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Homebuilding artificial intelligence startup Higharc said today it has raised 95 million in a new round of funding to transform the way construction projects are planned and run. Today’s Series C roun

Social engineering through phishing remains one of the most common tactics for launching cyberattacks. AI-generated phishing email messages now pose a new challenge for security teams managing email s

Grace Kay / The Information: Internal memo: Tesla plans to impose a 200-per-week limit for staff's AI spending beginning July 6; the tally excludes beta versions of xAI products — Tesla told employees

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised 2B at a 15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as 3B — China's Kling AI has raised an

Fifteen privacy and consumer groups warned the FTC that X poses serious privacy risks, calling the company's petition to end oversight audits illegal. X requested that the FTC terminate data security

PamStealer is a macOS infostealer disguised as the legitimate Maccy clipboard manager that uses a two-stage attack chain to silently harvest data and clipboard contents while evading detection. The ma

OpenAI Group PBC has reportedly floated the idea of giving a 5% stake to the U.S. government. Sources told the Financial Times today that the ChatGPT developer’s executives made the suggestion during

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

New York Times: President Trump says Micron will invest 250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a 250 deposit in some US states — President Trump said the

Sam Altman / Financial Times: Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI available to allies — The labs devel

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

The Information: Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal — A British law firm h

Bloomberg: Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~3B in a funding round expected to value the company in the ~30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October — Crusoe, the data center upstart wi

Bloomberg: Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~22B; it was valued at 11B in February — ElevenLabs has held early ta

Bloomberg: Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank is in talks to raise money at an 8B+ valuation, up from 4.35B in 2025; its deposits are up from 1.1B in March to 4.05B — Erebor Bank is in talks to rais

Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincided with suspicious Kalshi wagers — Pl

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

This article outlines three key questions organizations should address when scaling AI initiatives from pilot projects to production impact. Based on the Databricks focus, it likely covers questions r

Bloomberg: The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android market power should stand — Google lost its long-running fi

Joe Warminsky / The Record: The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks — A 19-year-old

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Travel app Hopper agrees to a 35M FTC settlement over allegations the company misled users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs — Hopper, the trav

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

Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: UK-based StirlingX, which develops secure data intelligence systems for defense and critical infrastructure, raised a 20M Series A, following a 11M seed — The UK company, whic

The 2026 Volvo EX30 Cross Country is a small electric SUV that is a joy to drive with a stylish cabin, though the rugged Cross Country variant sacrifices only modest range compared to the standard mod

Christopher Beam / Bloomberg: A look at Manifest, an annual convention for prediction markets where many purists worry that Kalshi and Polymarket are undermining the technology's public good — At Mani

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: A researcher says a vulnerability in Apple's Hide My Email tool lets anyone see a user's real email address; first reported in June 2025, Apple has not fixed it — “Hide My Emai

The Viking 1 lander used its robotic arm to perform the first Martian soil sample analysis , collecting samples for biological experiments that involved scooping soil and testing it with nutrient solu

Amazon Web Services Inc. is reinventing the way data-intensive analytical workloads are handled by the Amazon OpenSearch Service with the launch of a new, purpose-built log analytics engine today. The

Decision Execution Platforms represent an evolution beyond traditional dashboards by enabling organizations to not only visualize data insights but also automatically trigger and execute business deci

Peter Millard / Bloomberg: ByteDance is building a 39B data center complex in a free-trade zone in Brazil's Ceará, set to be its largest facility outside of China with a 1GW capacity — The TikTok crea

This Databricks article discusses advanced forecasting techniques and tools designed to meet the rapid decision-making demands of contemporary retail operations. It likely covers how modern retailers

This Databricks resource explains how to implement granular usage attribution in dbt data transformation pipelines using query tags, enabling detailed tracking of compute resources and costs at a fine

Bloomberg: How a new Amazon-built transatlantic fiber-optic link in Ireland is symbolic of the country's AI ambitions, but also of its chronic lack of defense spending — A new Amazon transatlantic fib

Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: How the rapid rise in US- and China-made AI abilities is leading to both a transformation in AI use at work, and sudden lurches in policies and markets — How work cha

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire — Vinton Cerf will

Christopher Nolan directs and writes The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, the king of Ithaca , in a film set for release on July 17, 2026 . The final trailer arrives directly from the Trojan

Nikkei Asia: Japan commits up to 6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 — TOKYO — Japan will provide up

Marko Zivkovic / AppleInsider: Leaked Apple supplier docs show iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max may use Qualcomm modems in the US and Apple's own C2 chips elsewhere, A20 Pro packaging tech, and more — After

Financial Times: Letter: the US says Anthropic “agreed to proactively detect and address security risks” of Fable 5 and Mythos 5; a source says Anthropic developed a “safeguard” — US government move a

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Meta introduces a 20/month Meta One Premium tier for its glasses and limits its Conversation Focus feature to three hours of use per month for free users — “All AI glasses

Sara Fischer / Axios: Meta names Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz as its first-ever chief data officer, to manage AI analytics across the company, and names Denise Moreno as CMO — Meta has named i

Meta Platforms Inc. reportedly plans to rent its artificial intelligence infrastructure to other companies. Sources told Bloomberg and CNBC today that the Facebook parent will sell excess capacity not

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman acknowledged the May 28, 2026 New Glenn rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral, noting that spaceflight development is extraordinarily difficult and pledging NASA's suppo

A NASA Office of Inspector General audit released June 30 found that Boeing's Starliner capsule will not achieve human-rating certification until 2027 at the earliest , representing a significant dela

Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Oxmiq, which aims to combine GPUs, CPUs, and a tensor engine into a single block of IP that it can license, raised 35M led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fudomo — Artificial in