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Dominic Preston / The Verge: Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview — Muse Spa

Meta Platforms Inc. this week sought to reassure consumers about the privacy safeguards of its controversial artificial intelligence-enabled glasses, yet at the same time it’s reportedly pushing even

Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan have been diagnosed with cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea, making it the largest outbreak in state history. No deaths have

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Micron raises its US capex commitment to 250B through 2035, adding 50B for New York, Idaho, Virginia, and other projects, and invests $500M in GlobalWafers — Micron Raises

Microsoft may once again be struggling to keep up with its own climate goals, according to its 2026 sustainability report. As reported by GeekWire, the report states that Microsoft's carbon emissions

Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it's now using AI to 'identify potential issues earlier,' which means 'cust

Bloomberg: MiniMax is looking to raise as much as 1.9B by selling 35.6M shares at ~34 each and offering ~$830M in convertible bonds due 2027 — MiniMax Group Inc. is joining a rush by Chinese technolog

Multiple news organizations including The New York Times and Daily News have asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, alleging the company hid evidence critical to a copyright infringement

OpenAI released ChatGPT Work, a general-purpose productivity agent designed to help people with ambitious tasks beyond traditional coding projects. The tool performs actions autonomously across connec

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Oxylabs, which develops web data scraping infrastructure, received a 130M investment at a 3.6B valuation from Warburg Pincus, its first outside investment — Data scraping

I found search results covering multiple Windows Defender zero-days from 2026, but the specific article about a disk-fill vulnerability isn't in these results. However, based on the Ars Technica title

Unified identity security platform provider Permiso Security Inc. today launched the Risk Score Engine, a model that assigns continuous, multidimensional risk scores to every human, machine and artifi

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: PitchBook: US venture funding hit 412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or 355.9B; Q2 saw seven 1B+ rounds — U.S. venture c

Ruf unveiled a new 1,000+ horsepower twin-turbo flat-eight engine at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, paired with a six-speed manual transmission . The prototype engine is installed in an elongated Ruf

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: SAP will make it easier for customers to switch to rival service providers or end contracts, averting a possible EU antitrust fine after a September 2025 probe — SAP (SAPG.DE),

DigitalOcean has released a public preview of Managed Weaviate, a fully managed vector database service that enables users to scale AI and machine learning applications without managing infrastructure

Bloomberg: SK Hynix raises 26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for 149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed — SK Hynix Inc. raised $26.5 billi

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock — Streamer is rethink

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Sources: Sonos' layoffs include some top design and product executives, like VP of Design Dana Krieger; CEO Tom Conrad says the move reduces management layers — Sonos Inc. has

Financial Times: The AI data center boom has led to surging demand for power transformers, with average lead times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years — Surging data-centre

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of n

Paul Sandle / Reuters: US cybersecurity and data resilience company Rubrik plans to invest 500M+ in the UK over the next five years and establish its European headquarters in London — U.S. cybersecuri

Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense: Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 Ventures — You kn

This Databricks blog post evaluates the performance and capabilities of coding agents when applied to real-world scenarios involving their own multi-million line codebase, likely assessing metrics suc

Blue Origin announced its first external funding round on July 8, 2026, aiming to raise 10 billion with a 130 billion post-money valuation. This marks the first significant outside investment since it

Rajasik Mukherjee / Reuters: China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to raise around 890.37M in its Hong Kong share sale by offering 216.2M shares at ~4.12/share, the top of its range — China's Nex

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised 1.2B, its fourth fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, like AI and robotics; Paradigm had 11.9B in AUM at the end of 2025 — Paradigm,

The Information: Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds of millions at a 9B valuation; source: founder Marc Lore indicated he'll contribute 200M to the round — Wonder, the owner of GrubHub

Axios: Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs 2 per 1M input tokens and 6 per 1M output tokens — Elon Musk's SpaceXAI is launching G

Researchers discovered a HalluSquatting attack that exploits AI tools' tendency to hallucinate package names, which attackers can register to trick AI assistants into running malicious code and assemb

A federal judge rejected Kalshi's request to block New York from enforcing gambling laws against the prediction market platform, ruling that state gambling regulations are not preempted by federal com

Kaon AI, a generative artificial intelligence platform and research outfit formerly known as FlowGPT that provides online interactive entertainment, today announced it has raised 60 million across rec

Corbin Bolies / Variety: Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds using its AI-based FlowGPT and Emochi tools, raised $60M from B Capital and others, and says Emochi has 2M DAUs — Kaon AI, a st

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct — Meta's AI expansion is

Miami-based City Labs launched BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability), the world's first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, aboard SpaceX Transporter-17 on July 7, 2026. The mission demonstrat

This guide provides strategies and best practices for migrating data analytics workloads from Azure Synapse to the Databricks platform, covering technical considerations and transition planning. It li

A newly deployed seafloor observatory at the Southeast Indian Ridge captured the first in situ measurement of oceanic crust being created between tectonic plates . Rather than occurring gradually, sea

Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users — While native

Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider: Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a 300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures — - Or

David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion — Paris-

In this post, we explore how Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) is transforming scientific research by combining graph databases with generative AI. With this approach, you can acce

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a 130M Series A at a 1B valuation — Prime Intelle

Oratomic Inc., a quantum computing startup, has raised 300 million in early-stage funding to scale its quantum hardware and accelerate its path to fault tolerance and error correction, creating the ne

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard — Mark Zucke

A Brown University professor discovered widespread AI cheating when 40 out of 86 students scored perfect 100s on a take-home midterm exam with an average of 96 , while some answers contained unusual p

Boone Ashworth / Wired: The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years — After more th