Knowledge catalogue
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pickers on platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere — GIFs are a huge part of th
Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future competition from AI travel agents — Chatb
Bloomberg: How Spain's LaLiga uses nationwide IP blocking to combat illegal sports streams, impacting an estimated 550K+ domains, putting it in conflict with Cloudflare — From small businesses to gove
Bloomberg: Lime raised 174M in its US IPO, selling 6.68M shares at 25 each, at the midpoint of the marketed range, giving Lime a market value of 1.6B — Neutron Holdings Inc., better known as Lime, and
Ryan Lawler / Axios: MDOTM, which makes AI software for asset and wealth managers, raised 27M led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to 36.5M — MDOTM, which makes AI software for
Reuters: Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details — China's food delivery giant Me
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a 31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to 41.5M — The AI-driven
Josh Scott / BetaKit: Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which is building software, sensors, and drones to autonomously monitor the Arctic, raised a CA139M Series A led by Georgian — Six months after cl
Lisa Bonos / Inc: Pie, a startup that uses AI to optimize marketing for brick-and-mortar small businesses, emerges from stealth with a $19.5M Series A led by Lightspeed — Pie, which spent the past yea
Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: Political campaign managers and consultants are using AI to analyze voter data, create campaign materials, and more; survey: 87% of campaigners use AI daily — A.I.
Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning Grindr into an “AI-native company”, “impos[ing]” AI on staff, facing “opposition”, using AI as a CEO, and more — George Ari
Frank Connelly / Bloomberg: Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a 3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva — Schneider
Mike Scarcella / Reuters: SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 contempt ruling in its Epic case after a district judge found Apple violated an order to make App Store changes — The U.S. Supr
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference — We closely track efforts b
Nikkei Asia: Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026 shipment targets, with Xiaomi cutting 30% to ~95M units — TAIPEI — Major Chinese sma
Bloomberg: Sources: Kalshi agreed to pay 20M to sponsor the World Cup knockouts, after initially balking at FIFA's 150M asking price, alongside ADI Predictstreet — When the World Cup knockout round be
Bobby Allyn / NPR: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, before directing Meta employees to build a prediction market app — Before Meta CEO Ma
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Sources: Microsoft plans to announce job cuts next week affecting less than 2.5% of its 220,000-person workforce, including roles in sales, consulting, and Xbox — -
Politico: Sources: the Trump administration plans to lift export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 as early as Tuesday evening, making it available to all general users — Anthropic and the administr
Bloomberg: Sources: TikTok settles a lawsuit before a second California trial over social media harm to minors for an undisclosed sum; Meta and Snap remain defendants — TikTok is finalizing a settleme
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: SpaceX cuts monthly Starlink prices in half in the Memphis area, as it endures blowback and legal challenges from opponents of its Colossus data centers — SpaceX is offering
John Harney / Bloomberg: The DOD seeks to recruit engineers experienced in frontier AI, machine learning and automation, and data systems, to embed them “down to the unit level” — The Trump administra
Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment “steering” rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it “already made the changes” — Britain's com
Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons raised 1.68B by selling 58M shares at 29 each, valuing it at ~18.4B, in one of the largest US IPOs by a European company in 2026 — Bending Spoons
Kyle Baird / The Block: Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves — Quick Take — Paym
Max Miller / Engadget: A look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K+ AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock — “You can't get
Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Next Platform: Academic papers and conference materials offer a deep dive into China's all-CPU LineShine, which pairs custom 304-core Arm CPUs with HBM to top the Top500
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Adobe: online spending across all retailers in the US hit 26.4B during Amazon's four-day Prime Day event, up 9.3% YoY; Walmart and Target also hosted sales — Online spending
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO — Chamath Palihapitiya,
Mark Maurer / Wall Street Journal: AI is forcing consulting firms to shift from hourly billing to fixed-fee or outcome-based pricing, a transition proving slow and difficult for the industry — As AI t
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: AI leaderboard provider Arena says it hit $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching AI Evaluations, which offers performance analytics — Just eight
Victoria Albert / Wall Street Journal: An interview with Axon CEO Rick Smith, who transformed the Taser maker into a policing software company, as its revenue from AI policing tools rises 700%+ YoY —
Bloomberg: As a new law bars DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms drop companies like Alibaba and Tencent — Washington's most powerful
Peter Vercoe / Bloomberg: Australia's ACCC sues Amazon for allegedly introducing ads to Prime Video under unfair contract terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them — Amazon.com
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Baz releases Baz Planner, which uses four specialized AI agents to analyze code at the planning stage, and extends its seed funding by 9M to 17M — Agentic coding startup
Christine Mui / Politico: California strikes a deal with Anthropic to expand the use of Claude products across state agencies and local governments at a 50% discount — “A lot of departments are going
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: Changpeng Zhao says Binance's MiCA application in Greece was fully compliant and close to approval by at least one EU regulator but “other forces” opposed it — Quick Take
Bloomberg: Chinese robotics startup AI² Robotics raised ~736M at a ~2.9B valuation; Alibaba-backed X Square Robot raised an undisclosed amount at a ~2.9B valuation — Two Chinese robotics startups have
David Keohane / Financial Times: Dealogic: Japan saw 18 IPOs in H1 2026, the lowest since 2011, despite stock market surges, partly due to Japan's lack of AI, data center, and chip startups — Tokyo's
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: DeepSeek details DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models, saying it speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and was tested on Gemma and Qwen — Chin
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Digital Realty says it plans to acquire a majority stake in three fully leased Northern Virginia data centers from Blackstone-managed funds in a $7.8B deal — Digital Realty (
James Hunt / The Block: Filing: Strategy paused its bitcoin acquisitions last week, instead topping up its USD reserve to 2.55B and announcing a 1B digital credit buyback program — Quick Take — Strate
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Google says the Gemini app now offers personalized Nano Banana image generation, previously limited to Plus, Pro, and Ultra users, to eligible US users for free — Google
Matt Burgess / Wired: Google VP of Security Engineering Heather Adkins warns the EU's DMA proposals to open Android and Search could lead to a significant rise in fraud within weeks — Europe's pro-com
David Segal / New York Times: How a Polymarket dispute over a single syllable ignited a bitter debate; Polymarket uses Risk Labs' Optimistic Oracle to decide ~200K tough call bets per month — In mid-A
Sam Fleming / Financial Times: How the UK is betting on IT and AI to combat slow economic and productivity growth, including moving beyond the Golden Triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge — Region
Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: In Q2, there were thirteen 1B+ US venture-backed startup exits, either through acquisition or IPO, the most exits since the 2021 market peak — Startup exits valued at
Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal documents: Meta is placing strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division can use Claude Code and Codex, fearing inadvertent distillation — As Meta Pl
Bloomberg: Japanese prediction market startups Miraima and Poyp are utilizing a “point-to-voucher” system to bypass strict anti-gambling laws, in a bid to rival Polymarket — Homegrown platforms, banne
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg: Marc Andreessen is appointed to the DOD's Defense Policy Board, a committee tasked with giving strategic advice to the defense secretary and other top officials — Billionaire
Bloomberg: Nebex, a fintech startup aiming to act as a broker platform connecting US space tech suppliers, foreign governments, and investors, raised a 30M seed led by GV — Alphabet Inc.'s GV venture
Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI teases a device it is launching in partnership with keyboard maker Work Louder on July 15, saying “Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade” — A new video sho
Laura Kreutzer / Wall Street Journal: Quantifind, whose AI products help banks combat financial crimes such as money laundering, raised $200M led by Summit Partners — Its Graphyte platform aims to hel
Emma Roth / The Verge: Rocket Lab plans to acquire Iridium for $8B and combine Rocket Lab's launch services with Iridium's satellite-based communications network to rival SpaceX — Iridium's constellat
NPR: SCOTUS finds that Trump's 2025 firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter without cause was lawful, placing independence of several agencies in doubt — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday
TechCrunch: SCOTUS limits the law enforcement use of “geofence” warrants, saying people have “a reasonable expectation of privacy” in their cell-phone location data — Zack Whittaker Lorenzo Franceschi
Kif Leswing / CNBC: Soaring memory costs are posing existential threats to small electronics makers, amid thin margins, low supply chain leverage, and little room for price hikes — Earlier this year,
Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Source: Taiwanese authorities raided Super Micro's Taiwan office as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia chips to China; SMCI closed down 8.1% — Super Micro Compu
Semafor: Source: the Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating shares to Trump Accounts, which provide children with tax-advantaged savings accounts — THE SCOOP — The Trump administra
The Information: Sources: AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise 300M to 500M at a 5B pre-money valuation, more than 4x its valuation in a January 2026 round — AI video startup Higgsfield AI