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The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they

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

The race to build the fastest AI infrastructure is reshaping the semiconductor industry, with inference speed emerging as the defining competitive dimension of the AI era. As AI model wars intensify a

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows — Microdramas

Enterprise artificial intelligence startup Corvic AI Inc. today released Corvic V5, a version of its platform built around reusing prompts, so when one gets the right answer, V5 can save it as a workf

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

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

Ollama Inc., the largest artificial intelligence platform connecting developers to open models, today announced it has raised 65 million in a new funding round led by Theory Ventures. Benchmark, 8VC,

Cybersecurity startup QIZ Security Ltd. today announced it has raised 17 million in seed funding to expand a platform that discovers and governs the encryption buried across enterprise systems ahead o

Many of the most challenging and valuable problems in the world are related to optimization. Now, AI is now making these problems tractable. If you've ever tried to design a microchip, plan a delivery

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

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

OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT's voice mode with a new model that it says is more like 'talking to another person.' The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to co

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised 1.2B, its fourth fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, like AI and robotics; Paradigm had 11.9B in AUM at the end of 2025 — Paradigm,

Supply chain artificial intelligence startup DeepFabric today announced the general availability of an AI agent platform built for supply chain execution, and a roster of enterprise customers is alrea

The next generation of AI is evolving from a tool into a platform where models, applications, and human workflows converge to create integrated operating environments capable of automating tasks and e

Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia — ZDNET's key

Kaon AI, a generative artificial intelligence platform and research outfit formerly known as FlowGPT that provides online interactive entertainment, today announced it has raised 60 million across rec

A 66-year-old Pennsylvania man, Harry Tiffany IV, was arrested for allegedly using xAI's Grok AI tool to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM) , which he uploaded or shared through Grok between Ap

Agentic go-to-market automation startup Alta AI Inc. said today it has raised 25 million in an early-stage round of funding as it tries to accelerate its mission to enhance customer acquisition for en

Anthropic PBC today announced it’s bringing its Claude Cowork agentic artificial intelligence assistant to mobile and the web, breaking it free from the desktop. Cowork allows users to harness the com

Anthropic PBC will pay 19 billion to lease a TeraWulf Inc. data center for 20 years. TeraWulf, a Nasdaq-listed developer of artificial intelligence infrastructure, announced the deal today. The compan

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

Microsoft's fifth wave of Xbox layoffs in July 2026 resulted in approximately 3,200 job losses, with Bethesda Game Studios losing at least 35 employees and id Software being hit particularly hard, rep

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

SK hynix Inc., the South Korean firm that rivals Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Micron Technology Inc. as one of the world’s top memory chipmakers, said today it will sell almost 17.8 million shares

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

Record-breaking memory chip sales and prices are set to drive a 19-fold increase in Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s second-quarter operating profit, according to a preliminary earnings report issued by

A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximately

Even Realities Ltd., a Shenzhen-based smart glasses startup, has raised 150 million in funding at a 1 billion valuation. TechCrunch reported today that the round was led by Meituan, China’s largest fo

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers Baek, a 3

Xbox announced approximately 3,200 layoffs throughout fiscal 2027 as part of the most significant restructure in its history , with 1,600 staff cut immediately on July 6, 2026 . Four video game studio

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp’s recent broadside against the frontier model vendors put a knife to the throat of the central enterprise artificial intelligence debate. Karp’s ar

Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy,

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

A chip industry association has urged the White House not to make major changes to the way the memory market is regulated. The group, SEMI, represents most of the world’s major semiconductor equipment

India's first space unicorn is preparing for its first orbital launch , with Skyroot Aerospace developing the Vikram series of launch vehicles . In 2025, SpaceX posted a net loss of $4.9 billion , hig

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with AI-enabled gadgets, and more — Amazon is focusing o

As AI moves from model development to production inference, compute demand is accelerating and shifting toward continuously operating AI factories that generate tokens at scale. This shift requires ac

OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Fin

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp appeared to go into meltdown mode during an interview with CNBC today where for 20-odd minutes he went off script after being asked to discuss his

Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank Group Corp. and its telecommunications subsidiary SoftBank Corp. are planning to launch a new neocloud business in the U.S. that will rent access to artificia

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~2B valuation, six months after raising 75M at a 1B valuation — Binance is set to lead

British data intelligence startup StirlingX Ltd. has raised 20 million in an early-stage round to accelerate product development and push into new markets. StirlingX describes itself as a data intelli

Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: Tripo AI, which is developing 3D foundation models and world models for use in games, raised 150M, a month after it said it raised 200M — Tripo AI, a global artificial inte

Physical artificial intelligence is becoming an industrial robotics problem. The market is shifting from software-only automation toward machines that must sense, decide and act in physical settings.