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Equinix Inc. plans to raise at least $3 billion through a US investment-grade bond sale to fund AI infrastructure expansion, including property acquisitions and development projects. The company, whic…

A Morgan Stanley-led consortium of banks is in advanced talks to lend $15 billion for a data center and power project in Hubbard, Texas, that Anthropic is expected to lease, according to The Wall Stre…

Google has added the Nano Banana AI image generator to Google Earth, allowing users to visualize areas in various styles or eras, such as rendering Pompeii ruins as they looked in 78 A.D. The feature …

Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, has sold most of its AI-related holdings after losses, including its stake in Anthropic, signaling a shift from his previous aggressive AI…

Google unveiled Android Halo and Gemini Spark at Google I/O 2026, introducing an always-on AI agent that lives in a persistent zone at the top of the phone screen, aiming to replace the clunky app-bas…

MiniMax launched H3, its newest multimodal video generation model, with open weights and competitive pricing, aiming to challenge closed-source rivals like ByteDance's Seedance 2.5. According to bench…

Crusoe Energy has filed permits with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for two additional data center buildings at its Goodnight Campus in Armstrong County, Texas, each costing an estim…

Microsoft Corp. kept its 2026 capital spending plan unchanged, effectively reducing it from $190 billion to $175 billion due to an accounting tweak, and its stock surged 15% on Thursday, adding the mo…

ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at its Volcano Engine FORCE conference in Beijing on June 23, supporting 30-second single-segment generation and up to 50 multimodal reference inputs, while MiniMax's H…

Google is expanding Gemini Spark, its AI agent, to Google AI Pro subscribers in over 160 additional countries and adding a new Chrome integration that lets Spark use logged-in accounts and saved passw…

LinkedIn has added a “seems like AI slop” button to posts, allowing users to flag content they believe is AI-generated, as part of a broader effort to reduce low-quality AI content. Chief Product Offi…

Google Search traffic to publishers fell 34% over the past year, according to Chartbeat data shared with Axios, as AI-generated answers replace traditional links. Small publishers lost 60% of search r…

Lloyds Banking Group unveiled a plan called Accelerate 2030 to cut £2bn in costs by 2030 using artificial intelligence, as half-year pre-tax profit rose 23%. The bank aims to lower its cost-to-income …

Google turned on Nano Banana 2, its Gemini image model, inside Google Earth on the web on 30 July, allowing users to type a sentence and drop fake buildings, disasters, or war damage onto real satelli…

Google fixed more Chrome security bugs in June 2026 than in the previous two years combined, using AI-powered vulnerability discovery agents built with Gemini and other models. The Chrome Security tea…

Google's Gemini Spark now integrates with Chrome, enabling it to use signed-in accounts and saved credentials to automate web tasks with user permission, while sensitive actions require approval and p…

ZenResume, a free, local-first ATS resume builder developed by a solo developer, launched with an AI import feature powered by Google's Gemini AI that parses and pre-fills resume fields from PDFs or t…

A developer argues that production AI systems should be built around capabilities rather than specific models, citing the rapid turnover of leading models. The developer recommends versioning prompts,…

AI News Digest for July 31 covers 30 stories, including OpenAI's 80% price cut for GPT-5.6 Luna, Meta's AI spending reducing free cash flow by 91%, and Nvidia's $750B AI investment. The digest also re…

A Pentagon photo showing a laptop prompt to 'CREATE A WAR' sparked online panic before officials clarified it referred to a Weekly Action Report (WAR) tool. The Department of Defense Chief Digital and…