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Bloomberg: Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~750M in two phases, at valuations of 3.5B in the first tranche and ~5B in the second — AI chip startup Positron is in talk

Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to “handle difficult, long-running” legal, finance, and coding tasks — SpaceXAI has un

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

Madison Mills / Axios: The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro — The OpenAI Deplo

New York Times: Alibaba's Qwen models have made it an AI powerhouse, but the company has struggled to turn their global popularity into a profitable business — The Chinese company's models have won ov

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to web and mobile in beta for Max plan subscribers, and says 90%+ of Cowork usage is unrelated to software development — ZDNET's key takeaways —

New York Times: Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people this year, as AI companies expand in the city — Anthropic, the artificial i

Bloomberg: Apple supplier Luxshare raised ~3.1B in its Hong Kong IPO, selling 383.5M shares at ~8 each, the top of its marketed range, and will start trading on Thursday — Apple Inc. supplier Luxshare

Financial Times: Apple's interest in buying CXMT chips has thrust the Chinese memory chip maker and its relationship with Beijing into the AI supply chain spotlight — Sharp turnaround for state-backed

Reece Rogers / Wired: As part of Meta's Muse Image rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content by other users — As part of Meta's Muse Image

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