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July 19, 2026

2:15 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Kimi developer Moonshot told investors it is preparing for a Hong Kong IPO in as early as six months; its ARR hit $300M in June, up from $200M in April
2:00 AM  •
Alexandra Lindsay / The San Francisco Standard:  Analysis: OpenAI and Anthropic employees are donating to campaigns more heavily and cohesively than Google, Meta, and Airbnb employees did post-IPO
1:20 AM  •
Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal:  A profile of businessman Sebastian Rucci, whose past ventures were subject to legal probes, as he bids to build California's biggest data center, a $10B project
1:05 AM  •
Haley Zimmerman / Financial Times:  Big US pizza delivery chains are struggling as apps such as DoorDash and Uber Eats give independent pizzerias and other restaurants greater market access
12:55 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources: CIA operative Jonny Gannon spied on G42 to probe its China ties and helped the UAE gain expanded access to US AI chips by allaying US suspicions

July 18, 2026

11:40 PM  •
Ann Cao / South China Morning Post:  Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA
11:15 PM  •
9to5Mac:  Analysis finds 60+ “jacket apps” on the App Store disguised as simple games and utilities that become gambling apps when accessed from Brazilian IP addresses
9:35 PM  •
Joshua Cohen / Ars Technica:  A look at AI's potential impact on insurance-coverage decisions like prior authorization as the Trump admin starts to pilot using AI to evaluate Medicare claims
5:35 PM  •
Geraldine McKelvie / The Guardian:  UK's incoming PM Andy Burnham is expected to scrap Keir Starmer's plans for digital ID cards; last year a petition opposing the cards attracted ~3M signatures
5:10 PM  •
Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information:  Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more
3:10 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Prediction market political betting on insider info spreads in DC; sources: WH lawyers raised alarms over anonymous Polymarket bets on the Iran ceasefire timing
1:10 PM  •
Leo Schwartz / The Information:  How the Trump administration shifted from a “light-touch” approach to AI policy to an interventionist stance that led to restrictions on top AI models in the US
10:40 AM  •
Reuters:  Grassroots org HumansFirst says it organized 142 protests across 42 US states on July 18 against what it calls the “unaccountable” buildout of data centers
6:55 AM  •
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:  A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops
2:55 AM  •
AI Security Institute:  Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025
2:30 AM  •
Reuters:  SEC filing: GameStop says it owns 9.8% of eBay, signaling its intent to press ahead with a bid for the company after its unsolicited $56B offer was rejected
2:10 AM  •
FinTech Global:  Feathery, which develops an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including a recently completed Series A
2:00 AM  •
Minxiao Chang / South China Morning Post:  China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024
1:50 AM  •
Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek:  London-based Risk Ledger, which helps organizations manage supply chain cyber risks, raised a £24M Series B led by Axiom Equity, taking total funding to £33.8M
1:45 AM  •
Meir Orbach / CTech:  Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M
1:30 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: China's National AI Industry Investment Fund gained voting rights in DeepSeek by joining its $7.4B round; other investors like Tencent and JD got none
1:00 AM  •
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:  Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona
12:45 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC

July 17, 2026

10:40 PM  •
Claude / @claudeai:  Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits from July 20 and via usage credits for Pro and Team Standard users
9:00 PM  •
Minxiao Chang / South China Morning Post:  China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated “brain-to-robot” platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset
8:10 PM  •
David Shepardson / Reuters:  Memo: the DOJ says federal employees can now download TikTok on government devices, citing TikTok US' transfer of control, lifting a 2022 congressional ban
7:55 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia
6:35 PM  •
Reuters:  Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others
6:25 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: the Trump administration is considering plans for an independent regulator to vet the safety of AI models; the regulator would report to the SEC
6:20 PM  •
Blake Brittain / Reuters:  Filings: a group of major music publishers has agreed to end a copyright infringement dispute with X over the use of their music on the social media platform
5:55 PM  •
Reuters:  The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index sank ~10% for the week, its largest weekly fall in over a year, and is now down ~20% from its late-June all-time high
5:15 PM  •
The Information:  Sources: Valar Atomics, which makes small nuclear reactors intended to power data centers, is in talks to raise $1B at a ~$5B pre-money valuation
4:55 PM  •
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:  Apple raises iPhone prices in Japan by up to 11%, likely due to the Japanese yen's depreciation against the US dollar over the past year
4:40 PM  •
Robert Booth / The Guardian:  Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to “an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem”
3:45 PM  •
The Information:  Sources: OpenRouter has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value it at billions of dollars, a premium to its $1.3B valuation in May
3:10 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources: SpaceX is in talks with the DOD about providing the agency with access to data-center capacity worth billions of dollars for running AI models
2:35 PM  •
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:  Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, citing rising licensing costs
1:15 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Apple and the DOJ are in early discussions about settling a 2024 antitrust lawsuit alleging that Apple violated antitrust laws
12:25 PM  •
New York Times:  Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years
12:20 PM  •
Gavin Baker / @gavinsbaker:  Models like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers
11:05 AM  •
Transformer:  Kimi K3 hype shouldn't alarm the US about “losing the AI race” to China; K3 is a good model but not frontier-level and likely lacks dangerous cyber capabilities
10:35 AM  •
Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg:  ASML plans to give its ~45K employees globally a €20K bonus, issued as a share award that vests in 2030, joining other chip industry companies offering payouts
9:50 AM  •
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:  AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal to use inference-specific chips as collateral
8:55 AM  •
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:  Sources: the EU is set to approve the $55B acquisition of EA under its subsidy rules on July 30; the deal includes Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity
8:25 AM  •
Matt Burgess / Wired:  San Francisco sends legal notices to Apple and Google, demanding they take down 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nude images; Google says it deleted five apps
7:15 AM  •
Michael Acton / Financial Times:  Sources: Apple has sent personal legal warnings to ~40 former employees who now work at OpenAI, directing them to preserve documents and meet with its lawyers
6:55 AM  •
Reuters:  At the World AI Conference, Xi Jinping touts open-source AI, pledges to help the Global South build AI capabilities, and calls unequal AI access an “injustice”
6:00 AM  •
Sanya Mansoor / The Guardian:  The Alphabet Workers Union sends a layoff protections petition with 4,500+ signatures to Sundar Pichai, calling for guaranteed severance, buyouts, and more
5:45 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Z.ai is on track to achieve an annual recurring revenue of $1B, a first for a Chinese AI company, after achieving its full-year sales target in July
5:05 AM  •
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal:  Sources: Dave Brown, the outgoing SVP of AWS Compute, AI, and Platform, will join Meta in the coming weeks, where he will work on Meta's data center build-out
2:25 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Tata plans India's first large-scale chip fab, in Dholera, Gujarat, mostly using 90nm nodes, a far humbler start than the 28nm node it touted earlier
1:30 AM  •
Jordan Novet / CNBC:  In an internal meeting, Satya Nadella criticized Claude Fable 5 for being “editorially controlled”, saying its refusal to do “any random thing” makes no sense
12:40 AM  •
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:  Source: Demis Hassabis plans to hold meetings with US policymakers in Washington next week about his proposed US-based Standards Body for “Frontier-class” AI

July 16, 2026

11:55 PM  •
Blake Brittain / Reuters:  Court doc: a US federal jury says Japanese chipmaker Kioxia owes Viasat $229M for infringing Viasat's patent for flash memory that helps devices use less energy
11:20 PM  •
Aaron Holmes / The Information:  Source: Microsoft plans to release an AI security tool this month that uses models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and itself, as a cost-effective alternative to Mythos
11:00 PM  •
Madison Muller / Bloomberg:  Kalshi launches a biotech pilot, starting with 13 biotech contracts offering wagers on the outcomes of late-stage clinical drug trials and regulatory decisions
10:05 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software startup at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation
9:35 PM  •
George Steer / Financial Times:  US stocks of chip, memory, and storage makers fell sharply on Thursday; SNDK closed down 12.63%, STX 10%, Western Digital 9.15%, Intel 5.84%, and Micron 5.65%
9:25 PM  •
Nikita Maria Jino / Reuters:  Filing: South Korean authorities conducted an on-site search of Chinese chipmaker Montage's offices in connection with a potential competition law violation
9:25 PM  •
Eno Sarris / The Athletic:  Memo: MLB bans the use of league-provided dugout iPads to access GenAI to help shape in-game strategy; sources say up to a third of teams used AI in this way
8:25 PM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: Dassault Systèmes is in talks to acquire drug trial software maker ArisGlobal from Nordic Capital for ~$2B, extending its push into life sciences tools
8:05 PM  •
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:  The EU accepts X's plan to meet DSA transparency obligations and let researchers access data, giving X six months to implement it, after fining X €120M in 2025
7:45 PM  •
Rocket Drew / The Information:  Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September
6:55 PM  •
Reuters:  Source: PayPal's board sees Stripe and PE firm Advent International's $53B takeover bid as undervaluing the company and facing regulatory and financing hurdles
6:20 PM  •
Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable:  A NY school district is piloting Realbotix's humanoid robot teacher to help STEM students; Realbotix rebranded after acquiring sex doll company RealDoll in 2024
5:35 PM  •
Lorelei Smillie / Bloomberg:  US Homeland Security says it seized 30K+ SIM cards in June and July in a nationwide operation that dismantled infrastructure criminals used in telephone fraud
5:00 PM  •
Emma Roth / The Verge:  Netflix says ~300 titles on its app used generative AI in 2026, mostly in post-production, “to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost”
4:25 PM  •
Kashmir Hill / New York Times:  An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive “authors” proliferate
4:16 PM  •
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:  Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $12.56B, vs. $12.59B est., and says it will only publish engagement updates annually from 2027; NFLX drops 10%+
4:12 PM  •
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:  Kimi K3 takes #1 on the Frontend Code Arena benchmark, surpassing Claude Fable 5, and scores 88.3 on Terminal Bench 2.1, trailing only GPT-5.6 Sol's 88.8
3:45 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  DoorDash launches a DoorDash CLI limited beta, which lets users place orders from an AI agent, available via a waitlist to macOS developers in the US and Canada
3:15 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and adds a feature that lets users create a custom digital avatar using a selfie and a voice recording
3:00 PM  •
Kimi:  Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter AI model that it says rivals Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5, and plans to release its full model weights by July 27
2:50 PM  •
Tibo / @thsottiaux:  After reports of GPT-5.6 deleting files, OpenAI says the issue most commonly occurs in full-access mode without sandboxing and it's working to mitigate the risk
2:35 PM  •
CoinDesk:  Crypto.com raised $400M from Citadel Securities in its first institutional funding round, valuing the Singapore-based crypto exchange at $20B
2:15 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro as it tries to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding; GOOG closes down 4.43%
2:10 PM  •
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:  Beehiiv debuts Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, and adds programmatic ads and an AI tool that advises creators how to grow their audience
1:55 PM  •
Karissa Bell / Engadget:  In its first evaluation of LLMs, Meta's Oversight Board says top AI models could be restricting free expression, as it seeks to expand its influence beyond Meta
1:15 PM  •
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:  Google says users in the US can now link to and interact with some apps in AI Mode, starting with Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music
1:05 PM  •
Jay Peters / The Verge:  Roblox unveils Build, which lets users create basic games through text prompts directly within its mobile app, powered by Roblox's models and open-source models
12:45 PM  •
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:  Fora, which connects travel agents with travelers and offers agents AI tools, raised a $60M Series D at a $1B valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures
12:25 PM  •
Josh Woodward / Google:  Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and rolls out an update giving every notebook a secure cloud computer, letting it write and execute code natively
11:45 AM  •
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch:  San Diego-based Self Inspection, which uses AI to assess body damage on a car with as little tech as a smartphone camera, raised $10M led by Sheryl Sandberg
11:35 AM  •
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:  Filing: a Chinese luggage maker says a fund in which it invested deployed ~$420M for an indirect 0.8265% stake in DeepSeek, implying DeepSeek is valued at ~$52B
11:25 AM  •
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune:  Visa debuts the Visa Stablecoin Platform, an internal system to help its network of ~15K financial institutions and 200M+ merchants more easily use stablecoins
11:15 AM  •
CNET:  OnePlus confirms it will no longer operate in North America or Europe but will keep operating in China, while Realme, another Oppo sub-brand, will exit China
11:10 AM  •
Reuters:  China, Russia, Belarus, Serbia, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, and 22 other countries sign an agreement to create the World AI Cooperation Organization in Shanghai
11:00 AM  •
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:  A hacker claims to have accessed Suno's user info and source code, showing how it scraped music; Suno says no sensitive info was compromised in a November hack
10:15 AM  •
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:  Runta, which provides isolated sandboxes and guardrails for AI agents to prevent operational risks, raised a $20M seed led by a16z at a $100M+ valuation
9:45 AM  •
Financial Times:  Chinese AI start-up Moonshot launches model challenging Anthropic's lead
9:40 AM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Sources: Apple is preparing new iPads, including an iPad mini with an OLED screen by October and refreshed entry-level iPads and iPad Airs for 2027
9:30 AM  •
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:  Sable, which is building an AI agent named Aiden that lives on a company's website to run live product demos and more, raised $45M from Sequoia and 8VC
9:25 AM  •
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:  Grubhub parent Wonder raised a $650M+ Series D at a $9B valuation, bringing its total raised to $3B+ since its founding in 2018, and plans to go public in 2027
9:20 AM  •
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:  1Password launches a new Claude integration for macOS that lets Anthropic's AI agent sign in to websites without seeing the user's password or 2FA code
9:15 AM  •
Jordan Novet / CNBC:  Fireworks, which helps developers access AI chips and open-source models, raised $1.5B at a $17.5B valuation and says it has exceeded $1B in annualized revenue
9:10 AM  •
Sara Fischer / Axios:  Trump Media plans to launch the Truth API on August 1, providing real-time data from trending Truth Social accounts to news organizations and trading firms
8:55 AM  •
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:  Bunkerhill Health, which uses AI agents for hospital tasks like managing wait times, raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla, bringing its total funding to $55M
8:50 AM  •
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg:  Sources detail how xAI has been slowed down by internal chaos as Musk pushed for Grok to match Claude, amid signs it is turning a corner under Michael Nicolls
8:35 AM  •
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu:  London-based Applied Computing, which is developing AI models for energy operations, raised $20M led by KBR, with participation from Databricks Ventures
8:30 AM  •
Éanna Kelly / Sifted:  Munich-based Microagi, which collects factory and household data to train humanoid robots, raised $55M led by Hummingbird in Germany's largest ever seed round
8:25 AM  •
Sarah Young / Reuters:  Ocado's stock drops 13%+, hitting a 13-year low, after it failed to show tangible progress in talks to secure new US partners for its warehouse automation tech
8:20 AM  •
Robert Hart / The Verge:  The EU issues two decisions under the DMA that order Google to provide rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and some Search data
8:10 AM  •
Joe Tidy / BBC:  The UK sentences two Scattered Spider members, who pled guilty to an August 2024 Transport for London cyberattack, to five and a half years in prison
7:55 AM  •
Jenny Lee / CNBC:  Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 Edge, a world model for robots and AI agents to perceive and navigate physical environments in real time, after Cosmos 3's debut in May
7:40 AM  •
Chris Metinko / Axios:  Beacon Security, which offers an agentic security platform, raised a $13M seed and says it has “tens” of large enterprise customers including Cerebras
7:35 AM  •
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:  Meta will now notify parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and will contact emergency services if a user might be at risk of suicide
7:25 AM  •
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:  Vital Signals launches the $399 Signal Ring, which it says provides systolic and diastolic blood pressure readings as accurately as a traditional arm cuff
7:20 AM  •
Brendan Bordelon / Politico:  Filings: Dario Amodei gave $1M in May to Public First, a super PAC advocating for AI safety regulations, seemingly his first seven-figure political donation
7:15 AM  •
Bernard Goyder / Bloomberg:  Alpaca, which offers brokerage and financial infrastructure, raised $135M in equity and $300M in debt, following a $150M Series D in January
7:10 AM  •
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:  Ofcom report: daily VPN users in the UK jumped to 2.2M, up from 1.2M before the introduction of laws enforcing age limits on pornography sites in July 2025
7:05 AM  •
Axios:  Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei published memos in recent weeks that agree on an AI regulatory framework but disagree on the US government's role
6:45 AM  •
Madison Mills / Axios:  Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs launch a bioresilience program to leverage AI models for pathogen surveillance, vaccine design, and outbreak responses
6:20 AM  •
Mizy Clifton / Politico:  Ofcom opens an investigation into TikTok over Online Safety Act compliance, citing doubts about the effectiveness of age inference in determining users' ages
5:45 AM  •
Bloomberg:  A US official says TSMC plans to spend an additional $100B to build four US chip plants, bringing its total pledge to $265B as part of a broader US-Taiwan deal
5:20 AM  •
Debby Wu / Bloomberg:  TSMC raises its 2026 capex projection from $52B-$56B to $60B-$64B and its revenue growth projection in USD from 30%+ to 40%+ YoY, citing “the AI megatrend”
5:00 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Uber agrees to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal that values the German food delivery company at ~$14.8B, offering €41.50 per share and buying Prosus' 16.8% stake
2:30 AM  •
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:  A US federal judge rules the State Department engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by denying visas to researchers studying misinfo and disinfo
2:20 AM  •
Blake Brittain / Reuters:  xAI sues a South Carolina man for allegedly using Grok to generate CSAM, in one of the first cases of its kind brought by an AI company against one of its users
2:10 AM  •
Jenny Lee / CNBC:  TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$39.45B, net income up 77.4% YoY to ~$21.9B, both above est., and says chips 7nm or smaller were 77% of its wafer revenue
1:30 AM  •
Reuters:  Data center company Csquare raises $1.05B in its US IPO, selling 50M shares at $21 each, below its marketed range of $23 to $27, valuing the company at ~$3.25B
12:45 AM  •
Reuters:  Hyundai says it will make Boston Dynamics a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring SoftBank's ~10% stake; Hyundai acquired an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics in 2021
12:15 AM  •
Michael Kan / PCMag:  Filing: AST SpaceMobile delays the launch of its satellite-to-phone service to 2027 after the Blue Origin mishap and plans to raise $1B in convertible notes

July 15, 2026

11:10 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  AI execs are bolstering personal security amid rising AI opposition; Liferaft: digital threats against execs and data centers grew 7x from late February to May
10:20 PM  •
Fred Lambert / Electrek:  Filing: Elon Musk quietly bought Jacksonville, Florida-based APR Energy, which runs mobile gas and diesel turbines like those in Colossus 2, for an implied ~$1B
9:05 PM  •
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:  SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license, after the tool uploaded user repositories to SpaceXAI's Google Cloud bucket, causing a backlash
7:25 PM  •
Marco Chiappetta / Forbes:  Cadence unveils AuraStack AI Super Agent, an AI platform for PCB and advanced chip packaging design, with Nvidia, TSMC, and Schneider Electric among early users
6:40 PM  •
The Information:  Sources: Microsoft security chief Hayete Gallot, who took over in February, has prioritized AI tools, cut several hundred roles, replaced senior execs, and more
5:10 PM  •
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:  Venture funding of fintech startups grew 22.7% YoY in H1 2026 to $28.6B globally, but deal count fell 25.7% and funding fell 17.3% vs. H2 2025's $34.6B funding
4:45 PM  •
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:  Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says Jordan Fish, aka “Cobie”, will now lead the Base app team, after acknowledging some of Base's bets on social features fell short
4:30 PM  •
Samantha Subin / CNBC:  SpaceX's stock fell for a fourth-straight session on Wednesday, briefly dropping below its $135 IPO price for the first time, before closing down 1% at $135.27
4:25 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Apple publishes a policy for its upcoming Maps ads: home services ads are banned, medical services ads will be “evaluated on a case-by-case basis”, and more
3:35 PM  •
OpenAI:  OpenAI details GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery so it can fix bugs before wider deployment
3:25 PM  •
Liam Denning / Bloomberg:  Uber and Waymo are engaged in a DC lobbying battle over AV legislation, with Uber supporting a hybrid human-robotaxi model and Waymo pushing for pure robotaxis
3:05 PM  •
Greg Bensinger / Reuters:  Dave Brown, AWS SVP of Compute, AI, and Platform, is leaving the company after 19 years for a new job; he is a member of the S-team that advises CEO Andy Jassy
2:35 PM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Apple raises its AppleCare+ prices for Macs and iPads by $0.50 per month and $5 per year; the increases are exclusively for new sign-ups
2:17 PM  •
Thinking Machines Lab:  Thinking Machines Lab debuts Inkling, an open-weight MoE model with 975B total and 41B active parameters, trained to be broad rather than optimized for one area
1:55 PM  •
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:  Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's $1.5B AI implementation company, announced in May, launches with the name “Ode with Anthropic” and 100 engineers
1:15 PM  •
Ryan Lawler / Axios:  Lumin Digital, which provides cloud-based digital banking software to banks and credit unions, raised more than $115M at a $1.6B post-money valuation
12:45 PM  •
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:  OpenAI employees donated a combined $215K+ to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC seeking stricter AI rules and opposing Greg Brockman-backed Leading the Future
12:10 PM  •
Megan Morrone / Axios:  OpenAI launches Codex Micro, a $230 desktop keypad built in collaboration with keyboard maker Work Louder, with backlit keys, a rotary knob, and a tiny joystick
12:01 PM  •
Qianer Liu / The Information:  Sources: ASML has discussed raising prices for its EUV systems with TSMC and plans to charge 10% more for its DUV systems; TSMC is resisting ASML's price plans
11:30 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Source: OnePlus will begin to cease operations in the US and Europe as early as this week and Realme will exit China as part of a restructuring by parent Oppo
11:20 AM  •
Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal:  Hyundai's South Korea auto workers have gone on a partial strike over wages, AI, and the prospect of it deploying Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot in factories
10:55 AM  •
The Information:  Sources: Apple is looking to acquire chip companies to boost its AI server efforts, as it struggles with AI server chip upgrades and M2 Ultra server performance
10:45 AM  •
Lucinda Shen / Axios:  Spectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised a $100M Series D from AMD, LG, others at a $1B+ valuation, up from $750M in 2024
10:35 AM  •
Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal:  How TikTok Shop sellers are using AI creators and AI twins to boost affiliate sales; eMarketer: US sales on TikTok Shop will grow 48% YoY to $23.41B in 2026
10:25 AM  •
Meytal Vaizberg / Globes:  Israel-based Hemispheric, whose AI model can analyze brain activity measured non-invasively and turn it into quantitative metrics for diagnoses, raised $52M
9:55 AM  •
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu:  Amsterdam-based Monumental, which develops autonomous robotics and software for the construction industry, raised a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures
9:40 AM  •
Camila Grigera Naón / Fortune:  Miami-based Cyclops, which sells an infrastructure platform that bundles crypto and stablecoin services to payments companies, raised a $20M Series A
9:20 AM  •
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:  Rime, which helps companies field calls using AI voice models trained on conversational data it records in a studio, raised a $24M Series A led by M13
9:15 AM  •
Politico:  How Anthropic is pursuing a state-by-state push for ever-tougher AI safety laws, in contrast with OpenAI's “reverse federalism” strategy for common state rules
9:01 AM  •
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:  Sources: the EU is set to fine Google hundreds of millions of euros over alleged self-preferencing of its services in Search and restrictions on app developers
8:40 AM  •
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:  American Growth Insurance, which aims to acquire struggling independent insurance firms and transform them using AI, raised almost $70M
8:30 AM  •
Jeremy B. White / Politico:  Gavin Newsom is tempering his pro-tech instincts with economic populism ahead of a likely presidential bid, proposing giving Americans equity in AI companies
8:20 AM  •
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:  Indian AI coding startup Emergent raised a $130M Series C at a $1.5B post-money valuation, up from $300M in January, bringing its total funding raised to $230M
8:10 AM  •
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:  Hinge adds Friend's Take, a feature that lets daters enlist up to 10 close contacts to share written feedback, photos, voice notes, or videos on their profiles
8:00 AM  •
Anna Heim / TechCrunch:  Israel-based Oak, which is building an AI-native identity access management system, comes out of stealth with a $60M seed
7:45 AM  •
Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal:  China enacts rules forbidding companionship chatbots from encouraging emotional reliance, banning virtual relationships with minors, and more
7:15 AM  •
Meir Orbach / CTech:  Neo Security, a cybersecurity startup founded by ex-SentinelOne execs and currently in stealth, raised $50M+, after a $25M seed in 2025 led by a16z and Merlin
6:45 AM  •
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:  Samsung unveils a new Flex Titanium foldable display that is slimmer, more durable, and less prone to creasing, debuting in its upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8 series
6:40 AM  •
Politico:  AI advocates fear New York's moratorium on new data centers could embolden Democrats to enact more state restrictions and seize on the issue in the midterms
6:15 AM  •
Bloomberg:  India pledges $13.3B to boost domestic chipmaking, building on a $10B incentive program from 2021 that attracted investments from companies like Micron and Tata
6:05 AM  •
CNBC:  IBM's stock closed down 25.21% on Tuesday, sinking more than its previous worst day of October 19, 1987, after reporting preliminary Q2 results below estimates
5:55 AM  •
Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg:  Nokia plans to sell its AI-driven RAN platform, developed with Nvidia, to mobile operators by 2027, aiming for a 100% increase in spectrum efficiency by 2028
5:40 AM  •
Reuters:  China says Apple Intelligence has been registered for use on iPhones in the country; the service will integrate Alibaba's Qwen and may add Baidu's AI features
4:45 AM  •
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:  MA-based Walden Robotics, a Toyota robotics spin-off that has started selling humanoid robots, emerges from stealth with a ~$300M seed at a $1.1B valuation
3:35 AM  •
Max A. Cherney / Reuters:  ASML says Intel has decided to use ASML's next-gen High NA EUV machines to make some of its flagship Panther Lake laptop chips; a High NA machine costs ~$400M
3:30 AM  •
April Roach / CNBC:  ASML reports Q2 net sales of €9.3B, above €8.8B est., a €2.9B net profit, above €2.6B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €36B-€40B to €43B-€45B
2:30 AM  •
James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review:  A profile of PsiQuantum, which has raised $1B in 2025, is building a quantum computer with GlobalFoundries-made photonic chips, and is highly regarded by DARPA
2:15 AM  •
Bloomberg:  As China's rules for humanlike AI interaction take effect, many users are bemoaning the loss of the virtual companions they had created on Chinese AI platforms
2:00 AM  •
The Information:  Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue recently reached $400M to $500M as it seeks to raise ~$7.4B at a ~$74B valuation, up from ~$50B after raising ~$7B in May
1:55 AM  •
Sean Hollister / The Verge:  Court filing: Google says it is ready to add third-party app stores within Google Play in the US on July 22, as Google and Epic withdraw their settlement motion
12:55 AM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: Oracle leads the race to sell “air-gapped” cloud services to Japan that the US says are key to secure intelligence sharing between Tokyo and its allies
12:50 AM  •
Wall Street Journal:  The UAE gained expanded US AI chip access after aiding the US in the Iran war, letting G42 buy freely for at least nine months; G42 plans to become a US company
12:40 AM  •
Bernhard Warner / New York Times:  Daniel Ek's Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans, raised $700M co-led by Lightspeed and O.G. Venture Partners, sources say at a ~$7B valuation
12:05 AM  •
Ryan Lawler / Axios:  NYC-based Hadrius, which provides AI-native compliance tools for financial services, raised a $22M Series A led by CRV with participation from Y Combinator

July 14, 2026

11:50 PM  •
Milana Vinn / Reuters:  Sources: Stripe and PE firm Advent have jointly offered $60.50/share to acquire PayPal, a 28% premium to Tuesday's close, valuing it at $53B+; PYPL jumps 17.2%
11:20 PM  •
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:  Sources: OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving to launch a startup developing AI models for drug discovery, and is in talks to raise ~$200M at a $2B valuation
11:05 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  A group of 26 current and former employees sues Meta for allegedly using AI in layoffs in May to unfairly target workers with disabilities or on protected leave
10:40 PM  •
Politico:  Sources: multiple GOP governors and large utilities are expected to join Trump's pledge for data center developers to cover their energy use and infrastructure
9:45 PM  •
Ivan Penn / New York Times:  Monitoring Analytics: PJM's recent electricity auction is expected to add $6.3B to customers' bills in 13 states and DC through 2029 due to data center demands
9:10 PM  •
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:  InstaLILY, which develops AI agents to automate sales, operations, and service workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Energize Capital
8:10 PM  •
Max A. Cherney / Reuters:  Source: CoreWeave is exploring using financial derivatives as a potential hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices, but hasn't hedged yet
7:35 PM  •
Ej Dickson / Wired:  Study: social networks drove 5.7M+ visits to nudify sites between December 2025 and March 2026, with YouTube accounting for 1.82M visits and X for 1.3M visits
6:40 PM  •
David Ingram / NBC News:  OpenAI says Apple's claim that OpenAI “never responded” to its concerns is false; emails: OpenAI did respond, but an Apple lawyer mixed up two OpenAI employees
6:30 PM  •
Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop:  The Trump administration details its “Gold Eagle” federal clearinghouse for sharing AI cyber threat information between the government and the private sector
6:20 PM  •
Samantha Subin / CNBC:  Cybersecurity stocks rallied on Tuesday after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna flagged cyber fears as a top priority for customers; CrowdStrike jumped 12%, Okta rose 11%
6:05 PM  •
Muvija M / Reuters:  The UK government proposes a default overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds and disabling features like autoplay and infinite scroll by default
4:55 PM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Sources: OpenAI's first device will be a moveable, screen-free smart speaker with a camera and sensors, meant to serve as an AI companion that taps into ChatGPT
4:50 PM  •
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg:  Sources: DeepSeek has started planning for an IPO in China and may file as soon as this year, allowing it to debut in 2027
4:35 PM  •
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:  Anthropic faces ridicule and criticism for an ad titled “There's hope in hard questions” that unsettled viewers with weird graveyard imagery and doomer-ist tone
4:25 PM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  OpenAI says it is “not aware of any evidence” that Apple's lawsuit alleging trade-secret theft has merit, adding that it believes in fair competition
4:15 PM  •
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:  Adapter, which offers an infrastructure layer to help users leverage and control data for use by AI agents and apps, emerges from stealth with $17.8M in funding
4:00 PM  •
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:  Overtone, a “voice- and audio-forward” dating service founded by Hinge creator Justin McLeod that uses AI to make “highly curated introductions”, raised $18M
3:45 PM  •
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters:  A US judge dismisses a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop the dissemination of CSAM through iCloud, saying Section 230 shields the company
3:30 PM  •
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:  PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27B that it says runs natively on Apple devices via MLX; its CEO says Apple is evaluating the tech
2:25 PM  •
Washington Post:  A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product
1:45 PM  •
Samantha Subin / CNBC:  Austin-based TerraFirma, a construction tech startup founded by two former SpaceX engineers to build remote-controlled construction equipment, raised $115M
1:00 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Uber is in advanced talks to acquire Delivery Hero; sources: Uber is discussing a bid of ~€40/share, which would value the German food-delivery company at €12B+
12:20 PM  •
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:  Google Images launches a Pinterest-like redesign with a browsable, dynamic gallery of images, and adds a way for users to create AI images in Search
12:15 PM  •
Politico:  The European Commission proposes exempting wearable tech from rules requiring removable batteries, clearing a hurdle for Meta's smart glasses, after US pressure
12:10 PM  •
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:  Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features
12:05 PM  •
Reuters:  Sources: data center operator Switch has hired investment banks for a US IPO that could raise up to $10B and value it at $80B, set for as soon as Q4
12:00 PM  •
A.J. Katz / The Wrap:  Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow sue Google for allegedly using millions of copyrighted books and articles to build AI models
11:55 AM  •
Bloomberg:  A Trump administration official says a “trivial” number of Nvidia's H200 chips were shipped to China after winning a US license, without offering specifics
11:45 AM  •
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:  Velocity, a stablecoin treasury and settlement platform, raised a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, bringing its total funding to around $50M
11:20 AM  •
Steve Dent / Engadget:  Spotify launches Talk to Spotify, letting users create playlists and more via voice, rolling out in beta to Premium users age 18+ in the US, Ireland, and Sweden
11:10 AM  •
Connor Jones / The Register:  Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted
10:40 AM  •
David Morris / Bloomberg:  Filing: Chinese chipmaker CXMT is seeking to raise ~$9.8B in an IPO on Shanghai's chip-heavy STAR Board, pricing 6.69B shares at ~$1.28 each
10:30 AM  •
Aditya Soni / Reuters:  AI startup Reflection says it has signed a $1B+ deal to secure computing capacity from Nebius, including access to Nvidia chips, following a deal with SpaceX
10:25 AM  •
Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg:  Kalshi launches a forward curve tool for AI compute, using event contracts to track the future rental costs of GPUs, storage, and memory
10:20 AM  •
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:  Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M
9:35 AM  •
Aditya Soni / Reuters:  Flex, which offers AI-based payment tools, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $70M Series B1 led by Halo Fund, a source says at a $1.2B valuation
9:26 AM  •
Reuters:  Analysis: xAI has installed far more gas turbines without US permits at Colossus 2 than it has publicly acknowledged, impacting Black neighborhoods the hardest
9:20 AM  •
Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal:  Discount airline Frontier partners with SpaceX to offer Wi-Fi for the first time from early 2027, as it targets customers willing to pay more for premium travel
9:11 AM  •
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:  Custom AI chip design startup TYLsemi raised $43M in early-stage funding led by Matter Venture Partners to build modular chips thanks to packaging tech advances
8:11 AM  •
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:  AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it pitches its models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceutical companies
7:56 AM  •
Kirsti Knolle / Reuters:  The European Commission approves €659M in German state aid to support four first-of-a-kind chip facilities in Germany, saying they will strengthen EU autonomy
7:30 AM  •
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:  IBM reports preliminary Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $17.2B, below $17.9B est., as CEO Arvind Krishna says customers are shifting spending to chips; IBM falls 25%
7:05 AM  •
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:  New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new environmental permits for data centers over 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so

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