Amazon engineers reported during a July 28 internal meeting that a product listing AI project exceeded its budget by 860%, with the overspend undetected for five months, and an unshipped Anthropic Cla…
The European Union plans to invest €10 billion in seven AI gigafactories, each housing over 100,000 advanced AI processors, as part of a broader €20 billion allocation from the InvestAI Facility annou…
Lightning Labs launched l402.tech on July 29, a dedicated website for the L402 protocol that enables AI agents to pay for services via Bitcoin's Lightning Network without human intervention. The proto…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP liquidated its entire public equities portfolio in a margin-fueled fire sale, offloading all holdings to a single buyer on or around July 30. The AI-fo…
Microsoft reported fiscal Q4 2026 results on July 29 showing Azure and cloud services revenue grew 43% year-over-year, the fastest quarterly pace since early 2022, pushing Microsoft Cloud past the $10…
Gold demand rose 4% in Q1 2026, driven by AI infrastructure demand for high-conductivity metals, according to the World Gold Council. Electronics gold demand hit 69.3 tonnes, a 3% year-over-year incre…
Almost half of companies citing the EU AI Act in governance disclosures are headquartered outside the European Union, according to a Thomson Reuters Foundation analysis of 2,973 companies using more t…
Microsoft's stock surged after reporting $90 billion in revenue for fiscal Q4 2026, an 18% year-over-year increase, driven by a 43% rise in Azure cloud revenue that beat analysts' expectations. The co…
VanEck's Onchain Economy ETF (NODE) increased positions after market pullbacks in April and May 2026 without triggering margin calls because the fund does not use leverage. The actively managed ETF, l…
CoinGecko launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that plugs into Anthropic's Claude AI assistant, enabling users to query live crypto data—including prices, market caps, trading volumes, trend…
Morgan Stanley estimates $570 billion in global AI-related debt issuance for 2026, with $236 billion already priced by May at a pace four times faster than last year, pressuring bond investors as tech…
Oracle and Google Cloud have partnered to bring Google's Gemini 2.5 AI models, including Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, and Flash-Lite, to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), announced on August 14, 2025. The …
Nscale, a UK-based AI cloud platform, announced on July 30 that it will acquire Anyscale, the creator of the Ray framework, for approximately $1.65 billion. The deal, expected to close in the second h…
TSMC is developing a new chip packaging technology called CoPoS (Chip-on-Panel-on-Substrate) that replaces traditional circular 300mm wafers with rectangular 310×310 mm panels to increase usable surfa…
Cisco released the open-source Model Provenance Kit on April 30, a tool that generates unique fingerprints for AI models to automate tracking of origins and inherited vulnerabilities across supply cha…
ASE Technology Holding, the world's largest outsourced semiconductor assembly and test company, added $2 billion to its 2026 capital expenditure plan, bringing the total to roughly $10.5 billion, as d…
Dili, an AI-driven compliance automation platform founded by three former Coinbase employees, raised $22 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures to automate prevailing wage and apprenticesh…
Blockchain infrastructure developer AEREDIUM Holdings has received a US patent for a multi-model artificial intelligence architecture that autonomously audits reserves backing stablecoins and other re…
Oracle and Google Cloud deepened their partnership on April 22, 2026, at Google Cloud Next 2026, introducing the Oracle AI Database Agent for Gemini Enterprise that lets users query Oracle databases i…
Onyx Security, a two-year-old startup with offices in Tel Aviv and New York, raised $113 million in a Series B round led by Bessemer Venture Partners on July 29, reaching a $640 million valuation. The…