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Kenneth Shepard / Kotaku: Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by 100 for 512GB models and 150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025 — Microsoft is increas

Bloomberg: NAND flash maker Kioxia, Japan's most valuable company since June 12, plans to offer US depositary shares in spring 2027 amid AI-driven demand for memory chips — Kioxia Holdings Corp. inten

A comprehensive effort is underway to sequence the genomes of endangered species, with Google providing funding and AI tools to the Vertebrate Genomes Project and the Earth BioGenome Project. Google.o

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: NHTSA proposes eliminating the mandate for manual brake pedals in “vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems” — The Trump administration's Depar

Notion is shutting down Notion Mail, its AI-enhanced email client launched in April 2025 based on the Skiff acquisition, on September 22. More than 50% of Notion Mail users now manage their email usin

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Notion plans to shut down its Gmail client Notion Mail on September 22 and go “all in” on AI agents to run inboxes, saying 50%+ of users do not open the inbox — Last year, Notion e

Om Malik / On my Om: Om Malik, a longtime technology writer, founder of Gigaom, and a partner at True Ventures, died on Wednesday at 59 — Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital af

Artificial intelligence startup Ornn AI Inc. made a big splash today as it raised 33 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto-focused fund and others to build out a marketplace for co

Ana Maria Constantin / The Next Web: Paris-based Tsuga, whose observability software runs in customers' own clouds to help them skip per-byte ingestion costs, raised a 35M Series A led by Singular — T

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a 50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to 70M — AI agents ar

DigitalOcean has launched a cloud-based service enabling users to run OpenAI's Codex, an AI code generation model, on DigitalOcean's infrastructure. This offering allows developers to access Codex cap

Artificial intelligence developer-centric cloud provider Runpod Inc. announced Tuesday it has raised 100 million in early-stage funding, pushing the valuation of the company to 1 billion. The Series A

Artificial intelligence startup Scaled Cognition Inc. today announced that it has raised 100 million in funding. Khosla Ventures led the Series A deal with participation from Genesys Telecommunication

Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg: SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut helped support Softbank's stock — SoftBank Gr

Ethan Gach / Kotaku: Sony's Bungie says it is laying off a “significant number of employees”, including “most of the Destiny team”; Bungie has an estimated headcount of 800 — The studio said the sci-f

Ann Gehan / The Information: Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models — Google i

Alan Neuhauser / Axios: Source: Muon Space, which operates satellite networks for climate and national security monitoring, is raising 250M; it has raised ~181M since its 2021 launch — Muon Space, whi

Alberto Nardelli / Bloomberg: Sources and a draft document: the US proposes that the EU sign on to an AI partnership to help secure chip supply chains; the one-page statement had few details — The US

Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Bumble explores a sale amid slowing growth in the online dating sector; its shares fell 48% over the past 12 months, giving it a market cap of $388M — Dating app Bumble

Erin Woo / The Information: Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to “midtraining” to try to catch up with Anthropic, after major executive departures — Google is r

Financial Times: Sources: Meta is accelerating plans to use LLMs to review content and ads, replacing ~50% of human review requests in 2026 and aiming for 90% by year-end — Facebook parent is accelera

New York Times: Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions — The A.I. company's advi

The Information: Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT 5.6 over security concerns, approving “access customer by customer” — For AI companies on t

Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data — Palo Alto-based bl

Bloomberg: The Netherlands is lobbying the US not to expand chip equipment export controls that would constrain ASML's ability to sell immersion DUV machines to China — The Netherlands is lobbying the

Europe experienced severe heatwaves beginning in late May 2026, with the first starting May 24 bringing temperatures 10-15°C higher than normal and causing several deaths. A second, more intense heat

David Politis / Utah Money Watch: Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an 81M Series B at a 1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation from Pelion and Cervin — The Utah eCommerc

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Warp, a startup using AI to automate payroll compliance and employee management, raised a 60M Series B led by Battery, bringing its total funding to 85M — Warp, a startup using A

Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised 60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff i

Serverless PostgreSQL is a managed database service that abstracts away infrastructure management, allowing users to run PostgreSQL databases without provisioning or managing servers. This approach en

A serverless database for AI applications should prioritize scalability, low latency, and seamless integration with machine learning workflows, eliminating the need for infrastructure management. Key

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: YouTube rolls out changes to Shorts, including adding a setting to double playback speed, eliminating the “dislike” button, and more — YouTube is rolling out a series of chan

NASA cancelled the Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) after spending more than $3.5 billion with no operational flights, opting instead to shift toward commercial hardware like Centaur V. On February 26, 2

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: Amazon plans to expand Amazon Now to 300+ Indian cities and towns, up from 100 at present, as CEO Andy Jassy visits India; a source says he is set to meet Modi — Amazon.

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: An Amazon seller reveals how middlemen on chat apps offer access to Amazon employees who allegedly grant favors, like reinstating suspended accounts, for a fee — Middlemen l

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Disney's CEO, his legacy, new CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Chapek, Apple, Disney+, purchasing Pixar, AI, and more — For two dec

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Cloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on PACT, a protocol to distinguish legitimate human or bot traffic from undesirable network requests — Makers of

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today said it has signed a multiyear partnership with Microsoft Corp. that will see its data security and cyber recovery technology offered as a native

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Customer engagement service MoEngage acquires Aampe, whose AI agents help brands personalize messaging, for “tens of millions”, per a source; Aampe raised ~$28M — Indian cu

Bobby Allyn / NPR: Documents: Meta's planned prediction markets app will use Meta AI models to generate questions from trending topics, make recommendations, and resolve markets — Meta is planning to

A Tesla Model 3 crashed into a residential home in Katy, Texas, killing a 76-year-old grandmother, with the driver claiming Autopilot was active at the time. Elon Musk disputed the claim, and Tesla's

To maintain business continuity, you need a robust data-backup strategy. While multi-region backups offer the highest availability, many organizations want a more cost-effective way to protect their d

French researchers designed experimental glass tubes mimicking wine bottle necks and used fluorescent sensors to track oxygen movement through corks over 18 months without opening them. By varying cor

The FCC is considering new rules that would require phone companies to collect government IDs and physical addresses from customers to combat scam calls and robocalls. Privacy advocates warn the propo

Figma has revealed some new design and coding product updates at its annual Config conference that aim to help creatives 'push their ideas further' and automate tedious tasks with AI. Part of this is

Formula E announced its first calendar for the 2026-27 GEN4 era featuring a record 21 races across 13 cities, with three new permanent circuit venues including COTA in Austin, Brands Hatch in London,