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Zinnia Lee / Forbes: Shenzhen-listed RoboTechnik, which claims to be the largest silicon photonics tool maker and whose stock is up 340% over the past year, files for a HK listing — RoboTechnik Intell

Meir Orbach / CTech: Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of AI tools, for ~$205M in cash — Deal expands Zero T

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Source: Kraken cut ~150 staff after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO may be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to a drop in digital-asset prices — Kraken, one o

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools to create clones of people's voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg had raised roughly $4M — The acqu

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, featuring a host of automated services like bookkeeping functions, business insights, and tools for ad campaigns — Anthropic is

Emma Roth / The Verge: Netflix says its ad tier now has 250M monthly active viewers, up from 94M in 2025, and is expanding to 15 new countries, as it tests an ad personalization tool — The streaming s

Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more — ZDNET key takeaways — Google par

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Google's TIG says it likely thwarted the use of an AI-generated zero-day in a “mass exploitation event” and tools like OpenClaw are being used to find exploits — Google's Threat

Socket: Several npm packages for the TanStack web development tools were compromised in the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack; Mistral packages were also affected — - Immediate triage: Run shasum -a

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Researchers: 5,000+ web apps built using AI coding tools like Lovable, Base44, and Replit have little to no authentication, and ~40% exposed sensitive data — Companies like Lov

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots — Social media platfo

Kaspersky researchers discovered a supply chain attack targeting the official Daemon Tools website, where compromised installers deliver a backdoor alongside legitimate software, enabling remote code

New York Times: Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas to be worth 3B+ in 2026, out of a 14B+ total microdrama market, boosted by tools like Seedance 2.0 — This actor was just hitting h

Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times: How AI tools such as Naver's Talking Buddy and SuperBrain are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies, and slow cognitive decline — In the wor

Ellen Cushing / The Atlantic: How “emotion AI”, the use of facial and sentiment analysis tools to track workers' moods, is seeping into white-collar jobs amid concerns over privacy and bias — The good

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: How music streaming services are adapting to the rise of AI-generated music by labeling, deranking, and demonetizing tracks, using AI detection tools, and more — The use

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a deal for a 1.5B JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and others to sell AI tools to PE-backed companies — Anthropic, Blackston

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Tim Cook says that the Mac Studio and the Mac mini, which many are buying for AI and agentic tools, “may take several months to reach supply demand balance” — During today's e

The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a mo

Jigar Thakkar / About Amazon: AWS launches a desktop app for its Amazon Quick AI assistant, letting users connect their tools and local files to build custom apps, live dashboards, and more — Amazon Q

Matt Day / Bloomberg: AWS launches Amazon Connect Decisions and Amazon Connect Talent, which are AI agentic tools aimed at logistics workers and recruiters — Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud unit, best known f

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and which offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a 100M Series B at a 2B valuation — Parallel

Kaye Wiggins / Financial Times: Anthropic and law firm Freshfields sign a deal to develop specialized legal AI tools for document drafting, contract review, due diligence, and more — Tech group will t

Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: Netherlands-based ASM, whose deposition tools are used to make advanced chips, projects Q2 revenue of ~€980M, above €886.8M est., driven by AI demand — ASM International NV pr

OpenAI: OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Clinicians, a tool for medical tasks like documentation and research, free for verified physicians, pharmacists, and more in the US — Built for clinical work, ChatG

On Substack: Substack adds translation tools, and says ~100K publishers earn on the platform, including ~30K outside the US; European creators earn $90M+/year collectively — Who changed your life toda

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: AcuityMD, which provides AI tools that automate sales call recaps, CRM data entry, and more for medtech companies, raised an 80M Series C at a 955M valuation — Medtech softw

Tiffany Ng / Wired: How GrapheneOS lead developer Daniel Micay's legal fights with his former partner James Donaldson over CopperheadOS led to the privacy-focused tool's creation — There's a lot of lo

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools — Everyone said AI

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Vercel says its internal systems were accessed via a compromised third-party AI tool, after a user with a ShinyHunters handle claimed a breach on BreachForums — Clo

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will give AI agents access to Salesforce's platform capabilities through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands — Salesforce

Fiona Kelliher / MIT Technology Review: How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels — EXECUTIVE SUMMAR

Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: Companies that hire young “AI natives” have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight — The promises

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages — In Febru

Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times: AI penetration testing company CodeWall says its agent was able to hack into one of Bain's internal AI tools, following a similar hack at McKinsey in March — CodeWa

Tristan Anthony / Business Insider: Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, adding AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users — - Ant

A proposed class action against Sharp HealthCare alleges that clinicians used an AI scribe tool to record patient visits without patient consent, placing California's privacy regulations under rene...

Written by: Kelli Vanderlee, Stuart Carrera For years, the cybersecurity industry's understanding of software supply chain compromise has been anchored by a few watershed events, including Russian cyb

Creatio Inc. today introduced what it calls a major update to its customer relationship management and workflow platform that enables business users and information technology teams to build, deploy a

Written by: James Sadowski, Alden Wahlstrom Introduction Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the pro-Russia influence ecosystem has evolved from a tool of war back into a global s

CData Software Inc. today announced three products aimed at simplifying access to enterprise data for developers building artificial intelligence applications. They include a free Connect AI Developer

Security intelligence and management solutions company Exabeam Inc. today introduced Agent Behavior Verification, a pre-deployment security discipline for artificial intelligence agents, and released

Postgres database startup Supabase Inc. has closed on a 500 million late-stage investment that brings its valuation to a cool 10.5 billion, it revealed today. The company, which provides ready-to-use

Customer relationship management vendor HubSpot Inc. today introduced a set of product updates aimed at helping sales and marketing teams adapt to a shift in how buyers research and engage with vendor

Cloudflare Inc. today announced an expansion of its Agent Cloud with new features that are designed to help developers build, deploy and scale agents. The new release includes a suite of infrastructur

On August 10 2026 Google launched a suite of AI‑powered features for Google Ads and Google Analytics designed to automate routine tasks and deliver smarter campaign insights. These agentic experiences