Sources: Kimi developer Moonshot told investors it is preparing for a Hong Kong IPO in as early as six months; its ARR hit $300M in June, up from $200M in April
Moonshot AI has told investors it's preparing to list in as early as six months, seizing the opportunity to tap capital markets …
UK's incoming PM Andy Burnham is expected to scrap Keir Starmer's plans for digital ID cards; last year a petition opposing the cards attracted ~3M signatures
Incoming PM will reallocate unspecified resources from unpopular plan to helping with cost of living
Grassroots org HumansFirst says it organized 142 protests across 42 US states on July 18 against what it calls the “unaccountable” buildout of data centers
Opponents of the rapid buildout of data centers held 142 protests across 42 states on Saturday in the first nationwide effort …
Kalshi and Polymarket bets on the FIFA World Cup final top $5.69B; Dune Analytics says total wagers on the platforms surpassed $50B for the first time in June
When Argentina and Spain take the field on Sunday for the World Cup final, more than $5.69 billion will be riding on the winner …
Alibaba launches a 2.4T parameter Qwen3.8 Max preview that it says rivals frontier AI models and is second only to Fable 5, plans to make it “open-weight soon”
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. launched a preview version of its flagship Qwen3.8 Max model, which it described as comparable …
Analysis finds 60+ “jacket apps” on the App Store disguised as simple games and utilities that become gambling apps when accessed from Brazilian IP addresses
An investigation by 9to5Mac reveals dozens of apps that disguise gambling platforms as simple games and utilities.
Sources: Apple is piloting a system in Apple Stores called Live Notes that lets Genius Bar staff make transcripts and summaries of conversations with customers
Also: The company tries out AI recording for Genius Bar appointments. — This week, we'll look at why Apple's massive lawsuit …
AI is reshaping entry-level professional services jobs, as companies redesign hiring, training, and workplace culture rather than simply cut junior roles
Here are the ways leading companies are already responding to the AI revolution in professional services
Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach
Earlier this week, we detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure.
A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops
Last year, Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop quickly became one of my favorite thin-and-light Windows notebooks.
Prediction market political betting on insider info spreads in DC; sources: WH lawyers raised alarms over anonymous Polymarket bets on the Iran ceasefire timing
White House officials are grappling with how deeply political betting has worked itself into fabric of government
SEC filing: GameStop says it owns 9.8% of eBay, signaling its intent to press ahead with a bid for the company after its unsolicited $56B offer was rejected
Big US pizza delivery chains are struggling as apps such as DoorDash and Uber Eats give independent pizzerias and other restaurants greater market access
Large corporate chains lose their edge as services such as DoorDash and Uber Eats level the playing field
A profile of businessman Sebastian Rucci, whose past ventures were subject to legal probes, as he bids to build California's biggest data center, a $10B project
Sebastian Rucci's past has become a theme in opposition to his proposal. He counters: 'Do I look like a guy that's going away?'
A look at AI's potential impact on insurance-coverage decisions like prior authorization as the Trump admin starts to pilot using AI to evaluate Medicare claims
If you're like me, you or a loved one has struggled through the process of gaining pre-approval for the medical care that your physician has recommended.
Moonshot AI pauses new subscriptions, saying that over the past two days Kimi K3 demand nearly passed the limit of its capacity, and also reworks its plan tiers
Kimi K3 has received far more love than we expected, and our GPUs are feeling it. Over the past 48 hours, demand has pushed close to the limits of our current capacity. To protect the experience of ex...
Sources: CIA operative Jonny Gannon spied on G42 to probe its China ties and helped the UAE gain expanded access to US AI chips by allaying US suspicions
While conducting espionage against powerful sheikh's tech company, Jonny Gannon helped Gulf country quash Washington suspicions about China ties
Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits from July 20 and via usage credits for Pro and Team Standard users
As many companies cut AI costs by using cheaper models, some, like Shopify, go all-in on frontier models, barring engineers from using anything else
Despite steep and rising price tags, some companies heavily favor the more powerful ‘frontier’ AI systems over cheaper alternatives
Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC
Japan is planning to buy 27,500 next-generation Rubin chips from Nvidia Corp. to build a homegrown foundational AI model for robots.
Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more
Building an AI supercampus increasingly means paying more than you bargained for. Oracle's attempt to salvage a proposed $165 billion project …
Analysis: OpenAI and Anthropic employees are donating to campaigns more heavily and cohesively than Google, Meta, and Airbnb employees did post-IPO
San Francisco is still waiting for the AI IPOs — the wave of money from Anthropic and OpenAI millionaires and billionaires that is likely …
London-based Risk Ledger, which helps organizations manage supply chain cyber risks, raised a £24M Series B led by Axiom Equity, taking total funding to £33.8M
How the Trump administration shifted from a “light-touch” approach to AI policy to an interventionist stance that led to restrictions on top AI models in the US
In January 2025, just three days after entering office for his second term, President Donald Trump signed …
Kimi K3 hype shouldn't alarm the US about “losing the AI race” to China; K3 is a good model but not frontier-level and likely lacks dangerous cyber capabilities
and Washington — quakingCNBC:Chinese AI has leveled up, and brought renewed focus on the open weight model shiftNat Rubio-Licht /The Deep View:The catch behind Kimi K3's benchmark leapReed Albergotti ...
Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona
Feathery, which develops an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including a recently completed Series A
Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M
Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA
The firm's chip unit T-Head aims to lower migration barriers to Zhenwu AI computing architectures, following similar initiatives by Huawei and Moore Threads
Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025
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