Montag, 6. Juli 2026

11:55
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs SB 315, a bill requiring annual third-party safety audits of leading AI companies; OpenAI and Anthropic backed the bill
CBS News
10:35
Nintendo plans to stop selling the original Switch, Lite, and OLED in Europe from mid-February 2027 and update the Switch 2 to comply with new EU battery rules
The Verge
10:25
Filing: Strategy sold 3,588 bitcoin for ~$216M between June 29 and July 5 to replenish its USD reserve; its holdings have an $11.4B paper loss at current prices
The Block
09:41
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says the unit will divest five studios, including Ninja Theory, alongside ~3,200 job cuts, to streamline the business, in a “reset”
Bloomberg
09:36
Microsoft is laying off ~4,800 employees, or ~2.1% of its workforce; most are in sales or Xbox, where ~20% of jobs are set to be cut by the end of FY 2027
The Verge
09:01
Reddit says its AI-powered content moderation systems caught 25K “spammy posts and comments” per day in Q1, reducing users' exposure to such content by 20% YoY
Bloomberg
08:40
Broadcom agrees to expand its Apple partnership through 2031 to develop and supply custom chips; in 2023, the companies announced a multibillion-dollar 5G deal
Reuters
08:25
Anthropic signs a 20-year, ~$19B lease to use a TeraWulf data center in Kentucky, set to have a ~400MW capacity and to start delivering power in H2 2027
CNBC
08:15
AI agent training platform Bespoke Labs raised $40M across a seed led by 8VC and a Series A led by Wing, saying the funding gives it almost two years of runway
Axios
07:50
Filing: Brookfield-backed data center company Csquare seeks to raise up to $1.35B in an IPO, selling 50M shares at $23 to $27 each for an up to $4.18B valuation
Bloomberg
07:35
How Masayoshi Son is remaking SoftBank in his own image, betting on AI; SoftBank trades at a ~50% discount to its net asset value, as some question his strategy
Financial Times
07:10
A profile of Samsung union leader Choi Seung-ho, who helped win a ~$26B bonus package for chip employees, as he tries to resolve the rift over bonus gaps
Bloomberg
06:55
An interview with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via a SPAC, the physical layer as its core advantage, safety, and more
TechCrunch
06:40
AI-driven drops in labor income and gains in capital income could hit Ireland's tax base, with 6%+ of its workforce in tech and heavy exposure to US companies
Bloomberg
06:20
Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media
New York Times
06:05
Ripple secures CASP authorization from Luxembourg's financial regulator, making it fully MiCA-compliant to offer crypto services across 30 EEA countries
The Block
06:01
Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent
TechCrunch
05:35
SK Hynix launches a US share sale on the Nasdaq to raise ~$28B, selling 17.79M new shares; the final listing price is due Thursday before trading starts Friday
Reuters
05:30
Doc: a draft US Treasury Department report is set to warn about the AI market's risks, likening key aspects to the dotcom bubble bursting in the early 2000s
NOTUS
04:35
Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 seem worse at tool calling than older models, likely due to post-training that assumes Claude Code-like harnesses as the targets
Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
01:35
SemiAnalysis: Nvidia delays its next-gen AI rack system Kyber NVL144 by 12+ months to 2028 due to PCB manufacturing issues, and cancels its NVL72x2 architecture
CNBC
01:05
Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$892.5M in a new share sale to boost GPU production; Biren's stock is up nearly 150% since its January Hong Kong IPO
South China Morning Post
00:15
Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known “agentic ransomware”, which adapts in real time by retrying steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation
BleepingComputer

Sonntag, 5. Juli 2026

23:20
A US federal judge orders the DOD to shield Alibaba from a law that caused its lobbyists to drop it as a client while she weighs the measure's constitutionality
Bloomberg
22:05
Nvidia, Neura Robotics, and others are building safety systems for humanoid robots to minimize risks, like the consequences of a bipedal robot losing stability
Wall Street Journal
21:05
A look at Threads and an interview with Head of Threads Connor Hayes, as the platform passes 500M MAUs and increasingly resembles Reddit with a community focus
New York Times
19:50
Kuo: Apple suppliers plan to ship <1M foldable iPhones in Q3 2026, which may push the start of device preorders and sales to Q4, with weeks of delivery delays
Ming-Chi Kuo
18:20
Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a human safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026
The Information
16:55
ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will disable humanlike and user-created agents before July 15, as China's anthropomorphic AI interaction rules take effect
South China Morning Post
14:45
Data centers offer the US a chance to get ahead in the next key technologies and build domestic supply chains based on demand rather than subsidies and tariffs
Financial Times
11:15
Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received $100B+ in crypto in 2025, almost 8x the amount in 2024
Wall Street Journal
08:00
Analysis: nearly 1M $TRUMP retail buyers lost a combined $3.81B, while <500K mostly early wallets captured $4B in gains, a textbook memecoin wealth transfer
New York Times
02:00
A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media addiction
Bloomberg
01:30
Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its ~50 deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged internet company with ~$4.4B in debt
Financial Times
01:10
NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge funds, raised a $22M Series A co-led by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures
Tech Funding News
00:45
Sources: Uber halts plans to launch food delivery in five of the seven European countries it had targeted for expansion as it pursues a Delivery Hero takeover
Financial Times
00:40
India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an action-taken report within 15 days
Hindustan Times

Samstag, 4. Juli 2026

21:55
AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement
The Register
19:30
Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms
The Guardian
17:05
Indonesia's enforcement of social media restrictions for under-16s has been patchy, with tech companies ignoring the rules and youth still accessing platforms
Nikkei Asia
15:05
How some high-income families use AI-powered private schools and tutors, such as Alpha School, to teach their children life skills and tailor their curriculum
Wall Street Journal
13:05
A look at the troubled rollout of the EU's automated biometric entry/exit border system, as airport operators warn of severe delays ahead of the summer holidays
Financial Times
11:20
How ByteDance is making Hollywood inroads with its Seedance video generator, thanks to low pricing, striking realism, and features like timeline-based prompting
Los Angeles Times
09:55
Q&A with Doug Brooks, senior product manager of Apple silicon, about Mac minis becoming preferred AI agent machines, future of on-device AI, and more
The Deep View
08:30
Official data shows Hong Kong accounted for 50%+ of China's $239B in chip imports in the first five months of 2026, a record share, up from ~33% a decade ago
Bloomberg
02:30
A profile of Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel, whose work has tracked, and in many cases predicted, the ethical challenges posed by the success of LLMs
The Guardian
01:35
Micron breaks ground on its ~$9.3B Hiroshima factory expansion, part of its global ramp-up to meet AI demand, and plans to start HBM shipments from summer 2028
Bloomberg
01:15
Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics, which develops spatial tech to let autonomous robots operate in complex, GPS-denied environments, raised a $125M Series A
TNGlobal
01:10
Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a Series A at a $500M valuation
TechCrunch
00:40
Montreal-based Stathera, a maker of MEMS-based silicon timing components for chips, raised a $55M Series B led by Maverick Silicon, taking total funding to $75M
BetaKit

Freitag, 3. Juli 2026

21:20
Midjourney wants Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. to reveal in court how they use AI across their companies; studios sued Midjourney in 2025 for infringement
Variety
18:20
A look at the quant fund frenzy in China, as assets under management have more than doubled to ~$384B in less than a year amid rapid AI adoption
Bloomberg
15:30
Meta could use its compute for its own models, ad scaling, SpaceX-like neocloud deals, and hosting 3rd-party models; it may be close to an Anthropic deal
SemiAnalysis
14:30
Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout
Spyglass
12:10
Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like “rape video” and “child video” and linking to Telegram channels
BBC
11:30
An interview with Sriram Krishnan, who says “there will not be an FDA for AI” under Trump, blames the AI backlash on the industry's “doomer” messaging, and more
Financial Times
10:15
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opens an investigation into StubHub following complaints of last-minute ticket cancellations for FIFA World Cup 2026 matches
Bloomberg
08:25
How Jeff Bezos' changing relationship with President Trump has helped Amazon and Blue Origin, such as more federal contracts awarded during Trump's second term
Wall Street Journal
06:51
Filing: GoDaddy challenges a New Delhi court ruling requiring domain sellers to stop offering privacy by default, saying it could expose website owners globally
Reuters
06:10
India's IT secretary said the country is investigating a data breach at Apple supplier Tata, which exposed files that included photos of iPhone 18 Pro models
Reuters
06:06
Pitch document: Chris Larsen, Palmer Luckey, and others invested undisclosed amounts in APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's son
Politico
05:45
Sources: Alibaba banned Claude Code internally and asked its employees to remove all Claude models from their work computers due to Anthropic security concerns
The Information
02:25
A look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability
The Verge
01:15
Sources: Anthropic moves to close loopholes that let Chinese companies like Ant use its models via workarounds such as cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries
Financial Times
00:00
Blackstone's QTS abandons plans to build its portion of a 2,100-acre data center campus in Virginia, after years of organized opposition and legal challenges
Bloomberg

Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2026

22:30
Letter to Scott Bessent: chip group SEMI, which includes Micron and Samsung, warns that US intervention in chip pricing or capacity would worsen chip shortages
Bloomberg
21:35
Sources: Alexandr Wang said Meta's model currently in training, codenamed Watermelon, matches GPT-5.5 and uses an “order of magnitude more compute than Avocado”
Business Insider
21:10
Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal
The Information
20:00
Spotify removed 500K+ streams of Malcolm Todd's Earrings after a 70% surge in 24 hours sent it to #1 on Spotify USA and coincided with suspicious Kalshi wagers
Financial Times
19:10
Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2.12% in its Nasdaq debut on July 2 after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.9B valuation
TechCrunch
18:10
Sources: Crusoe is in active talks to raise ~$3B in a funding round expected to value the startup within the ~$30B range, up from a ~$10B valuation in October
Bloomberg
17:00
At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's reorganization was not as “clean” as it could have been and its AI agent development has not accelerated as expected
Reuters
16:30
Source: crypto payments network startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at an up to $2B valuation, after raising $75M at a $1B valuation in January
Axios
16:10
Travel app Hopper agrees to a $35M settlement with the FTC over allegations the company misled users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs
TechCrunch
15:35
Memo: Tesla plans to impose a $200-per-week limit for its staff's AI spending from July 6, excluding beta xAI products, and require a sign-off to spend more
The Information
15:15
Sources: ElevenLabs held early talks with investors on a secondary share sale for staff that would value the startup at ~$22B; it was valued at $11B in February
Bloomberg
14:45
UK-based StirlingX, which develops secure data intelligence systems for defense and critical infrastructure, raised a $20M Series A, following a $11M seed
Tech.eu
13:55
Memo: Microsoft is merging its consumer and enterprise Copilot versions into a single app featuring coding tools and AI agents dubbed AutoPilot that cost extra
The Information
13:45
Tripo AI, which is developing 3D foundation models and world models for use in games, raised $150M, a month after it said it raised $200M
GamesBeat
13:00
Emails disclosed in a court filing detail the uneasy back-and-forth between Dario Amodei and the DOD's Emil Michael and how Anthropic's DOD relationship soured
Wall Street Journal
12:00
Sources: Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank is in talks to raise money at an $8B+ valuation, up from $4.35B in 2025; its deposits are up from $1.1B in March to $4.05B
Bloomberg
11:45
Kling AI, the Kuaishou AI video generator spin-off, raised $2B at a $15B pre-money valuation and says the round could extend to as much as $3B
Bloomberg
09:55
Sources: Anthropic has initiated early-stage development of a custom AI server chip and held preliminary discussions with Samsung about manufacturing the chip
The Information
09:40
Global VC funding hit a record $510B in H1 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic accounting for $217B, or 43% of the total; in Q2, VCs put $205B into 5,000+ startups
Crunchbase News
09:15
Microsoft invests $2.5B and forms the Microsoft Frontier Company to embed 6,000 forward-deployed engineers with customers to help deploy AI systems
GeekWire
08:00
Sam Altman proposes a “US-led international forum” to establish AI standards, provide analysis of capabilities and risks, and make AI models available to allies
Financial Times
07:50
SoftBank and its telecom unit launch SB Neo to offer AI chips and cloud services to big companies, aiming to provide 10GW of capacity in the US by around 2030
Bloomberg
07:20
Z.ai launches ZCode, an “Agentic Development Environment” purpose-built for its GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan tiers range from $16.20 to $144 per month
VentureBeat
07:05
Filings: Trump purchased up to $5M each in Broadcom, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia stocks on July 23, the same day he unveiled his AI action plan
New York Times
06:55
Amazon says Leo now has 396 satellites in low-Earth orbit, following a July 1 launch, which is “enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes”
The Verge
06:45
German software giant SAP says it's encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, to try to avoid layoffs; SAP cut nearly 10K staff in 2024
New York Times
06:25
The US DOJ says Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen, was extradited from Finland to face charges of participating in Scattered Spider hacks
The Record
06:10
President Trump says Micron will invest $250M in Trump Accounts; Micron says it will come via an employee matching program and a $250 deposit in some US states
New York Times
06:00
Cloudflare sets a September 15 deadline for AI companies to differentiate their web crawlers into search, AI training, and AI agents or face being blocked
NBC News
05:50
Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones used by Ukraine, raised $1.2B led by Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, and Advent at an ~$8B valuation
Bloomberg
04:55
An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with AI-enabled gadgets, and more
CNBC
04:40
The European Court of Justice rules that Google's earlier defeat against a €4.1B European Commission penalty over abusing Android's market power should stand
Bloomberg
04:30
A look at the CSOP SK Hynix Leveraged ETF, which trades in Hong Kong and has ballooned into a $13B fund, becoming the world's largest single-stock leveraged ETF
Bloomberg
02:30
A survey of US adults finds 56% support banning social media for under-16s, while 21% oppose; majorities across demographic and partisan groups support a ban
Pew Research Center
02:00
Nansen: about two-thirds of Trump's memecoin investors are currently in the red, and 85% of World Liberty's $WLFI buyers on the secondary market are underwater
Wall Street Journal
01:50
UK lawyers say the tide of AI-assisted employment claims is straining an already overloaded employment tribunal system, whose backlog is up 55% YoY to 64K
Financial Times
01:30
CarbonSix, which is developing AI automation and robotic intelligence tech for manufacturing, raised a $40M Series A co-led by DSC Investment and LB Investment
FinSMEs
01:25
Indian IT company Persistent Systems offers to acquire its Germany-based peer Nagarro for $1.45B; Indian IT companies are ramping up M&A as AI reshapes growth
Nikkei Asia
01:10
An EU draft proposal dated June 30 shows the bloc is weighing weaker climate impact rules for gas-powered data centers, after heavy lobbying from tech groups
Financial Times
00:50
Nvidia promises to financially backstop young cloud providers, like Firmus and Sharon AI, by renting back unused GPUs, in exchange for a share of their revenues
The Information
00:20
Sources: OpenAI has discussed giving a 5% stake to the US government, seeking to clear political obstacles by securing buy-in from the Trump administration
Financial Times

Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2026

23:55
Sources: data center operator Switch seeks a ~$2B funding round valuing it at ~$50B, including debt, led by a $400M investment from a16z, ahead of a 2027 IPO
Bloomberg
23:50
Sources: Apple told suppliers to prepare to produce ~10M foldable iPhones in 2026, up from a forecast of 7M to 8M, and 80M iPhones in total across new models
Nikkei Asia
23:30
Sources: Apple is in negotiations to buy chips from CXMT and YMTC, two Chinese semiconductor makers on a Pentagon blacklist, for use in devices sold in China
Bloomberg
23:05
X launches Live Studio, an updated livestreaming hub within Creator Studio with a simplified desktop setup, chat control options, thumbnail uploads, and more
Social Media Today
22:05
India-based short video app ShareChat's parent company Mohalla Tech plans to raise up to $400M in an IPO in 2027; ShareChat has ~65M monthly micro-drama viewers
Bloomberg
21:00
Amazon's emissions rose 16% YoY in 2025, driven by data center construction and delivery fuel, while Google's “ambition-based” emissions jumped 18% YoY in 2025
Bloomberg
20:05
Sources: the White House is in advanced talks with AI companies on voluntary standards and new model release timelines, to be announced as soon as next week
Financial Times
19:50
Bending Spoons, which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Evernote, closed up 40% in its US market debut on Wednesday at a $25.7B valuation, after raising $1.68B in its IPO
Bloomberg
18:55
Higharc, which uses AI to assist house builders in design and construction, raised a $95M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $170M+
Triangle Business Journal
17:50
Lime's shares closed up 4% in its Nasdaq debut on Wednesday, valuing the company at ~$1.7B, after Lime and existing stockholders raised ~$174M in its US IPO
Reuters
17:26
Sources: Apple is working on four new iPad Pros and an entry-level 14" MacBook Pro for H1 2027 with a new design in line with its upcoming touch-screen laptops
Bloomberg
16:55
Alibaba and its US payment processor AUS agree to pay $600M to resolve DOJ allegations that they failed to stop illegal sales of ~80K drugs and other products
Reuters
16:40
Sources: SoftBank has reopened talks for a $10B loan backed by its OpenAI stake and is offering to guarantee repayment if its pledged OpenAI shares lose value
Reuters
15:50
Alex Karp calls US reliance on AI labs for military tech “effing insane”, pans AI fees for businesses, and touts Palantir's Nvidia Nemotron deal for US agencies
Forbes
14:13
Sources: SpaceX showed investors a handset-like device prototype with AI tech from xAI, a proprietary OS, a Snapdragon chip, and a design slimmer than an iPhone
Wall Street Journal
14:05
Sources: Microsoft has been working on a disc-to-digital feature for Xbox One and Xbox Series X that will let users digitize their physical game collections
The Verge
12:20
Venice AI, which offers access to 200+ AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a $65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation
TechCrunch