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Is an air-conditioning revolution coming to Europe?

A deadly June 2026 heatwave has turned air conditioning into a new climate and political battleground in Europe , as air conditioner sales across the continent have surged dramatically, with shipments

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Like a cheat code for your car: We investigate ECU tuning

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ECU tuning is an ongoing arms race between automobile manufacturers locking down vehicle chips and aftermarket tuners attempting to crack them . The article investigates how ECU tuning modifies engine

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Memory chip giant SK hynix bags $26.5B in blockbuster US listing

South Korean memory chipmaker SK hynix Inc. has priced its American Depository Receipts at 149, raising around 26.5 billion ahead of its debut on the Nasdaq exchange Friday. The decision to list its s

Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)

Corbin Bolies / Variety: Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism — Meta said it will disco

Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts

Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The featu

Munich-based QuantumDiamonds, which uses quantum sensors to detect chip defects, raised €91M, including €76M under the European Chips Act (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)

Cristian Dina / The Next Web: Munich-based QuantumDiamonds, which uses quantum sensors to detect chip defects, raised €91M, including €76M under the European Chips Act — QuantumDiamonds, a spin-out of

NASA sure seems to be asking an awful lot of private space stations

NASA released a draft request for the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destination Contract, which will determine who builds and operates the space station(s) intended to succeed the International Space Sta

Open-source AI model developer MiniMax raises $2B in funding

MiniMax Group Inc., a Shanghai-based artificial intelligence developer, is raising 2 billion in funding. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that more than half the funds are expected to come from the sale

Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or 'cookie stuffing' to claim affiliate commissions (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions — Phia, an advertising startup co

Polymarket is seeking CFTC and NFA approval to offer margin trading in the US, which would let users bet on events with less capital upfront and attract traders (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Polymarket is seeking CFTC and NFA approval to offer margin trading in the US, which would let users bet on events with less capital upfront and attract traders — Polymarket is seeking regu

Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios: Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts — Meta's move to allow

Pulling out the AI stops at RAISE Paris

Everyone who’s anyone in the crazy artificial intelligence world attended the RAISE Summit in Paris this week. Bigger, noisier and more crowded than last year’s installment, this year’s summit feature

Real-time dental image verification with Amazon SageMaker AI at Henry Schein One

This post describes how Henry Schein One closed that gap by building Image Verify, an AI-powered quality verification system on Amazon SageMaker AI that evaluates dental X-ray quality at the point of

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SK Hynix opens up 14% at 170 after raising 26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC: SK Hynix opens up 14% at 170 after raising 26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company — SK Hynix opened at $170 per share on the Nasdaq on Friday, rising about

Source: Greg Brockman will continue to oversee OpenAI's products as the company doesn't plan to hire anyone to replace Fidji Simo after she stepped down (CNBC)

CNBC: Source: Greg Brockman will continue to oversee OpenAI's products as the company doesn't plan to hire anyone to replace Fidji Simo after she stepped down — There's a new second-in-command at Open

Study shows how toxic RFK Jr.’s change to measles vaccine is for US toddlers

The Trump administration, under Health Secretary RFK Jr., has proposed breaking up combination vaccines like MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) into separate shots , and medical organizations including the

Taiwan's leading DRAM maker Nanya Technology expects its capex to exceed ~6.2B in 2027, up ~4x YoY, and reports unaudited Q2 revenue of ~2.6B, up 684% YoY (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)

Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: Taiwan's leading DRAM maker Nanya Technology expects its capex to exceed ~6.2B in 2027, up ~4x YoY, and reports unaudited Q2 revenue of ~2.6B, up 684% YoY — Taiwanese memory chi

The ambulatory intelligence gap

The article discusses the disparity between healthcare organizations' capabilities in leveraging data and AI for ambulatory care versus inpatient settings, highlighting how ambulatory providers often

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The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

Karen Freifeld / Reuters: The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license — The U.S. Depa

The UK designates Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle as critical third-party financial sector suppliers, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight (Muvija M/Reuters)

Muvija M / Reuters: The UK designates Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle as critical third-party financial sector suppliers, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight — Britain has designated

Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that 'extends human will and judgment' (Thinking Machines Lab)

Thinking Machines Lab: Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that “extends human will and judgment” — The mission of Thinkin

Valve's new Steam Machine verification system is silent on these Steam Deck-busters

Valve has introduced new verification systems for its upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame hardware, detailed at GDC 2026 . Steam Machine Verified functions as a higher-performance extension of Stea

VAST Data targets KV cache storage and neoclouds as AI infrastructure enters the exabyte era

As AI infrastructure investment scales globally and inference workloads multiply, cache storage is emerging as the critical data layer that makes AI factories functional, persistent and economically v

Web data scraping infrastructure startup Oxylabs reels in $130M in its first funding round

Data scraping startup Oxylabs UAB has broken into unicorn territory after raising 130 million in funding from the private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC. The round is the first time the bootstrapped c

Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?

A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one - instead, it's offering to pay its customers to put its compute units in their homes. Sunrun is laun

1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give it 25 degrees of freedom of movement, nearly the same as a human hand (Boone Ashworth/Wired)

Boone Ashworth / Wired: 1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give it 25 degrees of freedom of movement, nearly the same as a human hand — The soft, wei

A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% (Emma Whitford/Inside Higher Ed)

Emma Whitford / Inside Higher Ed: A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% — Brown U

Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CA

Allstate Insurance claims that Broadcom initiated a software license audit only after the insurer decided to stop using VMware and CA software. Both Broadcom business units have brought copyright infr

Ask, build, compose: What our 5th Genie Hackathon taught us about Databricks Genie

Databricks' 5th Genie Hackathon demonstrated key insights about their Genie AI product through three core capabilities: asking questions about data, building analytical solutions, and composing workfl

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Blue Origin seeks to raise $10B from external investors in first VC-led funding round

Jeff Bezos’s rocket company Blue Origin Enterprises LP is reportedly looking to raise money from outside investors for the first time in more than two decades. The company is in talks to secure 10 bil

Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a fivefold return for Carlyle (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a fivefold return for Carlyle — Deal underscores bright

Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie

Character.AI's plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series - short-

Companies are mobilizing internal groups of 'AI champions' to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025 (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Companies are mobilizing internal groups of “AI champions” to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025

Darktrace finds AI gateway with Amazon Bedrock access hijacked for cryptomining

Researchers at U.K.-based cybersecurity company Darktrace Holdings Ltd. today detailed a cloud intrusion in which a compromised artificial intelligence gateway tied to Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Amazo

Databento, which sells financial data feeds, raised a 97M Series B led by NEA, taking its total funding to 127M, and says it is 'profitable every month' (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Databento, which sells financial data feeds, raised a 97M Series B led by NEA, taking its total funding to 127M, and says it is “profitable every month” — Christina Qi spen

European startups raised 24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised 10.4B, above Germany's 3.2B, and France's 2.4B (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: European startups raised 24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised 10.4B, above Germany's 3.2B, and France's 2.4B — In Q2, Europe

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI (Andrew Ackerman/Washington Post)

Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post: Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI — The

Fidji Simo says she has decided to leave her full-time role at OpenAI and transition to being a part-time adviser after her medical condition worsened (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Fidji Simo says she has decided to leave her full-time role at OpenAI and transition to being a part-time adviser after her medical condition worsened — The head of artificial gen

Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness

OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a 'part-time advisor,' she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in Apri

Flores Hobbits' eating habits offer clues about their evolutionary past

Recent research published in July 2026 suggests that Homo floresiensis scavenged the remains of Komodo dragon kills rather than hunting large prey as previously thought. This finding indicates a diffe

Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads — Google is rol

Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI

You can see if ads on Google Search, Google Discover, and YouTube were made or edited using AI from a new section in Google's 'My Ad Center,' as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The update, announced o

How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books (Rose Horowitch/The Atlantic)

Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic: How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books — twenty-three hundred years ago, th

Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs

Teleoperated humanoid robots completed two minimally invasive gallbladder removal surgeries on live pigs during a preclinical trial published in Nature. One surgery involved a humanoid robot with a hu

Internal US DOJ memo: attorneys working on digital currency cases should expect less cooperation from Binance, which is adding requirements for asset freezes (Leo Schwartz/The Information)

Leo Schwartz / The Information: Internal US DOJ memo: attorneys working on digital currency cases should expect less cooperation from Binance, which is adding requirements for asset freezes — In early

Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize $293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize 293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries — Law enfo

Leaked renders via Android Headlines show the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, Watch 9, and Watch Ultra 2; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is likely a new wide foldable (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)

Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: Leaked renders via Android Headlines show the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, Watch 9, and Watch Ultra 2; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is likely a new wide foldable — The company h

Market data platform startup Databento closes 97M round after drawing 300M in investor demand

Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised 97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor demand ra