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Bloomberg: How Spain's LaLiga uses nationwide IP blocking to combat illegal sports streams, impacting an estimated 550K+ domains, putting it in conflict with Cloudflare — From small businesses to gove

Bloomberg: Lime raised 174M in its US IPO, selling 6.68M shares at 25 each, at the midpoint of the marketed range, giving Lime a market value of 1.6B — Neutron Holdings Inc., better known as Lime, and

Ryan Lawler / Axios: MDOTM, which makes AI software for asset and wealth managers, raised 27M led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to 36.5M — MDOTM, which makes AI software for

Reuters: Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details — China's food delivery giant Me

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a 31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to 41.5M — The AI-driven

Josh Scott / BetaKit: Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which is building software, sensors, and drones to autonomously monitor the Arctic, raised a CA139M Series A led by Georgian — Six months after cl

Lisa Bonos / Inc: Pie, a startup that uses AI to optimize marketing for brick-and-mortar small businesses, emerges from stealth with a $19.5M Series A led by Lightspeed — Pie, which spent the past yea

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: Political campaign managers and consultants are using AI to analyze voter data, create campaign materials, and more; survey: 87% of campaigners use AI daily — A.I.

Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning Grindr into an “AI-native company”, “impos[ing]” AI on staff, facing “opposition”, using AI as a CEO, and more — George Ari

Frank Connelly / Bloomberg: Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a 3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva — Schneider

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 contempt ruling in its Epic case after a district judge found Apple violated an order to make App Store changes — The U.S. Supr

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference — We closely track efforts b

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026 shipment targets, with Xiaomi cutting 30% to ~95M units — TAIPEI — Major Chinese sma

Bloomberg: Sources: Kalshi agreed to pay 20M to sponsor the World Cup knockouts, after initially balking at FIFA's 150M asking price, alongside ADI Predictstreet — When the World Cup knockout round be

Bobby Allyn / NPR: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, before directing Meta employees to build a prediction market app — Before Meta CEO Ma

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources: Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox — -

Politico: Sources: the Trump administration plans to lift export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 as early as Tuesday evening, making it available to all general users — Anthropic and the administr

Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok settles a lawsuit before a second California trial over social media harm to minors for an undisclosed sum; Meta and Snap remain defendants — TikTok is finalizing a settleme

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: SpaceX cuts monthly Starlink prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its Colossus data centers — SpaceX is offering

John Harney / Bloomberg: The DOD seeks to recruit engineers experienced in frontier AI, machine learning and automation, and data systems, to embed them “down to the unit level” — The Trump administra

Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment “steering” rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it “already made the changes” — Britain's com

Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons raised 1.68B by selling 58M shares at 29 each, valuing it at ~18.4B, in one of the largest US IPOs by a European company in 2026 — Bending Spoons

Kyle Baird / The Block: Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves — Quick Take — Paym

Max Miller / Engadget: A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K+ AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock — “You can't get

Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Next Platform: Academic papers and conference materials offer a deep dive into China's all-CPU LineShine, which pairs custom 304-core Arm CPUs with HBM to top the Top500

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Adobe: online spending across all retailers in the US hit 26.4B during Amazon's four-day Prime Day event, up 9.3% YoY; Walmart and Target also hosted sales — Online spending

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO — Chamath Palihapitiya,

Mark Maurer / Wall Street Journal: AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and difficult for the industry — As AI t

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: AI leaderboard provider Arena says it hit $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching AI Evaluations, which offers performance analytics — Just eight

Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal: An interview with Axon CEO Rick Smith, who transformed the Taser maker into a policing software company, as its revenue from AI policing tools rises 700%+ YoY —

Bloomberg: As a new law bars DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms drop companies like Alibaba and Tencent — Washington's most powerful

Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg: Australia's ACCC sues Amazon for allegedly introducing ads to Prime Video under unfair contract terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them — Amazon.com

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Baz releases Baz Planner, which uses four specialized AI agents to analyze code at the planning stage, and extends its seed funding by 9M to 17M — Agentic coding startup

Christine Mui / Politico: California strikes a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of Claude products across state agencies and local governments at a 50% discount — “A lot of departments are going

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: Changpeng Zhao says Binance's MiCA application in Greece was fully compliant and close to approval by at least one EU regulator but “other forces” opposed it — Quick Take

Bloomberg: Chinese robotics startup AI² Robotics raised ~736M at a ~2.9B valuation; Alibaba-backed X Square Robot raised an undisclosed amount at a ~2.9B valuation — Two Chinese robotics startups have

David Keohane / Financial Times: Dealogic: Japan saw 18 IPOs in H1 2026, the lowest since 2011, despite stock market surges, partly due to Japan's lack of AI, data center, and chip startups — Tokyo's

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and was tested on Gemma and Qwen — Chin

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Digital Realty says it plans to acquire a majority stake in three fully leased Northern Virginia data centers from Blackstone-managed funds in a $7.8B deal — Digital Realty (

James Hunt / The Block: Filing: Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead topping up its USD reserve to 2.55B and announcing a 1B digital credit buyback program — Quick Take — Strate

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Google says the Gemini app now offers personalized Nano Banana image generation, previously limited to Plus, Pro, and Ultra users, to eligible US users for free — Google

Matt Burgess / Wired: Google VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins warns the EU's DMA proposals to open Android and Search could lead to a significant rise in fraud within weeks — Europe's pro-com

David Segal / New York Times: How a Polymarket dispute over a single syllable ignited a bitter debate; Polymarket uses Risk Labs' Optimistic Oracle to decide ~200K tough call bets per month — In mid-A

Sam Fleming / Financial Times: How the UK is betting on IT and AI to combat slow economic and productivity growth, including moving beyond the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge — Region

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: In Q2, there were thirteen 1B+ US venture-backed startup exits, either through acquisition or IPO, the most exits since the 2021 market peak — Startup exits valued at

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal documents: Meta is placing strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division can use Claude Code and Codex, fearing inadvertent distillation — As Meta Pl