Dienstag, 14. Juli 2026

15:30
PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27B that it says runs natively on Apple devices via MLX; its CEO says Apple is evaluating the tech
CNBC
14:25
A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product
Washington Post
13:45
TerraFirma, a construction tech company founded by two former SpaceX engineers to build remote-controlled construction equipment, raised $115M
CNBC
13:00
Sources: Uber is in advanced talks to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal valuing the German food-delivery company well above its recent market value of €11.2B
Bloomberg
12:20
Google Images launches a Pinterest-like redesign with a browsable, dynamic gallery of images, and adds a way for users to create AI images in Search
TechCrunch
12:15
The European Commission proposes exempting wearable tech from rules requiring removable batteries, clearing a hurdle for Meta's smart glasses, after US pressure
Politico
12:10
Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features
9to5Mac
12:05
Sources: data center operator Switch has hired investment banks for a US IPO that could raise up to $10B and value it at $80B, set for as soon as Q4
Reuters
12:00
Hachette, Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow sue Google for allegedly using millions of copyrighted books and articles to build AI models
The Wrap
11:55
A Trump administration official says a “trivial” number of Nvidia's H200 chips were shipped to China after winning a US license, without offering specifics
Bloomberg
11:50
Chinese startup DFSX launches an AI chip that it claims uses a fully domestic supply chain and is built on a 14nm process, but says it can rival 4nm chips
Wall Street Journal
11:45
Velocity, a stablecoin treasury and settlement platform, raised a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, bringing its total funding to around $50M
The Block
11:30
OpenAI strikes a partnership with Kalshi to show FIFA World Cup prediction market data in ChatGPT search results, its first deal with a prediction market
New York Times
11:20
Spotify launches Talk to Spotify, letting users create playlists and more via voice, rolling out in beta to Premium users age 18+ in the US, Ireland, and Sweden
Engadget
11:10
Researcher: SpaceXAI's Grok Build CLI uploaded user repos to a Google Cloud Storage bucket; uploads have now stopped and Musk says prior uploads will be deleted
The Register
10:40
Filing: Chinese chipmaker CXMT is seeking to raise ~$9.8B in an IPO on Shanghai's chip-heavy STAR Board, pricing 6.69B shares at ~$1.28 each
Bloomberg
10:30
AI startup Reflection says it has signed a $1B+ deal to secure computing capacity from Nebius, including access to Nvidia chips, following a deal with SpaceX
Reuters
10:25
Kalshi launches a forward curve tool for AI compute, using event contracts to track the future rental costs of GPUs, storage, and memory
Bloomberg
10:20
Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M
GeekWire
09:35
Flex, which offers AI-based payment tools, credit, and more to mid-sized companies, raised a $70M Series B1 led by Halo Fund, a source says at a $1.2B valuation
Reuters
09:26
Analysis: xAI has installed far more gas turbines without US permits at Colossus 2 than it has publicly acknowledged, impacting Black neighborhoods the hardest
Reuters
09:20
Discount airline Frontier partners with SpaceX to offer Wi-Fi for the first time from early 2027, as it targets customers willing to pay more for premium travel
Wall Street Journal
09:11
Custom AI chip design startup TYLsemi raised $43M in early-stage funding led by Matter Venture Partners to build modular chips thanks to packaging tech advances
SiliconANGLE
08:35
Sources and telecom data: a coordinated campaign of SS7 pings was used to track the locations of US personnel during the US-led strikes on Iran in late February
Financial Times
08:11
AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it pitches its models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceutical companies
New York Times
07:56
The European Commission approves €659M in German state aid to support four first-of-a-kind chip facilities in Germany, saying they will strengthen EU autonomy
Reuters
07:30
IBM reports preliminary Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $17.2B, below $17.9B est., as CEO Arvind Krishna says customers are shifting spending to chips; IBM falls 25%+
Bloomberg
07:05
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new environmental permits for data centers over 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so
The Verge
06:45
Survey: 57% of US women and 47% of men ages 18 to 29 say they get health and wellness information from influencers; women say they see such content more often
Pew Research Center
06:30
Nikita Bier says X made a “tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals”, or those who users follow back, to avoid replies becoming a “battleground”
TechCrunch
06:20
Demis Hassabis proposes a US-based Standards Body for “Frontier-class” AI, modeled after FINRA; labs would share models for review up to 30 days before release
@demishassabis
06:10
Sources: DeepSeek is in preliminary talks with new investors about raising funds at a ~$71B valuation, after raising ~$7B at a ~$52B valuation at the end of May
Financial Times
06:01
A look at AI world models, including how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled, as startups led by tech leaders like Yann LeCun raise billions
Ars Technica
05:40
China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments
IDC
04:25
eMarketer: chatbots like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode will make <$1B in ad revenue in 2026; OpenAI projected $2.5B in ChatGPT ad revenue in 2026 and $100B by 2030
Adweek
03:55
Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029
Financial Times
02:25
Researchers detail “context bombing”, where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90%
Ars Technica
00:45
Sources: Nvidia has cut its Asian authorized AI chip clients by 50%+ and intensified due diligence in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan to prevent China diversions
Financial Times

Montag, 13. Juli 2026

23:20
In the wake of China's “embodied AI” push, there's an urgency among China's 100+ humanoid startups to launch IPOs; LimX Dynamics raised $200M in a pre-IPO round
CNBC
20:45
Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B+
TechCrunch
20:10
Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude expresses different values and behaviors across model versions and languages
Decrypt
19:45
Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures
TechCrunch
19:15
Source: the Trump administration and industry groups discussed streamlining US open model releases of equal or lesser capability to leading Chinese open models
Washington Post
18:55
Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the new Siri AI's first public launch
Engadget
15:15
Microsoft unveils a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results and files, removes ads from web results, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders
Windows Central
14:00
Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more
The Verge
13:00
Doc: DHS analysts twice dismissed signs of intruders inside the DHS' network, first detected in May, as harmless activity before confirming a breach in June
Nextgov/FCW
12:05
A coalition of 12 US states led by California files an antitrust lawsuit to block Paramount's WBD merger, alleging it lessens competition in three markets
Variety
11:55
London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA
Fortune
11:40
Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered “Smartbadges” worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation
GeekWire
11:15
Gauntlet, which helps institutions and crypto companies allocate their digital assets, raised a $125M Series C from Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings
Fortune
10:55
Global smartphone shipments fell 11% YoY in Q2 to the lowest Q2 levels since 2013 amid the DRAM and NAND shortage; Samsung returns to #1 with a 24% market share
Counterpoint Research
09:20
Apple's stock is up 16% since June 25, adding ~$650B in market value and pushing shares back to record territory, as investors flee an AI stock selloff to Apple
Bloomberg
09:10
Sources: US officials estimate unauthorized distillation costs US AI labs up to $6B/year; US AI labs told the White House it could become an existential threat
Bloomberg
08:55
Source: OpenAI still believes it is on track to unveil its first device in 2026 and release it in 2027; Apple's lawsuit may complicate hiring and supply chains
Bloomberg
08:45
Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder and one of the biggest names in UK tech, to join its compute team; he is taking a leave of absence from YC
Business Insider
08:15
Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufacturing at its Leixlip facility in Ireland; in 2025, Intel canceled a planned €30B factory in Magdeburg, Germany
Financial Times
07:30
Nearly 200 economists, including 15 Nobel laureates and Anthropic's Jack Clark, sign a letter titled We Must Act Now, warning of rapid AI-led job displacement
New York Times
07:15
Samsung says it now aims to begin operations at its first chipmaking plant in South Korea's Yongin by 2029, bringing the timeline forward from 2030 or 2031
The Information
07:00
Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its nearly 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW+ of compute, pushing its total spend beyond $250B
Bloomberg
06:50
The EU blacklists Russian intelligence group members it says were responsible for spying on and hacking targets across the EU and Ukraine from as early as 2010
Politico
06:35
China says President Xi will keynote the opening ceremony of the three-day World AI Conference in Shanghai on Friday, his first appearance at the event
Bloomberg
06:25
SK Hynix's stock falls 15%+ in Seoul, its largest-ever decline, after a strong Nasdaq debut, as investors book profits amid its US stock valuation uncertainty
CNBC
06:15
Investigation: Western intelligence officials identify a Russian military intelligence unit in Tokyo that smuggles high-tech components for the war in Ukraine
New York Times
06:00
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says after the summer the bloc is set to propose a “social media start date for minors” with “gradual access”
Financial Times
05:50
Sources: Shein is targeting a $40B+ valuation after winning Beijing's approval for a Hong Kong IPO, set for as early as Q3; Shein canceled its US IPO in 2024
Wall Street Journal
05:25
A Denmark-based research team is using quantum computers to accelerate AI for predicting proteins, showing a near-term commercial application for quantum tech
Wired
05:00
A look back at the 2007 heist at a Verizon data center in London, underlining the importance of physical data security as cyber defenses grow more sophisticated
New York Times
04:41
Munich-based defense tech startup Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E from Dragoneer, Iconiq, and others at an $18B valuation; Germany made €493M in orders in 2026
Bloomberg
04:05
Docs: Uber lobbied for a “phased transition” to AVs, giving it an edge over self-driving developers; Uber says AV industry proposals overlook drivers' rights
Wired
03:46
Eating disorder therapists say patients are increasingly using AI chatbots, undermining their advice; AI also appears to be directing more patients to helplines
Wall Street Journal
01:35
A look at ADI Predictstreet's rocky launch, marked by tiny trading volumes, fund withdrawal bugs, and other issues, as it tries to take on Kalshi and Polymarket
Wall Street Journal
00:45
A Taiwanese minister says TSMC plans two more advanced chip packaging plants in the Chiayi Science Park, with all four set to generate $9.35B+ in annual output
Reuters
00:00
Open-weight AI models face an existential US policy test; Anthropic is leading a regulatory capture campaign against Chinese models over distillation concerns
Interconnects AI

Sonntag, 12. Juli 2026

23:00
How museums are using AI chatbots to reach new audiences, as some researchers worry AI-generated inaccuracies and bias may undermine museums as trusted sources
Financial Times
21:05
A profile of Asha Sharma, an outsider elevated by Satya Nadella to lead Xbox, where she made sweeping job cuts and shed game studios within her first few months
Financial Times
20:15
Memo: Tang Jie, the founder of Z.ai, the Chinese lab behind GLM models, argues frontier AI capabilities should stay “as open and widely accessible as possible”
Bloomberg
18:30
Sources: Cursor is building a general-purpose AI agent codenamed Sand, aimed at non-developers, that handles emails, texts, and documents to rival Claude Cowork
The Information
17:40
OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending
Bloomberg
14:30
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”
The Economic Times
11:20
Sources: Apple is taping out the M7 with NPU upgrades and plans an M7 Ultra with 1.5TB of RAM, and the M8 for 2028; new Pencils are coming with new iPad Pros
Bloomberg
07:00
AI coding tool users are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement
Financial Times
02:00
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
Wall Street Journal
01:40
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
Financial Times
00:55
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
Business Insider
00:45
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
Financial Times

Samstag, 11. Juli 2026

21:15
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
Wall Street Journal
18:45
Current AI market dynamics point to frontier models becoming commodity infrastructure as the token crunch eases, with value shifting to products built on top
Benedict Evans
16:15
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
The Atlantic
14:15
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
Spyglass
12:45
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
Bloomberg
11:45
Filing: Google urged the European Commission not to target DNS resolvers, VPNs, or IPs to fight piracy, calling the measures ineffective and easily circumvented
TorrentFreak
09:45
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%
Indeed Hiring Lab
05:45
How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas
New York Times
02:30
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
Bloomberg
01:50
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%
Pangram Labs
01:35
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
Wall Street Journal
01:15
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
Bloomberg

Freitag, 10. Juli 2026

21:45
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
Wired
20:25
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”
Thinking Machines Lab
19:45
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
Reuters
19:20
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism
Variety
19:10
In response to Apple's trade secret theft lawsuit, OpenAI says “we have no interest in other companies' trade secrets”
9to5Mac
19:00
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
Cybersecurity Dive
18:10
Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber
TechCrunch
17:50
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
New York Times
17:21
Apple says OpenAI leadership “normalized” misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is “rotten to its core by its illegal reliance” on stolen trade secrets
TechCrunch
17:00
In its lawsuit, Apple chronicles in vivid detail how its former employees that went to work for OpenAI allegedly violated their confidentiality agreements
The Information
16:50
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
Axios
16:45
Apple claims OpenAI recruited 400+ ex-Apple employees, including an iPhone engineer who allegedly downloaded confidential hardware files before joining OpenAI
Bloomberg
16:40
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
CNBC
16:36
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
9to5Mac
16:00
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
CNBC
15:40
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
Reuters
15:10
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
Bloomberg
14:40
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
TechCrunch
13:50
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
Axios
12:35
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
Bloomberg
11:50
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
CNBC
10:55
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
Bloomberg
10:20
Munich-based QuantumDiamonds, which uses quantum sensors to detect chip defects, raised €91M, including €76M under the European Chips Act
The Next Web
10:01
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
Spyglass
09:40
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
Wall Street Journal
09:25
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
The Verge
09:10
The UK designates Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle as critical third-party financial sector suppliers, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight
Reuters
08:25
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
Bloomberg
08:15
Circle says it received US regulator approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank, allowing it to offer institutional custody services
Bloomberg
07:15
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
CyberScoop
06:50
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
New York Times
06:20
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
Bloomberg
06:10
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
Reuters
06:01
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
The Information
05:50
OpenAI and Google sold AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, reigniting calls for tighter US regulation of AI models
Financial Times
05:01
Interviews with employees and insiders reveal how CXMT is amassing tech, funding, and state support to challenge top memory chipmakers and build local suppliers
Bloomberg
02:20
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
SemiAnalysis
00:45
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
Financial Times

Donnerstag, 9. Juli 2026

23:50
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
Financial Times
23:20
Oxylabs, which develops web data scraping infrastructure, received a $130M investment at a $3.6B valuation from Warburg Pincus, its first outside investment
SiliconANGLE
22:45
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
Bloomberg
21:40
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
Wired
21:01
How television, the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a decline in people reading longer works like books
The Atlantic
19:45
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
Reuters
19:35
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
Bloomberg
19:03
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
Wall Street Journal
17:55
Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A
Fortune
17:45
Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock
Wall Street Journal
17:20
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
Reuters
16:45
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
Washington Post
16:30
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
TechCrunch
16:10
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
SiliconANGLE