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July 9, 2026, 1:10 AM
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Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg:
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 …
OpenAI:
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
Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View:
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
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
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 …
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Block agrees to pay $45M and offer live customer support for Cash App to settle claims by 46 US states that the company failed to protect users from fraud  —  Block (XYZ.N) has agreed to pay $45 million and offer live customer support for its mobile payment service, Cash App …
Boone Ashworth / Wired:
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.
Cognition:
Cognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7 and available at 1,000 tokens/second, claiming it nears GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on benchmarks at a lower cost  —  Today, we're launching SWE-1.7, the most capable model we've trained so far.  It reaches frontier-level intelligence at a much lower cost …
New York Times:
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.
Bloomberg:
Shanghai-based GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX raised ~$902M in a Hong Kong share sale; the company's stock has soared 257% since its January IPO, which raised $473M  —  Shanghai Iluvatar CoreX Semiconductor Co. raised about $902 million from a share sale in Hong Kong after its stock soared since an initial public offering in January.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
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 …
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
Companies are mobilizing internal groups of “AI champions” to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025  —  Companies are increasingly mobilizing internal groups of AI ‘champions’ as a way to sell their more reluctant colleagues on the technology's benefits
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
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 …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~$750M in two phases, at valuations of $3.5B in the first tranche and ~$5B in the second  —  AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise about $750 million in financing during a round with two phases, part of a groundswell …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
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 …
The Information:
Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds of millions at a $9B valuation; source: founder Marc Lore indicated he'll contribute $200M to the round  —  Wonder, the owner of GrubHub and Blue Apron, is lining up hundreds of millions of dollars, at a valuation of $9 billion, in what could be its last round before going public.
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
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 …

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Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Sources: the Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes' publisher, EIC, and a Middle East reporter for insubordination; the publisher earlier announced his retirement

Matt Sledge / The Intercept:
A new nonprofit launched a text campaign to pressure California's AG to drop a challenge against the Paramount-WBD deal; critics call it corporate astroturf

Jim Sciutto / CNN:
An interview with Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery, sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Iranian court for her work documenting life under the regime

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Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET:
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
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
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

Earlier Picks

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
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”
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
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
Bloomberg:
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
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