.27 |
| 4:25 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple publishes a policy for its upcoming Maps ads: home services ads are banned, medical services ads will be “evaluated on a case-by-case basis”, and more |
| 3:35 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI details GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery so it can fix bugs before wider deployment |
| 3:25 PM • | Liam Denning / Bloomberg: Uber and Waymo are engaged in a DC lobbying battle over AV legislation, with Uber supporting a hybrid human-robotaxi model and Waymo pushing for pure robotaxis |
| 3:05 PM • | Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Dave Brown, AWS SVP of Compute, AI, and Platform, is leaving the company after 19 years for a new job; he is a member of the S-team that advises CEO Andy Jassy |
| 2:35 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple raises its AppleCare+ prices for Macs and iPads by $0.50 per month and $5 per year; the increases are exclusively for new sign-ups |
| 2:17 PM • | Thinking Machines Lab: Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area |
| 1:55 PM • | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's $1.5B AI implementation company, announced in May, launches with the name “Ode with Anthropic” and 100 engineers |
| 1:15 PM • | Ryan Lawler / Axios: Lumin Digital, which provides cloud-based digital banking software to banks and credit unions, raised more than $115M at a $1.6B post-money valuation |
| 12:45 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI employees donated a combined $215K+ to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC seeking stricter AI rules and opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future |
| 12:10 PM • | Megan Morrone / Axios: OpenAI launches Codex Micro, a $230 desktop keypad built in collaboration with keyboard maker Work Louder, with backlit keys, a rotary knob, and a tiny joystick |
| 12:01 PM • | Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: ASML has discussed raising prices for its EUV systems with TSMC and plans to charge 10% more for its DUV systems; TSMC is resisting ASML's price plans |
| 11:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Source: OnePlus will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week and Realme will exit China as part of a restructuring by parent Oppo |
| 11:20 AM • | Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of it deploying Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot in factories |
| 10:55 AM • | The Information: Sources: Apple is looking to acquire chip companies to boost its AI server efforts, as it struggles with AI server chip upgrades and M2 Ultra server performance |
| 10:45 AM • | Lucinda Shen / Axios: Spectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised a $100M Series D from AMD, LG, others at a $1B+ valuation, up from $750M in 2024 |
| 10:35 AM • | Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: How TikTok Shop sellers are using AI creators and AI twins to boost affiliate sales; eMarketer: US sales on TikTok Shop will grow 48% YoY to $23.41B in 2026 |
| 10:25 AM • | Meytal Vaizberg / Globes: Israel-based Hemispheric, whose AI model can analyze brain activity measured non-invasively and turn it into quantitative metrics for diagnoses, raised $52M |
| 9:55 AM • | Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Amsterdam-based Monumental, which develops autonomous robotics and software for the construction industry, raised a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures |
| 9:40 AM • | Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune: Miami-based Cyclops, which sells an infrastructure platform that bundles crypto and stablecoin services to payments companies, raised a $20M Series A |
| 9:20 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Rime, which helps companies field calls using AI voice models trained on conversational data it records in a studio, raised a $24M Series A led by M13 |
| 9:15 AM • | Politico: How Anthropic is pursuing a state-by-state push for ever-tougher AI safety laws, in contrast with OpenAI's “reverse federalism” strategy for common state rules |
| 9:01 AM • | Barbara Moens / Financial Times: Sources: the EU is set to fine Google hundreds of millions of euros over alleged self-preferencing of its services in Search and restrictions on app developers |
| 8:40 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: American Growth Insurance, which aims to acquire struggling independent insurance firms and transform them using AI, raised almost $70M |
| 8:30 AM • | Jeremy B. White / Politico: Gavin Newsom is tempering his pro-tech instincts with economic populism ahead of a likely presidential bid, proposing giving Americans equity in AI companies |
| 8:20 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Indian AI coding startup Emergent raised a $130M Series C at a $1.5B post-money valuation, up from $300M in January, bringing its total funding raised to $230M |
| 8:10 AM • | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Hinge adds Friend's Take, a feature that lets daters enlist up to 10 close contacts to share written feedback, photos, voice notes, or videos on their profiles |
| 8:00 AM • | Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Israel-based Oak, which is building an AI-native identity access management system, comes out of stealth with a $60M seed |
| 7:45 AM • | Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: China enacts rules forbidding companionship chatbots from encouraging emotional reliance, banning virtual relationships with minors, and more |
| 7:15 AM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Neo Security, a cybersecurity startup founded by ex-SentinelOne execs and currently in stealth, raised $50M+, after a $25M seed in 2025 led by a16z and Merlin |
| 6:45 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Samsung unveils a new Flex Titanium foldable display that is slimmer, more durable, and less prone to creasing, debuting in its upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8 series |
| 6:40 AM • | Politico: AI advocates fear New York's moratorium on new data centers could embolden Democrats to enact more state restrictions and seize on the issue in the midterms |
| 6:15 AM • | Bloomberg: India pledges $13.3B to boost domestic chipmaking, building on a $10B incentive program from 2021 that attracted investments from companies like Micron and Tata |
| 6:05 AM • | CNBC: IBM's stock closed down 25.21% on Tuesday, sinking more than its previous worst day of October 19, 1987, after reporting preliminary Q2 results below estimates |
| 5:55 AM • | Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg: Nokia plans to sell its AI-driven RAN platform, developed with Nvidia, to mobile operators by 2027, aiming for a 100% increase in spectrum efficiency by 2028 |
| 5:40 AM • | Reuters: China says Apple Intelligence has been registered for use on iPhones in the country; the service will integrate Alibaba's Qwen and may add Baidu's AI features |
| 4:45 AM • | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: MA-based Walden Robotics, a Toyota robotics spin-off that has started selling humanoid robots, emerges from stealth with a ~$300M seed at a $1.1B valuation |
| 3:35 AM • | Max A. Cherney / Reuters: ASML says Intel has decided to use ASML's next-gen High NA EUV machines to make some of its flagship Panther Lake laptop chips; a High NA machine costs ~$400M |
| 3:30 AM • | April Roach / CNBC: ASML reports Q2 net sales of €9.3B, above €8.8B est., a €2.9B net profit, above €2.6B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €36B-€40B to €43B-€45B |
| 2:30 AM • | James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: A profile of PsiQuantum, which has raised $1B in 2025, is building a quantum computer with GlobalFoundries-made photonic chips, and is highly regarded by DARPA |
| 2:15 AM • | Bloomberg: As China's rules for humanlike AI interaction take effect, many users are bemoaning the loss of the virtual companions they had created on Chinese AI platforms |
| 2:00 AM • | The Information: Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue recently reached $400M to $500M as it seeks to raise ~$7.4B at a ~$74B valuation, up from ~$50B after raising ~$7B in May |
| 1:55 AM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: Court filing: Google says it is ready to add third-party app stores within Google Play in the US on July 22, as Google and Epic withdraw their settlement motion |
| 12:55 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Oracle leads the race to sell “air-gapped” cloud services to Japan that the US says are key to secure intelligence sharing between Tokyo and its allies |
| 12:50 AM • | Wall Street Journal: The UAE gained expanded US AI chip access after aiding the US in the Iran war, letting G42 buy freely for at least nine months; G42 plans to become a US company |
| 12:40 AM • | Bernhard Warner / New York Times: Daniel Ek's Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans, raised $700M co-led by Lightspeed and O.G. Venture Partners, sources say at a ~$7B valuation |
| 12:05 AM • | Ryan Lawler / Axios: NYC-based Hadrius, which provides AI-native compliance tools for financial services, raised a $22M Series A led by CRV with participation from Y Combinator |
| 11:50 PM • | Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Stripe and PE firm Advent have jointly offered $60.50/share to acquire PayPal, a 28% premium to Tuesday's close, valuing it at $53B+; PYPL jumps 17.2% |
| 11:20 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving to launch a startup developing AI models for drug discovery, and is in talks to raise ~$200M at a $2B valuation |
| 11:05 PM • | Wall Street Journal: A group of 26 current and former employees sues Meta for allegedly using AI in layoffs in May to unfairly target workers with disabilities or on protected leave |
| 10:40 PM • | Politico: Sources: multiple GOP governors and large utilities are expected to join Trump's pledge for data center developers to cover their energy use and infrastructure |
| 9:45 PM • | Ivan Penn / New York Times: Monitoring Analytics: PJM's recent electricity auction is expected to add $6.3B to customers' bills in 13 states and DC through 2029 due to data center demands |
| 9:10 PM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: InstaLILY, which develops AI agents to automate sales, operations, and service workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Energize Capital |
| 8:10 PM • | Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Source: CoreWeave is exploring using financial derivatives as a potential hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices, but hasn't hedged yet |
| 7:35 PM • | Ej Dickson / Wired: Study: social networks drove 5.7M+ visits to nudify sites between December 2025 and March 2026, with YouTube accounting for 1.82M visits and X for 1.3M visits |
| 6:40 PM • | David Ingram / NBC News: OpenAI says Apple's claim that OpenAI “never responded” to its concerns is false; emails: OpenAI did respond, but an Apple lawyer mixed up two OpenAI employees |
| 6:30 PM • | Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: The Trump administration details its “Gold Eagle” federal clearinghouse for sharing AI cyber threat information between the government and the private sector |
| 6:20 PM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: Cybersecurity stocks rallied on Tuesday after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna flagged cyber fears as a top priority for customers; CrowdStrike jumped 12%, Okta rose 11% |
| 6:05 PM • | Muvija M / Reuters: The UK government proposes a default overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds and disabling features like autoplay and infinite scroll by default |
| 4:55 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI's first device will be a moveable, screen-free smart speaker with a camera and sensors, meant to serve as an AI companion that taps into ChatGPT |
| 4:50 PM • | Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: Sources: DeepSeek has started planning for an IPO in China and may file as soon as this year, allowing it to debut in 2027 |
| 4:35 PM • | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Anthropic faces ridicule and criticism for an ad titled “There's hope in hard questions” that unsettled viewers with weird graveyard imagery and doomer-ist tone |
| 4:25 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: OpenAI says it is “not aware of any evidence” that Apple's lawsuit alleging trade-secret theft has merit, adding that it believes in fair competition |
| 4:15 PM • | Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: Adapter, which offers an infrastructure layer to help users leverage and control data for use by AI agents and apps, emerges from stealth with $17.8M in funding |
| 4:00 PM • | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Overtone, a “voice- and audio-forward” dating service founded by Hinge creator Justin McLeod that uses AI to make “highly curated introductions”, raised $18M |
| 3:45 PM • | Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: A US judge dismisses a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop the dissemination of CSAM through iCloud, saying Section 230 shields the company |
| 3:30 PM • | MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27B that it says runs natively on Apple devices via MLX; its CEO says Apple is evaluating the tech |
| 2:25 PM • | Washington Post: A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product |
| 1:45 PM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: Austin-based TerraFirma, a construction tech startup founded by two former SpaceX engineers to build remote-controlled construction equipment, raised $115M |
| 1:00 PM • | Bloomberg: Uber is in advanced talks to acquire Delivery Hero; sources: Uber is discussing a bid of ~€40/share, which would value the German food-delivery company at €12B+ |
| 12:20 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google Images launches a Pinterest-like redesign with a browsable, dynamic gallery of images, and adds a way for users to create AI images in Search |
| 12:15 PM • | Politico: The European Commission proposes exempting wearable tech from rules requiring removable batteries, clearing a hurdle for Meta's smart glasses, after US pressure |
| 12:10 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features |
| 12:05 PM • | Reuters: Sources: data center operator Switch has hired investment banks for a US IPO that could raise up to $10B and value it at $80B, set for as soon as Q4 |
| 12:00 PM • | A.J. Katz / The Wrap: Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow sue Google for allegedly using millions of copyrighted books and articles to build AI models |
| 11:55 AM • | Bloomberg: A Trump administration official says a “trivial” number of Nvidia's H200 chips were shipped to China after winning a US license, without offering specifics |
| 11:50 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Chinese startup DFSX launches an AI chip that it claims uses a fully domestic supply chain and can rival 4nm chips depite being built on a 14nm process |
| 11:45 AM • | Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Velocity, a stablecoin treasury and settlement platform, raised a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, bringing its total funding to around $50M |
| 11:30 AM • | Mike Isaac / New York Times: OpenAI has struck a partnership with Kalshi to show FIFA World Cup prediction market data in ChatGPT search results, its first deal with a prediction market |
| 11:20 AM • | Steve Dent / Engadget: Spotify launches Talk to Spotify, letting users create playlists and more via voice, rolling out in beta to Premium users age 18+ in the US, Ireland, and Sweden |
| 11:10 AM • | Connor Jones / The Register: Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted |
| 10:40 AM • | David Morris / Bloomberg: Filing: Chinese chipmaker CXMT is seeking to raise ~$9.8B in an IPO on Shanghai's chip-heavy STAR Board, pricing 6.69B shares at ~$1.28 each |
| 10:30 AM • | Aditya Soni / Reuters: AI startup Reflection says it has signed a $1B+ deal to secure computing capacity from Nebius, including access to Nvidia chips, following a deal with SpaceX |
| 10:25 AM • | Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: Kalshi launches a forward curve tool for AI compute, using event contracts to track the future rental costs of GPUs, storage, and memory |
| 10:20 AM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M |
| 9:35 AM • | Aditya Soni / Reuters: Flex, which offers AI-based payment tools, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $70M Series B1 led by Halo Fund, a source says at a $1.2B valuation |
| 9:26 AM • | Reuters: Analysis: xAI has installed far more gas turbines without US permits at Colossus 2 than it has publicly acknowledged, impacting Black neighborhoods the hardest |
| 9:20 AM • | Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal: Discount airline Frontier partners with SpaceX to offer Wi-Fi for the first time from early 2027, as it targets customers willing to pay more for premium travel |
| 9:11 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Custom AI chip design startup TYLsemi raised $43M in early-stage funding led by Matter Venture Partners to build modular chips thanks to packaging tech advances |
| 8:35 AM • | Financial Times: Sources and telecom data: a coordinated campaign of SS7 pings was used to track the locations of US personnel during the US-led strikes on Iran in late February |
| 8:11 AM • | Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it pitches its models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceutical companies |
| 7:56 AM • | Kirsti Knolle / Reuters: The European Commission approves €659M in German state aid to support four first-of-a-kind chip facilities in Germany, saying they will strengthen EU autonomy |
| 7:30 AM • | Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: IBM reports preliminary Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $17.2B, below $17.9B est., as CEO Arvind Krishna says customers are shifting spending to chips; IBM falls 25% |
| 7:05 AM • | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new environmental permits for data centers over 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so |
| 6:45 AM • | Aaron Smith / Pew Research Center: Survey: 57% of US women and 47% of men ages 18 to 29 say they get health and wellness information from influencers; women say they see such content more often |
| 6:30 AM • | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Nikita Bier says X made a “tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals”, or those who users follow back, to avoid replies becoming a “battleground” |
| 6:20 AM • | Demis Hassabis / @demishassabis: Demis Hassabis proposes a US-based Standards Body for “Frontier-class” AI, modeled after FINRA; labs would share models for review up to 30 days before release |
| 6:10 AM • | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: DeepSeek weighs new fundraising a month after closing first round |
| 6:01 AM • | Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: A look at AI world models, including how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled, as startups led by tech leaders like Yann LeCun raise billions |
| 5:40 AM • | Kiranjeet Kaur / IDC: China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments |
| 4:25 AM • | Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: eMarketer: chatbots like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode will make <$1B in ad revenue in 2026; OpenAI projected $2.5B in ChatGPT ad revenue in 2026 and $100B by 2030 |
| 3:55 AM • | Martha Muir / Financial Times: Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029 |
| 2:25 AM • | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail “context bombing”, where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% |
| 12:45 AM • | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia has cut its Asian authorized AI chip clients by 50%+ and intensified due diligence in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan to prevent China diversions |
| 11:20 PM • | Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: In the wake of China's “embodied AI” push, there's an urgency among China's 100+ humanoid startups to launch IPOs; LimX Dynamics raised $200M in a pre-IPO round |
| 8:45 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B+ |
| 8:10 PM • | Jason Nelson / Decrypt: Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude expresses different values and behaviors across model versions and languages |
| 7:45 PM • | TechCrunch: Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures |
| 7:15 PM • | Benjamin Guggenheim / Washington Post: Source: the Trump administration and industry groups discussed streamlining US open model releases of equal or lesser capability to leading Chinese open models |
| 6:55 PM • | Will Shanklin / Engadget: Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the new Siri AI's first public launch |
| 3:15 PM • | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft unveils a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results and files, removes ads from web results, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders |
| 2:00 PM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more |
| 1:00 PM • | David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: Doc: DHS analysts twice dismissed signs of intruders inside the DHS' network, first detected in May, as harmless activity before confirming a breach in June |
| 12:05 PM • | Gene Maddaus / Variety: A coalition of 12 US states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets |
| 11:55 AM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA |
| 11:40 AM • | Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered “Smartbadges” worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation |
| 11:15 AM • | Ben Weiss / Fortune: Gauntlet, which helps institutions and crypto companies allocate their digital assets, raised a $125M Series C from Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings |
| 10:55 AM • | Shilpi Jain / Counterpoint Research: Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to the lowest Q2 levels since 2013 amid the DRAM and NAND shortage; Samsung returns to #1 with a 24% market share |
| 9:20 AM • | Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Apple's stock is up 16% since June 25, adding ~$650B in market value and pushing shares back to record territory, as investors flee an AI stock selloff to Apple |
| 9:10 AM • | Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Sources: US officials estimate unauthorized distillation costs US AI labs up to $6B/year; US AI labs told the White House it could become an existential threat |
| 8:55 AM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Source: OpenAI still believes it is on track to unveil its first device in 2026 and release it in 2027; Apple's lawsuit may complicate hiring and supply chains |
| 8:45 AM • | Robert Scammell / Business Insider: Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder and one of the biggest names in UK tech, to join its compute team; he is taking a leave of absence from YC |
| 8:15 AM • | Financial Times: Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufacturing at its Leixlip facility in Ireland; in 2025, Intel canceled a planned €30B factory in Magdeburg, Germany |
| 7:30 AM • | Ben Casselman / New York Times: Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement |
| 7:15 AM • | Henry Siu / The Information: Samsung says it now aims to begin operations at its first chipmaking plant in South Korea's Yongin by 2029, bringing the timeline forward from 2030 or 2031 |
| 7:00 AM • | Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its nearly 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW+ of compute, pushing its total spend beyond $250B |
| 6:50 AM • | Politico: The EU blacklists Russian intelligence group members it says were responsible for spying on and hacking targets across the EU and Ukraine from as early as 2010 |
| 6:35 AM • | Bloomberg: China says President Xi will keynote the opening ceremony of the three-day World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday, his first appearance at the event |
| 6:25 AM • | Lee Ying Shan / CNBC: SK Hynix's stock falls 15%+ in Seoul, its largest-ever decline, after a strong Nasdaq debut, as investors book profits amid its US stock valuation uncertainty |
| 6:15 AM • | New York Times: Investigation: Western intelligence officials identify a Russian military intelligence unit in Tokyo that smuggles high-tech components for the war in Ukraine |
| 6:00 AM • | Barbara Moens / Financial Times: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says after the summer the bloc is set to propose a “social media start date for minors” with “gradual access” |
| 5:50 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Shein is targeting a $40B+ valuation after winning Beijing's approval for a Hong Kong IPO, set for as early as Q3; Shein canceled its US IPO in 2024 |
| 5:25 AM • | Isabella Ward / Wired: A Denmark-based research team is using quantum computers to accelerate AI for predicting proteins, showing a near-term commercial application for quantum tech |
| 5:00 AM • | Nathaniel Rich / New York Times: A look back at the 2007 heist at a Verizon data center in London, underlining the importance of physical data security as cyber defenses grow more sophisticated |
| 4:41 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Munich-based defense tech startup Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E from Dragoneer, Iconiq, and others at an $18B valuation; Germany made €493M in orders in 2026 |
| 4:05 AM • | Aarian Marshall / Wired: Docs: Uber lobbied for a “phased transition” to AVs, giving it an edge over self-driving developers; Uber says AV industry proposals overlook drivers' rights |
| 3:46 AM • | Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: Eating disorder therapists say patients are increasingly using AI chatbots, undermining their advice; AI also appears to be directing more patients to helplines |
| 1:35 AM • | Wall Street Journal: A look at ADI Predictstreet's rocky launch, marked by tiny trading volumes, fund withdrawal bugs, and other issues, as it tries to take on Kalshi and Polymarket |
| 12:45 AM • | Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: A Taiwanese minister says TSMC plans two more advanced chip packaging plants in the Chiayi Science Park, with all four set to generate $9.35B+ in annual output |
| 12:00 AM • | Nathan Lambert / Interconnects AI: Open-weight AI models face an existential US policy test; Anthropic is leading a regulatory capture campaign against Chinese models over distillation concerns |
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