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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

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'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-

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A — Brendan Foo

Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financi

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