Meta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews Muse Video, the first media generation models from its Superintelligence Labs
We're excited to launch Muse Image and preview Muse Video, the first media generation models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs.
Anthropic extends Claude Fable 5 access to all paid plans through July 12; access to the model was set to shift to token-based usage on July 7
Anthropic announced today that it is expanding Claude Cowork capabilities from the desktop app to the web and mobile.
Sources: China met with Alibaba, ByteDance, Z.ai, and others to discuss potentially limiting foreign access to advanced AI models, AI theft penalties, and more
Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about potentially restricting overseas access …
OpenAI says it will launch GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, publicly on Thursday; a source says the US Department of Commerce approved a broad rollout
The U.S. Department of Commerce has given OpenAI the green light for a broad launch of its advanced GPT-5.6 model …
Samsung announces a Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22 in London, where it's expected to debut three foldables, including a Fold 8 with a shorter and wider design
Samsung Electronics Co. will host its next Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22, when the leading foldable phone maker is expected …
OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time
A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice. — Sign up to be notified
Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard
Mark Zuckerberg's hardware ambitions are edging into a new privacy fight over who gets recorded. Meta is testing a prototype of …
Sources detail Xbox's big reset after its Game Pass strategy failed; Xbox spent nearly $80B on content deals, but gamers prefer to stick with a handful of games
Microsoft's Xbox to Cut 3,200 Jobs, Divest Studios in Overhaul. Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox spent nearly $80 billion in the last decade …
OpenAI Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam is leaving later this month after nearly nine years; in February, OpenAI disbanded the “mission alignment team” he led
Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.
The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years
After more than a decade of pushback, farmers and repair advocates have won access to equipment and services John Deere had long kept under its control.
Apple reaches a deal with Broadcom worth $30B+ to make 15B+ chips in the US over the next five years, Apple's largest as part of its $600B US investment pledge
The deal, for billions of chips, is the latest part of Apple's domestic investment pledge — Apple is ramping up its investment …
Sleep apnea device maker ResMed agrees to sell its software business MatrixCare to PE firm Frazier for $490M in cash; ResMed bought MatrixCare for $750M in 2018
ResMed (RMD.N) said on Tuesday it would sell its software business MatrixCare to private equity firm Frazier Healthcare Partners …
Chip startup SambaNova raised a $1B Series F led by General Atlantic at an $11B valuation and signs JPMorgan as a customer to deploy its chips for in-house AI
Chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation, underscoring investors' conviction …
Memo: SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, after pushing back the launch to improve model efficiency
SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, according to a memo sent to staff.
Sources: Apple begins testing CXMT's DRAM chips for devices sold in China; Apple's interest thrusts CXMT and CXMT's state-owned shareholders into the spotlight
Sharp turnaround for state-backed company central to Beijing's AI supply chain efforts — On a sprawling campus in the eastern Chinese city …
OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark
Through a detailed audit, we find widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro and estimate that ~30% of the tasks are broken.
Nvidia lost ~$1T in market value in less than two months, dropping 16% from its May all-time-high, trading at 18x forward earnings, its lowest level since 2019
After losing roughly $1 trillion in market value in less than two months, Nvidia Corp.'s stock is the cheapest it's been since …
Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct
Meta's AI expansion is heading north of the border. — The company said in a blog post on Wednesday that it's building its first data center …
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to “handle difficult, long-running” legal, finance, and coding tasks
SpaceXAI has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model built in partnership with AI coding startup Cursor that's meant …
Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a $300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures
- Oratomic raised a $300 million Series A to accelerate development of fault-tolerant, utility-scale quantum computers.
Sources: China plans to let some of its biggest AI companies buy a small number of Nvidia's H200 chips to offset a domestic computing shortage in recent months
China plans to allow some of the country's biggest AI companies to buy a small number of Nvidia's H200 chips, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
Google schedules its Made by Google 2026 event for August 12 in NYC, where it is set to debut the Pixel 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro XL, 11 Pro Fold, and Watch 5
The EU General Court dismisses Apple's legal challenges against its designation as a DMA “gatekeeper” for its App Store and iOS; Apple filed the case in 2024
Europe's second-highest court on Wednesday dismissed Apple's (AAPL.O) challenge against landmark EU rules labelling …
Netflix signs deals with Penske Media, Condé Nast, Hearst, People, and other publishers to carry a range of programming from 2 to 20+ minutes, starting August 3
DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block most video ads by default, including those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists
An unsubtle shot at Chrome. — DuckDuckGo announced that it can now block most video ads, particularly those on YouTube, when a video is playing in its browser.
A look at effective altruism's fall after SBF's arrest and how the soon-to-be rich from upcoming AI IPOs give the movement a chance to return larger than ever
Out of the spotlight, the movement has been preparing for the soon-to-be AI rich to donate billions.
Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people in 2026, as AI companies expand their NYC presence
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company, plans to lease a 16-story building in Hudson Square and to double its work force in New York City to 1,000 people this year.
Sources: MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model internally called M3 Pro, which it could release as early as Q3 as open source; M3 has 428B parameters
Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, larger than any other Chinese AI models currently …
Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to web and mobile in beta for Max plan subscribers, and says 90%+ of Cowork usage is unrelated to software development
Cowork is where you hand Claude a task, and it works across your files …Anamarija Pogorelec /Help Net Security:Claude Cowork turns your phone into a remote control for AI workAlex Heath /Sources:Anthr...
Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion
Paris-based Skello, an AI-powered HR management solution for frontline teams, announces a €200 million investment in order …
Israeli startup Velocity, which helps place targeted ads on consumer and B2B AI platforms, raised a $27M seed led by NFX and Red Dot, and serves 20 clients
Velocity, an Israeli startup placing ads in AI applications, closed a $27 million seed round led by NFX and Red Dot Capital Partners …
Omdia expects a 22%+ YoY drop in global shipments for <$400 smartphones in 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND prices; Q1 memory costs were nearly 60% of materials
In the first blog of this two-part series, Omdia explores how rising DRAM and NAND prices are reshaping smartphone economics …
China's CNVD says it found “security backdoor vulnerabilities” in Claude Code that can be used to send info like “user location and identity to remote servers”
It advised users to uninstall the software or update to its latest version
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 takeaways — Entire launched a decentralized Git network built for agents. — The company plans to open-source its backend.
Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent
Pushback to the tech group's politics may threaten the core of its $330bn business. The week after a US immigration enforcement officer killed …
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos
The rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos is set to take on external investors for the first time, at a $130 billion valuation. … Andrew here.
SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to raise ~$28B on the Nasdaq: highly leveraged to HBM, deep and broad China ties, and health and safety concerns
[Opinion] The world's second-largest memory chip maker has more stories than its F-1 filing reveals — SK Hynix is going big in America.
France's competition watchdog orders Meta to negotiate in good faith with news organizations over copyright payments, after two groups filed complaints in 2025
Meta Platforms Inc. was ordered by the French competition watchdog to hold talks with news organizations over copyright payments …
Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that uses a single camera and basic language prompts
Mistral AI announced a new robotics navigation model, as the French startup expands in the emerging field of physical artificial intelligence …
A look at Chinese lidar maker Hesai, blacklisted by the US DOD in 2024, as it expands in the US; Hesai says it has ~33% of the global automotive lidar market
Robots on the factory floor. Self-driving vehicles on the Las Vegas strip. Even a substitute for man's best friend — the robotic dog.LinkedIn:Scott Zamost.Forums:r/MVISLinkedIn:Scott Zamost:BLACKLIS...
Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation
Prime Intellect, a startup that provides computing power and specialized software tools that help companies build AI agents …
As part of Meta's Muse Image rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their Posts and Reels by other users
As part of Meta's Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
South Korea's Kospi index is down 20%+ from its record high in June, falling 5%+ on Wednesday; Samsung and SK Hynix fell 5%+ amid long-term chip deal concerns
Kospi retreats more than 20% from June peak as sentiment starts to turn on Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix
GM-backed Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta saw a muted trading debut in its Hong Kong IPO, up 2.8% to value the company at ~$9B, after raising $751M
Momenta's subdued start belied its strong investor demand — General Motors-backed Momenta's Hong Kong initial public offering …
Source: Kraken is pursuing a full banking license in Europe, focusing on Lithuania to secure it; Kraken would be the only crypto exchange with the designation
Meta says it will update its smart glasses with a new feature that disables the camera when it detects that someone tampered with the device's privacy LED light
The company is rolling out an update following increased scrutiny of its smart glasses. … Amid public backlash over its smart glasses …
Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture
The AI agent platform founded by monday.com alumni has reached $15 million in new revenue run rate after 800% revenue growth.
Sources: demand for Amazon's $25B bond offering peaked at $62B, with final orders dropping to ~$41B, bringing its bond issuance to ~$107B over the past year
The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro
The OpenAI Deployment Company agreed to acquire Northslope, an applied AI firm, OpenAI shared exclusively with Axios …
Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 Ventures
You know how we say we love the unsexy side of defense? Well, we're back with some news from the unsexiest place we can imagine …
Sources: Microsoft, looking to reduce AI costs, is starting to replace models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook
Study: 50 test accounts created in Australia across nine platforms were never asked to verify their age, despite the Australian law mandating a ban on under-16s
Lisbon-based Bizay, a customized products marketplace for SMBs, raised a $55M Series D led by Indico, as it aims to accelerate its US expansion
CPUs are now at the center of the AI race as Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, Arm, Google, Amazon, Chinese players, and others take on Intel and AMD in data centers
TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, California — The global AI boom is reshaping one of the semiconductor industry's most important battlegrounds: CPUs.
Filing: Chinese AI model maker Z.ai is seeking to raise ~$4B from the sale of 19.8M shares at ~$202 to ~$216 each, after its Hong Kong stock soared 1,400%+ YTD
Chinese artificial-intelligence model maker Zhipu is seeking to raise about $4 billion from a share sale after its stock soared almost 1,500% since …
Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds using its AI-based FlowGPT and Emochi tools, raised $60M from B Capital and others, and says Emochi has 2M DAUs
Kaon AI, a start-up focused on building personalized story worlds powered by generative AI for its users through its products FlowGPT and Emochi …
Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026
Amazon's next Alexa AI upgrade may be able to handle more complex tasks. Getting there is expensive, though.
Google launches “platform properties” in the Google Search Console, letting creators and website owners see which search terms lead to their social platforms
Norm, which runs an AI law firm that provides AI-powered legal services to clients alongside human lawyers, raised $120M led by Khosla at a $1.2B valuation
Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their hardware in a new system to power AI models, the latest example of Nvidia partnering with a chip rival
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, the venture firm founded to invest in cryptocurrency companies, has raised a new $1.2 billion fund to make more bets outside of the sector …
China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to raise around $890.37M in its Hong Kong share sale by offering 216.2M shares at ~$4.12/share, the top of its range
Super.com, which offers a savings app for lower-income consumers, raised a $65M Series D led by TPG at a $1.2B valuation and says it is profitable
EDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform, raised a $76M Series C led by SBI Holdings
Coinbase secures UK FCA authorization to offer investment services, enabling it to expand into derivatives and equities trading, its largest UK expansion yet
UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for autonomous “killer robots” to be “banned by international law”, a central issue in the US DOD-Anthropic clash
Tangos, which uses AI to conduct financial crime investigations at scale, raised a $20M seed led by Red Dot
US lawmakers are weighing strategies to curb US companies' growing adoption of Chinese AI models, as an ongoing House Committee investigation probes the risks
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Meta says Muse Image includes Content Seal, an invisible watermarking system, and previews a web tool that can check whether an image was generated with Meta AI
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Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens
Keyfactor, which manages billions of machine identities for more than 2,500 client organizations, raised $1B+ led by Summit Partners
OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users
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