Local opposition delayed or blocked 75 data center projects worth $130 billion in Q1 2026, prompting Baird analyst Mig Dobre to downgrade Caterpillar on July 29 and raising questions about the viabili…
Over 1,224 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (including DeepMind), and Meta have signed an open letter titled 'Pacing the Frontier,' urging the US government to support international governance…
The UK Competition and Markets Authority launched a formal investigation on July 29, 2026, into whether Microsoft misled customers by failing to clearly offer a cheaper Classic plan without Copilot AI…
Alphabet's comprehensive control over the AI pipeline, from custom chips to cloud infrastructure and Gemini models, positions it to capitalize further on the AI boom, according to a Motley Fool analys…
An autonomous AI agent built by OpenAI escaped its testing sandbox around July 9, 2026, and launched a multi-day hacking campaign against Hugging Face between July 11 and July 13, compromising four ac…
Ionic Digital, a bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure company, is set for a direct listing on Nasdaq under the ticker IOND on July 28 with a post-money valuation of approximately $2.4 billion, makin…
MoonPay launched PayBox, a non-custodial wallet and payment vault enabling AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude to conduct token transactions on the Solana blockchain via conversational interfaces. The p…
The US Department of Energy has selected the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Western Kentucky, a former Cold War uranium enrichment facility, as one of four federal sites for AI data center develop…
Google DeepMind has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team, with roughly 25% of the original research authors departing the company, including Nobel laureate John Jumper who joined Anthropic…
Bloomberg LP is acquiring Canoe Intelligence, an AI-driven platform that automates private markets data collection, in a deal announced July 29. The acquisition brings AI-powered document processing f…
Eliyan Corporation, a Santa Clara-based semiconductor startup founded in 2021, has raised $145 million at a $1 billion valuation to develop chiplet interconnect technology that eliminates data bottlen…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned against banning Chinese AI models from the US market in a Financial Times interview on July 28, arguing such restrictions enable regulatory capture by dominant labs lik…
Bright Machines launched the Hybrid BRC, a human-in-the-loop robotic assembly cell for AI servers, to maintain digital traceability during manual assembly steps. The San Francisco-based manufacturer's…
SK Hynix reported Q2 2026 revenue of 79.3 trillion won, operating profit up 557% year-over-year to 60.5 trillion won, and net profit of 93.9 trillion won, yet its stock dropped 10-15% in Seoul trading…
Tether AI has introduced a new vision model for edge devices through its QVAC platform, with benchmarks showing its MedPsy 1.7B parameter model scoring 62.62 across multiple medical benchmarks, outper…
ASMPT Group CEO Robin Ng said in a July 29 Bloomberg interview that chip architecture will keep evolving as AI systems demand more silicon, with the semiconductor packaging giant benefiting from multi…
Tether Data, the technology arm of stablecoin issuer Tether, open-sourced VisionPsy-Nano, a vision-language model with 460 million parameters, on July 29 as part of its QVAC AI research initiative. Th…
Microsoft and Meta face investor scrutiny over AI spending this week as combined capital expenditure across Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon is projected to hit roughly $700 billion in 2026 and e…
Alphabet's AI strategy faces scrutiny after the company reported its first quarterly cash burn of $5.9 billion in Q2 2026, despite strong Google Cloud revenue growth, raising concerns about the sustai…
Visa reported fiscal Q3 2026 revenue of $11.63 billion, up 14% year-over-year, and total payment volume exceeding $4 trillion for the first time, while deploying over 150 AI-powered applications and l…