Elon Musk predicted that AI and robotics will make money irrelevant by 2036, drawing online mockery, but Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, warned that this abundance depends on political will …
GlossGenius rebranded as Genius AI on July 21, closing a $44 million Series D led by Lux Capital at a $1.15 billion valuation. The company, which serves over 125,000 in-person service businesses acros…
Verizon CEO Dan Schulman told analysts on July 24 that the company signed a dark fiber agreement with Google valued at more than $1 billion, with revenue starting next year, as AI infrastructure deman…
Meshy, a text-to-3D startup founded in 2023 by MIT-trained researcher Ethan Hu, closed a Series B of nearly $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation on July 21, the largest funding round ever for an A…
Microsoft patched a record 622 security flaws in July, triple the previous monthly record, while China's 360 Digital Security Group has used an AI agent to uncover nearly 1,000 previously unknown bugs…
OpenAI announced it will make Dublin its European Union headquarters, leasing 88,000 sq ft at the Tropical Fruit Warehouse and committing approximately €105 million to Ireland over the next three year…
A trove of seemingly private conversations with Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot, including sensitive information such as cryptocurrency wallet keys and personal details, appeared in public Google search…
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 570 security vulnerabilities, including two zero-days, driven by AI-powered vulnerability discovery using its Codename MDASH multi-model agentic scanning harn…
Deutsche Bank analyst Adrian Cox argues that the competition between open-weight and closed AI models will likely resemble the coexistence of Apple's iOS and Google's Android rather than a winner-take…
Google's rollout of AI Mode as the default search experience, powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, has cut publisher click-through rates by up to 58%, according to an Ahrefs study, with users clicking a tradi…
Eromify and Higgsfield AI serve different creator needs: Eromify focuses on fast AI persona monetization with credit packs starting at $5 and a $99 monthly plan, while Higgsfield, founded by former Sn…
Intel reported $16.1 billion in Q2 2026 revenue, up 25% year-over-year, and non-GAAP EPS of $0.42, beating Wall Street estimates of $14.43 billion and $0.21, but shares fell 7.9% to $92.32 after the c…
Enigma, a physical AI startup founded by Unit 8200 veterans Jonathan Jacobi and Gal Niv, emerged from stealth with a $71 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital to build an intelli…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned on July 21 that Chinese companies using model distillation to learn from American AI systems could face sanctions, including Entity List designations, according…
Nvidia and Safe Superintelligence (SSI) signed a long-term partnership on July 27, 2026, giving SSI access to Nvidia's Vera Rubin systems and an order-of-magnitude compute expansion, while Nvidia gain…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told crypto founders on July 26 that pivoting to AI is "zero sum, scarcity thinking," arguing instead that crypto payment rails are essential for AI agents that need to tr…
A growing number of American techies and companies, including Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian and Coinbase, are adopting Chinese AI models like Moonshot's Kimi K3 and Z.ai's GLM-5.2 because they are cheap…
JPMorgan Chase is eliminating its standalone AI chief role as Teresa Heitsenrether retires at the end of 2026, folding the function into Global Technology under CTO Scot Baldry. The bank, which invest…
Nvidia's $750 billion AI financing web, including a potential $250 billion guarantee for an OpenAI data center project, is drawing scrutiny over circular money flows where the chipmaker invests in AI …
Boson AI founder Alex Smola, a former Amazon distinguished scientist, claims his startup's Higgs RealTime speech-to-speech model is one-tenth the cost of rivals like OpenAI and Meta, aiming to undercu…