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Sources: SpaceX has agreed to invest $2B in xAI, as part of xAI's $5B equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month — The startup is leaning on Musk's business empire to play catch-up in the AI race — Elon Musk's SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
xAI apologizes for Grok's “horrific behavior” when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames “an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot” — In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.”
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| Jacob Silverman / The Nation: |
There's little evidence that UAE-based Aqua 1 Foundation, the largest investor in Trump's World Liberty Financial after buying tokens worth $100M, exists at all — The strange saga of a shadowy UAE company's $100 million investment in World Liberty Financial, the Trump-aligned crypto trader
More: Reuters, Forbes, Gizmodo, CoinDesk, and Cryptopolitan
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| Financial Times: |
Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish — Inside the former social media CEO's tumultuous partnership with the world's richest man — Hannah Murphy in San Francisco … | Simon Alvarez / Teslarati: |
Tesla rolls out Grok to some vehicles with an AMD infotainment chip; Grok comes pre-installed on new vehicles and cannot issue commands to the vehicle itself — All new Tesla vehicles delivered on or after July 12, 2025, will include Grok AI out of the box
More: The Verge, Electrek, Redmond Pie, CleanTechnica, EV, and TheTruthAboutCars
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Stanford study: LLMs struggle to respond appropriately to questions about delusions, suicide, and OCD, but AI could play valuable supportive roles to therapists — When Stanford University researchers asked ChatGPT whether it would be willing to work closely with someone who had schizophrenia … | David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: |
Berlin-based CarOnSale, a B2B marketplace for used car trading across Europe offering vehicle inspections and more, raised a €70M Series C led by Northzone — German CarOnSale, a digital B2B marketplace for used car trading, has successfully closed a €70 million Series C round … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
NYC-based Vellum, which develops enterprise development tools for building, testing, and deploying AI-powered apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Leaders Fund — Vocify Inc., also known as Vellum, a leading enterprise development platform for building, testing and deploying artificial …
More: Vellum AI, Unite.AI, The American Bazaar, Axios, VC News Daily, FinSMEs, dot.LA, and New York Business Journal
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Parspec, whose AI-powered workflow tool automates procurement processes in the construction supply chain, raised a $20M Series A led by Threshold Ventures — Parspec, a startup using artificial intelligence to improve efficiency in the construction industry supply chain … | DDIA: |
Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90%+ of submitted notes are never published, with many notes “stuck in limbo” — 1. INTRODUCTION — As social media companies face the need to curb the spread of rapidly evolving online harms on their platforms …
More: Agence France-Presse and Al Jazeera
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Samsung agrees to acquire Seattle-based Xealth, which helps healthcare providers manage digital health tools and has raised over $50M, for an undisclosed sum — Samsung Electronics is acquiring Seattle-based digital health startup Xealth, aiming to expand its footprint in healthcare.
More: Samsung Newsroom, The Korea Times, Healthcare Dive, SammyGuru, Pulse 2.0, MedCity News, and Constellation Research. LinkedIn: Jonathan Machado
| Derek Newton / Forbes: |
Honor Education, an e-learning service for individuals and enterprises founded by former Dean of Apple University Joel Podolny, raised a $38M Series A — I write about education, edtech and higher educat Honor Education, a skills and mindset learning platform for individuals and enterprise …
More: Pulse 2.0, VC News Daily, FinSMEs, and Honor Education
LinkedIn: Joel Podolny and Honor Education
| Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal: |
With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers — Two Trump visits span city's legacy industry, higher-tech pursuits — PITTSBURGH—Two months ago, President Trump stood in a cavernous …
More: Technical.ly
| Matthew King / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at US-backed NVD, as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K+ vulnerabilities, ~10x the previous high in 2017 — Every day, billions of people trust digital systems to run everything from communication to commerce to critical infrastructure.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
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IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.Featured Podcasts
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