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July 12, 2026

2:30 PM  •
The Economic Times:  Anthropic says it is extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19
11:20 AM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Sources: Apple is already taping out M7 with major NPU upgrades, and plans M7 Ultra with 1.5TB RAM, and M8, for 2028; new Pencils are coming with a new iPad Pro
7:00 AM  •
Sam Learner / Financial Times:  Users of AI coding tools are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement
2:00 AM  •
Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal:  A look at the growing anti-AI movement in the Bay Area, as the disappearance of Sam Kirchner, co-founder of a hard-line activist group, has the movement on edge
1:40 AM  •
Financial Times:  AirDNA: during the FIFA World Cup group stage, platforms such as Airbnb saw 52K+ new listings in US host cities, while hotel bookings fell short of expectations
12:55 AM  •
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:  NYC-based Vendelux, a live B2B event information platform for CMOs and marketing and sales teams, raised a $50M Series B led by Tribeca Venture Partners
12:45 AM  •
Laura Dubois / Financial Times:  EU Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath says the EC is set to propose new digital rules by year-end aimed at protecting consumers from online spending traps

July 11, 2026

9:15 PM  •
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:  A look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the company, which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Evernote, received 800,000 job applications last year and made only 286 hires
6:45 PM  •
Benedict Evans:  Current AI market dynamics point to frontier models becoming commodity infrastructure as the token crunch eases, with value shifting to products built on top
4:15 PM  •
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:  Psychologist Peter Gray argues that school stress, not smartphone use, is the main driver of the teen mental health crisis, challenging Jonathan Haidt's thesis
2:15 PM  •
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:  Apple's lawsuit could sidetrack OpenAI's hardware aspirations for years, or possibly forever, as the startup gets into yet another controversy and messy divorce
12:45 PM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Apple's OpenAI lawsuit follows months of simmering tensions and highlights OpenAI's hardware chief Tang Tan's strained relationship with former boss John Ternus
11:45 AM  •
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:  Filing: Google urged the European Commission not to target DNS resolvers, VPNs, or IPs to fight piracy, calling the measures ineffective and easily circumvented
9:45 AM  •
Guillermo Gallacher / Indeed Hiring Lab:  US software development job postings on Indeed have grown by ~15% since the launch of Claude Code in February 2025, while overall job postings fell by 7%
5:45 AM  •
New York Times:  How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas
2:30 AM  •
Bloomberg:  SK Hynix's historic US stock market listing is a bet that the AI boom is breaking the memory chip industry's decades-long boom-and-bust cycle
1:50 AM  •
Max Spero / Pangram Labs:  An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41%
1:35 AM  •
Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:  Sources detail the Trump admin's heavy-handed intervention to aid Intel, including pushing it to expand local capacity and pressuring Apple to use Intel's fabs
1:15 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: activist investor Elliott has built a large stake in car insurance software maker CCC, which is exploring a potential sale and has a ~$3.5B market cap

July 10, 2026

9:45 PM  •
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:  OpenAI's head of safety, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving as OpenAI integrates its research and safety teams; Mia Glaese will become VP of research and safety
8:25 PM  •
Thinking Machines Lab:  Thinking Machines says its mission is to build AI that people and organizations can shape and make their own, and that “extends human will and judgment”
7:45 PM  •
Reuters:  SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung says the memory industry is heading for its worst-ever supply shortage in 2027 and demand will outstrip supply beyond 2030
7:20 PM  •
Corbin Bolies / Variety:  Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism
7:10 PM  •
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:  In response to Apple's trade secret theft lawsuit, OpenAI says “we have no interest in other companies' trade secrets”
7:00 PM  •
Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive:  CISA says weak security controls around the use of public GitHub repos allowed a contractor to accidentally leak private cloud access keys and other credentials
6:10 PM  •
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:  Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber
5:50 PM  •
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:  A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation
5:21 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Apple says OpenAI leadership “normalized” misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is “rotten to its core by its illegal reliance” on stolen trade secrets
5:00 PM  •
Aaron Tilley / The Information:  In its lawsuit, Apple chronicles in vivid detail how its former employees that went to work for OpenAI allegedly violated their confidentiality agreements
4:50 PM  •
Megan Morrone / Axios:  Apple alleges that a former Apple engineer kept a work-issued Apple laptop and exploited a bug to access Apple's cloud file storage while employed by OpenAI
4:45 PM  •
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:  Apple claims OpenAI recruited 400+ ex-Apple employees, including an iPhone engineer who allegedly downloaded confidential hardware files before joining OpenAI
4:40 PM  •
CNBC:  Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets
4:36 PM  •
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:  Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole “Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI”, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns
4:00 PM  •
CNBC:  Source: Greg Brockman will continue to oversee OpenAI's products as the company doesn't plan to hire anyone to replace Fidji Simo after she stepped down
3:40 PM  •
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:  The Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license
3:10 PM  •
Bloomberg:  China drops a numerical target for urban job creation in its five-year plan, the first such omission since the 1990s, amid volatility fueled by AI displacement
2:40 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022
1:50 PM  •
Ina Fried / Axios:  Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which let users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts
12:35 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Analysis: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, the top spenders on new US data centers, collectively added ~$350B in debt over the past five years
11:50 AM  •
Kif Leswing / CNBC:  SK Hynix closed up 12.76% at $168.01 in its first day of trading on Nasdaq, after raising $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company
10:55 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Phia, a shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates that has raised $43.5M, appears to be using fake clicks or “cookie stuffing” to claim affiliate commissions
10:20 AM  •
Cristian Dina / The Next Web:  Munich-based QuantumDiamonds, which uses quantum sensors to detect chip defects, raised €91M, including €76M under the European Chips Act
10:01 AM  •
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:  Like the Claude app it imitates, the new ChatGPT “Super App”, which merges Codex with ChatGPT, is a tangle of toggles and strange UI decisions
9:40 AM  •
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:  An RIAA-led coalition representing labels and artists proposes two tags for AI content: one for entirely AI-generated songs and another for “AI-assisted” tracks
9:25 AM  •
Cameron Faulkner / The Verge:  Xreal launches $299 A01 Plus AR glasses, weighing just 62 grams and featuring 1080p micro OLED panels with a 120Hz refresh rate and a 50-degree field of view
9:10 AM  •
Muvija M / Reuters:  The UK designates Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle as critical third-party financial sector suppliers, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight
8:25 AM  •
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:  Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim plans to debut an agentic AI avatar of himself within days, which is meant to help the public navigate government services
8:15 AM  •
Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg:  Circle says it received US regulator approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank, allowing it to offer institutional custody services
7:15 AM  •
Matt Kapko / CyberScoop:  A US court sentences a former ransomware negotiator to 70 months in prison for colluding with BlackCat to extort $75.3M from five of his employer's clients
6:50 AM  •
Adam Satariano / New York Times:  In preliminary findings, the EU Commission said Facebook's and Instagram's “addictive design” violates the DSA, telling Meta to make changes or risk hefty fines
6:20 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Polymarket is seeking CFTC and NFA approval to offer margin trading in the US, which would let users bet on events with less capital upfront and attract traders
6:10 AM  •
Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters:  Taiwan's leading DRAM maker Nanya Technology expects its capex to exceed ~$6.2B in 2027, up ~4x YoY, and reports unaudited Q2 revenue of ~$2.6B, up 684% YoY
6:01 AM  •
Juro Osawa / The Information:  Memo: MiniMax CEO Junjie Yan tells employees he will forgo his salary until MiniMax achieves AGI and promises to allocate personal shares to employee incentives
5:50 AM  •
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:  OpenAI and Google sold AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, reigniting calls for tighter US regulation of AI models
5:01 AM  •
Gao Yuan / Bloomberg:  Interviews with employees and insiders reveal how CXMT is amassing tech, funding, and state support to challenge top memory chipmakers and build local suppliers
2:20 AM  •
SemiAnalysis:  A look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI
12:45 AM  •
Zijing Wu / Financial Times:  Sources: Manus' investors and management are discussing unwinding Meta's $2B buyout at the same valuation, with Tencent in talks to become the largest investor

July 9, 2026

11:50 PM  •
Financial Times:  Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a more than 5x return for Carlyle
11:20 PM  •
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:  Oxylabs, which develops web data scraping infrastructure, received a $130M investment at a $3.6B valuation from Warburg Pincus, its first outside investment
10:45 PM  •
Bloomberg:  MiniMax is looking to raise as much as $2B by selling 35.6M shares at ~$34 each and offering ~$830M in zero-coupon convertible bonds due in 2027
9:40 PM  •
Boone Ashworth / Wired:  1X says its humanoid robot Neo's five-fingered hands have tendon-style actuators that give them 25 degrees of freedom of movement; human hands usually have 27
9:01 PM  •
Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic:  How television, the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a decline in people reading longer works like books
7:45 PM  •
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:  SAP will make it easier for customers to switch to rival service providers or end contracts, averting a possible EU antitrust fine after a September 2025 probe
7:35 PM  •
Bloomberg:  SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for $149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed
7:03 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI Deployment, says she will step down and become a part-time adviser after her medical condition worsened; Simo joined in August
5:55 PM  •
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:  Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A
5:45 PM  •
Wall Street Journal:  Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock
5:20 PM  •
Hannah Lang / Reuters:  Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is stepping down after six years; VP of legal Molly Abraham will take his role with the title of general counsel
4:45 PM  •
Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post:  Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI
4:30 PM  •
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:  Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads made with its generative AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads
4:10 PM  •
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:  PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds
3:40 PM  •
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:  Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fable 5 from July 12, aims to return the model to Claude's subscription plans “when sufficient capacity allows”
3:30 PM  •
Sam Clark / Politico:  The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp
3:25 PM  •
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:  OpenAI discontinues ChatGPT Atlas, its desktop browser, in favor of its new ChatGPT desktop app, and says that August 9 is “the targeted date for deprecation”
3:20 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing raising new funds at a ~$20B valuation, after raising a $350M Series C at a $10B valuation in October
2:25 PM  •
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:  OpenAI merges its Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for macOS and Windows under an upgraded ChatGPT desktop app, letting users switch between Chat, Codex, and Work
1:35 PM  •
OpenAI:  GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.50 and $15, and GPT-5.6 Luna costs $1 and $6
1:06 PM  •
Axios:  OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on macOS and Windows
12:40 PM  •
Beatrice Nolan / Fortune:  Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI “regulation without transparent or complete rules”, and adds that “without rules, businesses can't plan”
12:00 PM  •
John Reynolds / Tech.eu:  Kraken Technology, which designs and builds autonomous maritime platforms, such as uncrewed subsurface vessels, raised a $175M Series B at a $1B valuation
11:25 AM  •
Jarred Sumner / bun.com:  Bun's creator says he rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust using a Claude Fable 5 prerelease version in 11 days, noting it would've taken three engineers “about a year”
10:50 AM  •
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:  Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows
10:30 AM  •
Ina Fried / Axios:  Meta prices Muse Spark 1.1 at $1.25/1M input tokens and $4.25/1M output tokens; Alexandr Wang says improving coding and agentic performance was a key focus
10:25 AM  •
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:  Meta launches a Meta Model API, which Mark Zuckerberg says will have “aggressive and attractive” pricing at ~25% of the cost of OpenAI's and Anthropic's models
10:12 AM  •
Dominic Preston / The Verge:  Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview
10:00 AM  •
Gené Teare / Crunchbase News:  European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised $10.4B, above Germany's $3.2B, and France's $2.4B
9:50 AM  •
Anthropic:  Anthropic debuts a “reflection” dashboard in beta for Free, Pro, and Max users with memory turned on, to track their Claude activity over 1, 3, 6, or 12 months
9:45 AM  •
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune:  Databento, which sells financial data feeds, raised a $97M Series B led by NEA, taking its total funding to $127M, and says it is “profitable every month”
9:40 AM  •
Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg:  Micron raises its US capex commitment to $250B through 2035, adding $50B for New York, Idaho, Virginia, and other projects, and invests $500M in GlobalWafers
9:30 AM  •
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:  Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures, following a $15M Series A led by Benchmark
9:20 AM  •
Aaron Tilley / The Information:  PrismML says it ran a 27B-parameter Qwen 3.6 model on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior on-device model; sources: Apple talked with PrismML about its tech
9:00 AM  •
Reuters:  Memo: Meta plans to start manufacturing its in-house AI chip, codenamed Iris, from September, as part of its plan to boost its computing power to 14GW in 2027
8:35 AM  •
Nikunj Ohri / Reuters:  India scraps import duties on some parts used to make devices like phones until March 31, 2029, removing 7.5% and 5% levies, which might help Apple and Xiaomi
8:15 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Apple supplier Luxshare fell in its Hong Kong trading debut, closing down 1.6%, after raising ~$3.1B in the city's biggest listing in 2026 so far
8:05 AM  •
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:  Enterprise AI agent startup Lyzr is raising a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation, up from $250M in March, and says its agents ran outreach for the round
6:45 AM  •
Leo Schwartz / The Information:  Internal DOJ memo: attorneys on crypto cases should expect less cooperation from Binance, which is adding asset freeze requirements; Binance denies any changes
6:30 AM  •
Paul Sandle / Reuters:  US cybersecurity and data resilience company Rubrik plans to invest $500M+ in the UK over the next five years and establish its European headquarters in London
6:05 AM  •
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:  Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize $293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries
5:55 AM  •
Lawrence Bonk / Engadget:  Leaked renders via Android Headlines show the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, Watch 9, and Watch Ultra 2; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 is likely the new wide foldable
5:40 AM  •
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:  Sources: Sonos' layoffs include some top design and product executives, like VP of Design Dana Krieger; CEO Tom Conrad says the changes reduce management layers
2:30 AM  •
Financial Times:  The AI data center boom has led to surging demand for power transformers, with average lead times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years
1:30 AM  •
Emma Whitford / Inside Higher Ed:  A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6%
1:05 AM  •
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:  Companies are mobilizing internal groups of “AI champions” to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025
12:50 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Shanghai-based GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX raised ~$902M in a Hong Kong share sale; the company's stock has soared 257% since its January IPO, which raised ~$473M

July 8, 2026

11:40 PM  •
The Information:  Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds of millions of dollars at a $9B valuation; a source says founder Marc Lore indicated he will contribute $200M
10:15 PM  •
Cognition:  Cognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7 and available in Devin at 1,000 tokens/second, claiming it nears frontier-level intelligence at a lower cost
8:00 PM  •
Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:  Block agrees to pay $45M and offer live customer support for Cash App to settle claims by 46 US states that the company failed to protect users from fraud
7:15 PM  •
Bloomberg:  Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~$750M in two phases, at valuations of $3.5B in the first tranche and ~$5B in the second
6:25 PM  •
Boone Ashworth / Wired:  The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years
5:10 PM  •
OpenAI:  OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark
4:00 PM  •
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:  Meta announces its first data center in Canada, and 33rd overall; the 1GW facility in Alberta will cost Meta ~$9B and take two to three years to construct
2:05 PM  •
Axios:  Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens
1:56 PM  •
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg:  SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to “handle difficult, long-running tasks” across finance, legal, and coding
1:14 PM  •
Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View:  OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users
1:08 PM  •
OpenAI:  OpenAI launches GPT-Live, new voice models powering ChatGPT Voice and built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time
12:30 PM  •
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:  Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation
11:55 AM  •
Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense:  Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 Ventures
11:40 AM  •
Rajasik Mukherjee / Reuters:  China's Nexchip Semiconductor says it aims to raise around $890.37M in its Hong Kong share sale by offering 216.2M shares at ~$4.12/share, the top of its range
11:25 AM  •
Meir Orbach / CTech:  Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture
11:20 AM  •
Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal:  GM-backed Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta saw a muted trading debut in its Hong Kong IPO, up 2.8% to value the company at ~$9B, after raising $751M
11:00 AM  •
Qianer Liu / The Information:  Sources: China plans to let some of its biggest AI companies buy a small number of Nvidia's H200 chips to offset a domestic computing shortage in recent months
10:50 AM  •
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:  Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that uses a single camera and basic language prompts
10:20 AM  •
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:  Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised $1.2B, its fourth fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, like AI and robotics; Paradigm had $11.9B in AUM at the end of 2025
10:10 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Nvidia lost ~$1T in market value in less than two months, dropping 16% from its May all-time-high, trading at 18x forward earnings, its lowest level since 2019
10:00 AM  •
Madison Mills / Axios:  The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro
9:21 AM  •
Corbin Bolies / Variety:  Kaon AI, which builds personalized story worlds using its AI-based FlowGPT and Emochi tools, raised $60M from B Capital and others, and says Emochi has 2M DAUs
9:10 AM  •
Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET:  Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia
8:55 AM  •
Tim Culpan / Culpium:  SK Hynix's IPO prospectus analysis, as it seeks to raise ~$28B on the Nasdaq: highly leveraged to HBM, deep and broad China ties, and health and safety concerns
8:45 AM  •
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:  Internal documents: Amazon is working on an Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, to handle more complex, multistep tasks, projecting $100M+ in GPU costs in 2026
8:36 AM  •
Anna Washenko / Engadget:  DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block most video ads by default, including those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists
8:21 AM  •
New York Times:  Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos
8:10 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Filing: Chinese AI model maker Z.ai is seeking to raise ~$4B from the sale of 19.8M shares at ~$202 to ~$216 each, after its Hong Kong stock soared 1,400%+ YTD
7:51 AM  •
Chris Metinko / Axios:  Israeli startup Velocity, which helps place targeted ads on consumer and B2B AI platforms, raised a $27M seed led by NFX and Red Dot, and serves 20 clients
6:36 AM  •
Zaker Li / Omdia:  Omdia expects a 22%+ YoY drop in global shipments for <$400 smartphones in 2026 amid soaring DRAM and NAND prices; Q1 memory costs were nearly 60% of materials
6:20 AM  •
Juro Osawa / The Information:  Sources: MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model internally called M3 Pro, which it could release as early as Q3 as open source; M3 has 428B parameters
6:10 AM  •
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:  Apple reaches a deal with Broadcom worth $30B+ to make 15B+ chips in the US over the next five years, Apple's largest as part of its $600B US investment pledge
6:06 AM  •
Financial Times:  South Korea's Kospi index is down 20%+ from its record high in June, falling 5%+ on Wednesday; Samsung and SK Hynix fell 5%+ amid long-term chip deal concerns
5:50 AM  •
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:  France's competition watchdog orders Meta to negotiate in good faith with news organizations over copyright payments, after two groups filed complaints in 2025
5:40 AM  •
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:  China's CNVD says it found “security backdoor vulnerabilities” in Claude Code that can be used to send info like “user location and identity to remote servers”
4:30 AM  •
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:  The EU General Court dismisses Apple's legal challenges against its designation as a DMA “gatekeeper” for its App Store and iOS; Apple filed the case in 2024
4:15 AM  •
Bloomberg:  Chip startup SambaNova raised a $1B Series F led by General Atlantic at an $11B valuation and signs JPMorgan as a customer to deploy its chips for in-house AI
3:55 AM  •
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:  US lawmakers are weighing strategies to curb US companies' growing adoption of Chinese AI models, as an ongoing House Committee investigation probes the risks
2:35 AM  •
Andrew Fedorov / New York Magazine:  A look at effective altruism's fall after SBF's arrest and how the soon-to-be rich from upcoming AI IPOs give the movement a chance to return larger than ever
2:20 AM  •
Financial Times:  Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent
2:10 AM  •
Nikkei Asia:  CPUs are now at the center of the AI race as Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, Arm, Google, Amazon, Chinese players, and others take on Intel and AMD in data centers
1:50 AM  •
Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider:  Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a $300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures
1:20 AM  •
CNBC:  A look at Chinese lidar maker Hesai, blacklisted by the US DOD in 2024, as it expands in the US; Hesai says it has ~33% of the global automotive lidar market
1:05 AM  •
David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups:  Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion
12:55 AM  •
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:  Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard
12:30 AM  •
Phoebe Liu / The Information:  Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their hardware in a new system to power AI models, the latest example of Nvidia partnering with a chip rival

July 7, 2026

11:25 PM  •
Axios:  OpenAI says it will launch GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, publicly on Thursday; a source says the US Department of Commerce approved a broad rollout
11:15 PM  •
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu:  Lisbon-based Bizay, a customized products marketplace for SMBs, raised a $55M Series D led by Indico, as it aims to accelerate its US expansion
10:25 PM  •
Financial Times:  Sources: Apple begins testing CXMT's DRAM chips for devices sold in China; Apple's interest thrusts CXMT and CXMT's state-owned shareholders into the spotlight
9:45 PM  •
Puyaan Singh / Reuters:  Sleep apnea device maker ResMed agrees to sell its software business MatrixCare to PE firm Frazier for $490M in cash; ResMed bought MatrixCare for $750M in 2018
8:55 PM  •
Victoria Song / The Verge:  Meta says it will update its smart glasses with a new feature that disables the camera when it detects that someone tampered with the device's privacy LED light
8:10 PM  •
Karissa Bell / Engadget:  Meta says Muse Image includes Content Seal, an invisible watermarking system, and previews a web tool that can check whether an image was generated with Meta AI
7:40 PM  •
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:  Sources detail Xbox's big reset after its Game Pass strategy failed; Xbox spent nearly $80B on content deals, but gamers prefer to stick with a handful of games
7:15 PM  •
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:  Samsung announces a Galaxy Unpacked event on July 22 in London, where it's expected to debut three foldables, including a Fold 8 with a shorter and wider design
6:30 PM  •
Reece Rogers / Wired:  As part of Meta's Muse Image rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their Posts and Reels by other users
6:00 PM  •
New York Times:  Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people in 2026, as AI companies expand their NYC presence
5:40 PM  •
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:  OpenAI Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam is leaving later this month after nearly nine years; in February, OpenAI disbanded the “mission alignment team” he led
5:05 PM  •
Grace Kay / The Information:  Memo: SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly developed AI model as soon as Wednesday, after pushing back the launch to improve model efficiency
4:30 PM  •
Meta:  Meta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews Muse Video, the first media generation models from its Superintelligence Labs

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