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Brian Danga / The Block: Coinbase secures UK FCA authorization to offer investment services, enabling it to expand into derivatives and equities trading, its largest UK expansion yet — Quick Take — Co
Reuters: Counterpoint: China smartphone sales fell 13% YoY during the 618 shopping festival as brands raised prices to offset memory costs; Honor fell 33% and Xiaomi 24% — Smartphone sales in China fe
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: Court filing: Meta says four US states seek 1.4T over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict youth and misled the public; its market cap is ~1.5T — Meta Platf
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: EDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform, raised a 76M Series C led by SBI Holdings — EDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform
Financial Times: European banking watchdogs ECB and ESRB warn that frontier AI models pose “systemic risks to the financial system”, giving lenders four months to prepare — IT weaknesses could be expl
Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google announces a Pixel event on August 12 in NYC, where it is expected to launch Pixel 11 series of phones and Pixel Watch 5 — Made by Google 2026 is officially taking place o
Jay Peters / The Verge: Google launches “platform properties” in the Google Search Console, letting creators and website owners see which search terms lead to their social platforms — A new feature wi
Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek: Keyfactor, which manages billions of machine identities for more than 2,500 client organizations, raised $1B+ led by Summit Partners — The investment will accelerate Keyfac
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Lisbon-based Bizay, a customized products marketplace for SMBs, raised a $55M Series D led by Indico, as it aims to accelerate its US expansion — BIZAY will use the fresh
Victoria Song / The Verge: Meta announces that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that disables the camera if someone tampers with the glasses' privacy LED light — The company is rolli
Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta says Muse Image includes an invisible watermarking system called Content Seal and previews a web tool to check whether an image was generated with Meta AI — It has rate l
Bloomberg: Munich-based nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion raised €411M led by trading firm XTX and UK-based East X at a €2.4B valuation, with participation from Google — German startup Proxima Fus
William Earl / Variety: Netflix signs deals with Penske Media, Condé Nast, Hearst, People, and other publishers to carry a range of programming from 2 to 20+ minutes, starting August 3 — Netflix is fu
Guinevere Grant / Bloomberg: Norm, which runs an AI law firm that provides AI-powered legal services to clients alongside human lawyers, raised 120M led by Khosla at a 1.2B valuation — Norm Ai has rai
Wall Street Journal: OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are offering startups token credits and special promotions, as the AI labs seek lasting streams of enterprise revenue — Pitched battle for
Axios: OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly on Thursday; a source says the US Department of Commerce cleared a broad rollout — The U.S. Department of Commerce has g
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: OpenRouter: Chinese AI models have drawn 30%+ of token use by US companies each week since February 8, peaking at 46%, up from 11% over the previous 12 months — Chinese-built
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Paris-based UMA, founded by ex-Tesla Optimus scientist Rémi Cadene and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Pierre Sermanet, demos its Northstar AI humanoid robot — A former Tes
Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Samsung announces a Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22 in London, where it is expected to debut new foldables, including a Fold 8 with a shorter and wider design — Samsung Elect
Puyaan Singh / Reuters: Sleep apnea device maker ResMed agrees to sell its software business MatrixCare to PE firm Frazier for 490M in cash; ResMed bought MatrixCare for 750M in 2018 — ResMed (RMD.N)
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: Solos unveils the AirGo A6 camera-less smart glasses, cutting the weight to 19g from the AirGo A5's 36g to 40g, and V2 privacy accessories like a clip-on shield — The Air
Fanny Potkin / Reuters: Sources: Beijing recently held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, Z.ai, and others to discuss restricting overseas access to advanced open and closed AI models — Chinese authori
Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek is in the early stages of developing its own AI chip designed for inference, in a bid to reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei hardware — Chinese startup DeepSeek is deve
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Sources detail Xbox's big reset after its Game Pass strategy failed; Xbox spent nearly 80B on content deals, but gamers prefer to stick with a handful of games — Micro
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft, looking to reduce AI costs, is starting to replace models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook — Microsoft Corp.
Byron Kaye / Reuters: Study: 50 test accounts created in Australia across nine platforms were never asked to verify their age, despite the Australian law mandating a ban on under-16s — Australia's onl
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Super.com, which offers a savings app for lower-income consumers, raised a 65M Series D led by TPG at a 1.2B valuation and says it is profitable — In 2022, Hussein Fazal fl
Gao Yuan / Bloomberg: Survey: Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI accelerator budget to domestic products in the next 12 months, up from 30% today, a shift from Nvidia — Chinese compani
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Tangos, which uses AI to conduct financial crime investigations at scale, raised a 20M seed led by Red Dot — Tangos AI Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence t
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: UK-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale secures a 900M line of credit to expand its data center buildout across Europe, the US, and the Asia Pacific — Nscale raised
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for autonomous “killer robots” to be “banned by international law”, a central issue in the US DOD-Anthropic clash — Ant
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: US autonomous military vehicle startup Forterra says it deployed 100+ Lancer UGVs, based on Polaris ATVs, in Ukraine since 2025, completing 1,100+ missions — Forterra, a US
Emily Shugerman / The San Francisco Standard: A profile of Rachel Whetstone, who has led comms for Google, Meta, Uber, Netflix, and now Sierra, as her husband Steve Hilton runs for California governor
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: A profile of Samsung union leader Choi Seung-ho, who helped win a ~$26B bonus package for chip employees, as he tries to resolve the rift over bonus gaps — Avoiding old-school
Olivia Fletcher / Bloomberg: AI-driven drops in labor income and gains in capital income could hit Ireland's tax base, with 6%+ of its workforce in tech and heavy exposure to US companies — The countr
Armin Ronacher / Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings: Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 seem worse at tool calls than older models, likely due to post-training that assumes Claude Code-like harnesses as
Eric Katz / NOTUS: Document: a draft US Treasury Department report is set to warn about the AI market's risks, likening some key aspects to the dotcom crash in the early 2000s — Publicly, the Trump ad
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Filing: Brookfield-backed data center company Csquare seeks to raise up to 1.35B in an IPO, selling 50M shares at 23 to 27 each for an up to 4.18B valuation — Csquare Inc.
David Keohane / Financial Times: How Masayoshi Son is remaking SoftBank in his own image, betting on AI; SoftBank trades at a ~50% discount to its net asset value, as some question the strategy — The
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more — The humanoid ro
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known “agentic ransomware”, which adapts in real time and retries steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation — Resear
Brian Danga / The Block: Ripple secures CASP authorization from Luxembourg's financial regulator, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries — Quick Take — Ripple
Anniek Bao / CNBC: SemiAnalysis: Nvidia delays its next-gen AI rack system Kyber NVL144 by 12+ months to 2028 due to PCB manufacturing issues, and cancels its NVL72x2 architecture — NVIDIA's next marq
Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~892.5M in a new share sale to boost GPU production; Biren's stock is up 150%+ since its January Hong Kong IPO — Chinese ar
Kate Park / TechCrunch: Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent — Meta and Snap rolled out new smart g
Reuters: SK Hynix launches a US share sale on the Nasdaq to raise ~28B, selling 17.79M new shares; the final listing price is due Thursday before trading starts Friday — South Korean chipmaker SK Hyni
Jennifer Medina / New York Times: Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media — It ta
Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg: WiseTech co-founder Richard White steps down as chair amid a police probe over claims he exploited a woman's immigration status for sex; WTC jumps 7%+ — Billionaire Richard W
Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media addiction — Kaley Glen
Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg: A US federal judge orders the DOD to shield Alibaba from a law that led lobbyists to drop it as a client while she weighs the measure's constitutionality — A federal judge o
New York Times: Analysis: ~1M TRUMP retail buyers lost a combined 3.81B, while ~500K mostly-early wallets captured $4B in gains, a textbook memecoin wealth transfer — A report from a cryptocurrency an
Financial Times: Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged internet company with ~$4.4B in debt — Nasdaq listing caps
Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will disable humanlike and user-created agents before July 15, as China's anthropomorphic AI interaction rules take effect
Patricia Kowsmann / Wall Street Journal: Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received 100B+ in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024 —
Josh Zoffer / Financial Times: Data centers offer US a chance to get ahead in the next key technologies and to build domestic supply chains based on demand rather than subsidies and tariffs — America
Sejal Sharma / Hindustan Times: India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an action-taken report within 15 days — The Mi
Ming-Chi Kuo: Kuo: suppliers plan to ship less than 1M iPhone fold units in 3Q26, which may push the start of device pre-orders and sales to Q4, with weeks of delivery delays — My latest industry surv
Sofia Chesnokova / Tech Funding News: NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge funds, raised a 22M Series A co-led by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures — -
Kieran Smith / Financial Times: Sources: Uber halts plans to launch food delivery in five of the seven European countries it had targeted for expansion as it pursues a Delivery Hero takeover — Ride-ha
Grace Kay / The Information: Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 — Tesla said it rolled