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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

New renderings of SpaceX's AI satellite, called AI1. • AI chip vendor agnostic. System architecture supports compute modules from any provider. • 150 kW peak compute payload • 120 kW average compute p

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,

Yohei Nakajima shares his current investment pipeline and opportunities he's evaluating, providing insight into the types of ventures and sectors capturing his attention as an investor. The post likel

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

The New York Times and several news outlets are accusing OpenAI of hiding its ability to search its AI training data and output logs for more than two years during an ongoing copyright lawsuit: • The

The upcoming wave of SpaceXAI Grok updates is insane Grok 4.5: The 1.5T foundation model is being refined almost daily, and its context window is expected to jump to 1M tokens, possibly as soon as nex

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

BREAKING: SpaceX’s Starship just got another lunar customer. Japan’s ispace will use SpaceX’s Starship for Moon cargo missions. • ispace signed an agreement with SpaceX to secure 500 kg of payload cap

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

Correct Grok 4.5 goes public tomorrow. Here’s everything that’s known. The model runs on V9, xAI’s new 1.5 trillion parameter foundation, roughly three times the size of the v8-small architecture behi

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

The soundbite is from my US congress testimony 3 years ago btw haha https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1673348676478025730 This is my 5-minute testimony before the US Congress! Open science and open

We raised 130M @ 1B for our series A To build the open superintelligence stack for everyone Pre-training concentrated frontier AI in a handful of labs. RL changes who can build frontier AI and just wo

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

A recent NYT article by @CadeMetz [1] claims that neural network distillation was first developed in 2015 by a team of Google researchers including G. Hinton [2]. Not true! I published the technique i

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

DOGE shut down USAID, established by JFK in 1961. Before being shut down, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was the largest funding agency for humanitarian and development aid worldw

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

Hello, my dear friends, we have some breaking news today! Our rentosertib (novel target that has never been in clinical trials before we picked it using AI, novel molecule designed using true generati

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

Gary Marcus reflects on his 2023 prediction that large language models would become commoditized, noting that this outcome is now materializing. The post suggests that LLMs are transitioning from nove

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

The glorification of insider trading is a disturbing new trend that I’ll never understand Be leopold > wife is chief of staff at Anthropic > get insider info at the dinner table > learn that Anthropic

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

This post likely discusses FireworksAI's fast inference capabilities and their implications or surprising effectiveness in the AI inference space. The post is from Sonya Huang, associated with SemiAna

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

Groq Founder @JonathanRoss321 explains why all the West Coast VCs missed on investing in Groq: “Typical West Coast VCs are more like lemmings. Ttypical East Coast VCs all think that they're smarter th

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

When people discuss China vs. US competition over AI it would help if they specified the grounds of competition because there are divergent beliefs on what the actual game is, or if there is a game at