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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

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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.

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Z.ai launches ZCode, an “Agentic Development Environment” optimized for its new GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan costs from 16.20 to 144 per month — The move marks th

Team Aligned Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to streamline deal execution for corporate buyers and sellers, said today it has clinched 60 million in a new round of funding. PeakSpan

Together AI announced an $800 million Series C funding round to support its mission of advancing open-source artificial intelligence development and deployment. The funding will be used to accelerate

The 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge recognized and celebrated winning startups that built innovative solutions using the Databricks data and AI platform. The competition showcased emerging

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

Lambda Labs presented a keynote address at the ALVR (Augmented Language and Vision Research) workshop, which was held in conjunction with ACL 2026, a major computational linguistics conference. The pr

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

Bloomberg: Taiwanese authorities detain two Super Micro staff and an Albatron manager after a raid of Super Micro's local offices this week over Nvidia shipments to China — Taiwanese prosecutors detai

After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access W

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams — As compa

Couchbase Inc. is trying to solve one of the hardest problems in enterprise artificial intelligence today: turning brittle, chat-style pilots into production-grade agents capable of remembering, reaso

Wall Street Journal: Filings: Microsoft's Ireland hub generated $47B in pretax profits for FY 2025, or 38.1% of its global total; new EU rules require country-by-country reporting — Country-by-country

Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: Getty Images announces plans to end its Shutterstock merger after the UK CMA conditioned approval of the deal on Shutterstock selling its editorial business — A