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July 24, 2026, 8:15 AM
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18  —  OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans.
Phoebe Liu / The Information:
AMD is working with Cerebras to connect AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers, running their chips simultaneously to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86%  —  AMD said Thursday it is working with Cerebras, a rival AI server chip developer, on connecting AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Preliminary findings: the EU Commission says TikTok's accounts for minors violate the DSA, citing features that could expose children to bullying and predators  —  ByteDance's social media platform TikTok has been charged with breaching EU online content rules due to design features …
Zoe SL Chan / South China Morning Post:
Sources: Shanghai-based GPU maker MetaX confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing, targeting an IPO by the year-end, amid a surge of fundraising from rivals  —  Firm's year-end listing plan underscores China's chip self-reliance and follows Biren, Iluvatar and Moore Threads in the fundraising rush
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Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Microsoft is testing free cloud streaming of user-owned games for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions, with ads that will play “before sessions begin”  —  The free streaming option is still in testing, and limited to one-hour sessions for ‘select’ games.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Intel reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $16.1B, vs. $14.42B est., its fastest quarterly growth in ~15 years on “unprecedented” demand; INTC jumps 4%+ after hours  —  Intel reported better-than-expected second-quarter results on Thursday, notching its fastest revenue growth rate …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, Canva, and Notion  —  Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT's voice mode, rival Anthropic is making …
Corbin Bolies / Variety:
Patreon lays off 20% of its employees, or 93 people, citing a “painful” restructuring due to “profound” changes in the creator economy over the past six months  —  Patreon, the creator-focused monetization platform, said on Thursday it was laying off 20% of its employees …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI told Hugging Face only this week its models caused the July 11 hack; the models appear to have been active online for days before being stopped  —  They were like high-school students trying to hack into the textbook company to cheat on their final exam.  Only these hackers weren't human.
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Tesla stock closed down 14.52% and Alphabet closed down 6.89% after they signaled increased AI spending, amid worries about the mounting costs of the AI boom  —  Shares of Alphabet and Tesla fell on Thursday after both companies signaled increased AI spending, unnerving investors worried …
Mike Stone / Reuters:
The Pentagon signs an up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle worth up to $7B to consolidate the department's on-premises software licenses into a single contract  —  The Pentagon announced on Thursday a nearly $7 billion, up-to-10-year agreement with Oracle to consolidate the department's …
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
Singapore-based Ropedia, which captures real-world human experience via video and converts it into model-ready multimodal datasets, raised a $22M pre-Series A  —  Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte.  Ltd. today announced it raised $22 million in Pre-Series A funding …
Financial Times:
Flush with AI cash, South Korean groups are making their biggest US investment push in years, with their Q1 US foreign direct investment up 100%+ YoY to $10.2B  —  Companies make biggest US investment push in years to build up tech capabilities and avoid Donald Trump's tariffs
Bloomberg:
Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around $500M in a new funding round at a $3B pre-money valuation  —  Robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks with investors to raise around $500 million in a new funding round, according to people familiar with the efforts.
Josh Boak / Associated Press:
Trump says 200 additional stakeholders, including 55 utilities, joined a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high energy bills caused by AI data centers  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday had governors and electricity companies join a voluntary pledge to shield U.S. consumers …

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New York Times:
Fox News pulling Maria Bartiromo off the air reflects a growing willingness to break from Trump on certain issues, following its $787.5M Dominion settlement

CBS News:
A US federal judge allows the Pentagon to fire three Stars and Stripes journalists, ruling the government likely did not violate their First Amendment rights

El Constitucional:
Netflix and Spain's Atresmedia expand their alliance by allowing on-demand viewing of some of Antena 3's and laSexta's top series after their TV broadcast

More News

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Primate Labs releases Geekbench 7, featuring more demanding datasets for CPUs and GPUs, new video and audio encoding/decoding tests, a multicore test, and more
Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider:
Adam Mosseri says Instagram will now take down “pickup line” and other videos shot on Meta glasses that feature harassment of other people in public places

Earlier Picks

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Commission approves EA's $55B acquisition, announced in September, by investors including Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
IBM agrees to acquire HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors, seeking to integrate HRL's electron spin quantum circuits into its quantum computers
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV
Jack Ewing / New York Times:
Ford says Apple's software will be available in its new EVs, helping determine autonomous driving via Apple Maps, and they are working to improve self-driving
Akanksha Khushi / Reuters:
Crypto exchange BitMEX says it will close on September 23 and tells users to withdraw assets; Trump pardoned its founders in 2025 for not implementing AML rules
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Google adds a selfie video sign-in option for account recovery, using tools like liveness detection to safeguard against deepfake attacks, rolling out globally
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