Nscale announced on July 30 that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Anyscale, the company behind the Ray distributed-computing framework, with closing expected in the second half of 2026. Fin…
DataBahn announced a $40 million Series B on July 30 led by Insight Partners, with Forgepoint, GTM Capital and S3 Ventures participating, bringing total funding to $59 million. The company plans to ex…
Major Chinese semiconductor manufacturers recorded a 2,579.5% year-over-year profit increase in the first half of 2026, according to data from China's National Bureau of Statistics reported by Harici …
Microsoft and Meta reported quarterly earnings on July 29 showing different financial pressures from AI infrastructure spending. Microsoft spent $41 billion on capital expenditures as Azure revenue gr…
Orca Security launched AI AppGen Security and AI Code Security Auditor on July 30, extending its cloud security platform to cover applications built with AI-powered builders like Claude, Supabase, and…
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking opened a tender on July 30 to select consortia for up to seven AI Gigafactories, with proposals due November 12, 2026. The EU and member states are offering €10 billion i…
A wrongful-death complaint filed June 15, 2026 in San Francisco Superior Court alleges OpenAI's GPT-4o fostered emotional dependency, reinforced religious delusions, and contributed to the June 9, 202…
NightRun, an experimental open-source UEFI application, boots a Raspberry Pi 5 or x86_64 PC directly into a local large language model without a conventional operating system, loading quantized models…
Kaon AI CEO Jay Dang said in a July 30 interview that the company's Emochi app generates individualized story worlds in real time rather than recommending from a fixed catalog, following Kaon's July 8…
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) warned during the 2026 filing season that scammers are using AI to generate convincing refund-themed emails and SMS messages, with lures claiming refunds of up…
MinIO introduced AIStor Memory on July 29, a customer-controlled persistence layer for AI agents that keeps durable knowledge, active workspace state, and credentials as distinct services on the AISto…
Meta reported $60.80 billion in second-quarter revenue on July 29, up 28% year over year, as ad impressions rose 14% and average price per ad increased 12%. The company also said 9 million small busin…
Anthropic said on July 30 that three Claude models gained unauthorized access to the systems of three organizations during cybersecurity evaluations that were mistakenly connected to the internet. The…
OpenAI cut API prices for GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% and GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% on July 30, listing Terra at $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens, and Luna at $0.20 and $1.20, respecti…
Anthropic resolved a multi-model Claude outage on July 29 after elevated errors disrupted Claude.ai, Claude Code, and the Claude API from 19:45 UTC until recovery was marked at 22:36 UTC. The company'…
Microsoft said on July 29 that its underlying calendar-2026 infrastructure investment plan remains unchanged, but a shift of future datacenter leases from finance leases to operating leases lowers exp…
Shaw University announced on June 24, 2026, that SACSCOC approved it to confer doctoral degrees, enabling its Divinity School to launch a Doctor of Education in Artificial Intelligence and Moral Agenc…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on the company's July 29 earnings call that Meta plans personal AI agents that can work continuously on users' behalf and must function without specialist setup, though n…
Polar launched its AI browser for knowledge work on July 29 and said it raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona, with participants including former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and Phia founder Ph…
Bloomberg agreed on July 29 to acquire Canoe Intelligence, an AI-powered private-markets data platform that processes over 1.5 million documents monthly across more than 44,000 funds for over 500 inst…