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Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying it will waive 100% of Windsurf employees' vesting cliffs and give them “fully accelerated vesting for their work to date” — The deal follows Google's $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.
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| Yash Roy / Bloomberg: |
Republican House leaders expect to pass the GENIUS Act this week, sending Congress' first crypto legislation to the president, and vote on two more crypto bills — Republican House leaders anticipate passing an industry-friendly stablecoin regulatory bill this week, sending Congress's …
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| Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin hit an all-time high at $122,000+ on July 14, up ~30% since January 2025, after more than doubling in 2024; ether hit $3,000+, and altcoins are also up — Bitcoin breached $120,000 for the first time, with investor enthusiasm showing few signs of dimming as the US House …
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| Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar: |
An interview with Google President of Android Ecosystem Sameer Samat, who says Google is “going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform” — On Gemini, Samsung, Galaxy AI, Glass, XR, and more — My conversation with Sameer Samat, Android's daddy...er …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
An Indicator analysis of 85 AI “nudify” websites: they average 18.5M monthly visitors, may make up to $36M annually combined, and rely on Big Tech's services — Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.
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| Deborah Sophia / Reuters: |
The US DOD announces OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have each won contracts with a $200M ceiling, aimed at enabling agentic AI national security workflows — OpenAI, Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), Anthropic and Elon Musk's AI firm xAI have won contracts aimed at scaling up adoption …
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| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building several multi-gigawatt “clusters”, starting with Prometheus, a massive datacenter that is scheduled to come online in 2026 — Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company is building several massive data centers … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon launches Kiro, an IDE that aims to bridge the gap between rapidly vibe-coded prototypes and production systems with specs, testing, and documentation — A new AI coding tool from Amazon uses agents to automatically create and update project plans and technical blueprints … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Jensen Huang says China's military will avoid using Nvidia's AI chips, citing the risks associated with US export restrictions limiting the chips “at any time” — Addressing the largest concern Washington has cited in placing increasing restrictions on US technology exports to the Asian nation … | Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Sources: Meta's new superintelligence lab led by Alexandr Wang discussed abandoning its top open-source model, Behemoth, in favor of developing a closed model — Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta's most powerful open source … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server to let Canva users manage designs in Claude, following Claude integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, Prisma, and others — The new integration allows Claude users to create, resize, and summarize Canva content using text prompts.| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Crypto asset manager Grayscale confidentially files draft IPO paperwork with the US SEC, offering few details; the DCG subsidiary manages $30B+ in BTC and ETH — - Grayscale's confidential filing signals the next major U.S. crypto IPO after Circle's debut and could gauge renewed investor demand.| The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance is working on a lightweight MR device that resembles goggles, tethered to a compute puck, and has a team working on the device's custom chips — Competition in mixed reality devices is heating up. — TikTok's parent, ByteDance, is working on a lightweight mixed reality device …
More: Android Authority
| Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: |
Tesla is set to face a Florida federal jury to defend allegations that Autopilot was at fault in a fatal 2019 crash, as it tests autonomous robotaxis in Austin — The trial could dissect Tesla's automated driving technology in public just as a more advanced version starts to ferry passengers on public roads.
More: The Verge, Electrek, New York Times, Bloomberg, Mashable, The Detroit News, Newser, TESLARATI, Sherwood News, and EV
Forums: r/RealTesla, r/SelfDrivingCars, and r/RealTesla
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Adobe Analytics: Amazon's four-day Prime Day event drove $24.1B in US e-commerce sales, up 30.3% YoY; generative AI traffic to US retail sites was up 3,300% YoY — Amazon's Prime Day, which leads to an overall boost to U.S. e-commerce thanks to competitive sales, saw a significant increase …
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