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Memo: the GOP asks AI companies to stem the public backlash against data centers, saying the issue could kill its chances of holding a vital Senate seat in Ohio Axios
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SpaceX approached Cognition about a potential acquisition, but Cognition didn't engage; Cognition CEO Scott Wu says the company is "not for sale" Bloomberg
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Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the US, automatically upgrading users even if they don't subscribe to Prime TechCrunch
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Google announces new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus student offers for Google AI plans Tom's Guide
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AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise ~$600M at a $6.5B pre-money valuation, up from ~$1B in May, and has an initial ~$250M deal with Anthropic Bloomberg

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab ·

A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers

Every day the fact-checking team for one of India's largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media.

Bloomberg ·

London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, the UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others

Callosum, a startup that makes software to match specific artificial intelligence tasks with different models and chips …

Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide ·

Google announces new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus student offers for Google AI plans

Head back to school equipped with AI tools for studying, researching and more

Bloomberg ·

SpaceX approached Cognition about a potential acquisition, but Cognition didn't engage; Cognition CEO Scott Wu says the company is "not for sale"

SpaceX Attempted to Buy AI Coding Startup Cognition

Bloomberg ·

AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise ~$600M at a $6.5B pre-money valuation, up from ~$1B in May, and has an initial ~$250M deal with Anthropic

Fractile, a startup developing chips tailored for artificial intelligence use that has a deal to supply Anthropic PBC …

Emma Roth / The Verge ·

Meta launches a Mac app for Meta AI and says Meta AI can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace

You can share your window with the new Meta AI app, as well as connect it to Google Workspace. … Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot.

Alex Isenstadt / Axios ·

Memo: the GOP asks AI companies to stem the public backlash against data centers, saying the issue could kill its chances of holding a vital Senate seat in Ohio

The Senate GOP campaign arm, in a private memo to top AI companies, warns that toxic views of U.S. data centers are killing …

Brian Gormley / Wall Street Journal ·

Network Bio, which is developing an AI foundation model from datasets of patient tissue and blood samples created by pooling access to biobanks, raised $50M

With $50 million in hand, Network Bio plans to offer virtual access to tissue and blood samples from major academic hospitals

Murad Hemmadi / The Logic ·

Veeda, which is developing world models and is led by ex-Nvidia VP of AI Research Sanja Fidler, raised a $90M+ seed and is backed by Khosla and Radical

Toronto-based Veeda is building control systems for physical AI, and is backed by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, The Logic has learned

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·

Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the US, automatically upgrading users even if they don't subscribe to Prime

AI is coming to your TV, whether you want it or not.

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE ·

Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI raised $22M from Integrity Growth Partners, marking the nine-year-old startup's first-ever outside capital raise

Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI Ltd. today said it has raised $22 million in growth funding, the first primary capital it has taken since being founded nine years ago.

Wired ·

Reconstructed code from Flock's login pages reveals OS Investigate, a new AI system that integrates license plate scans, arrest records, case files, and more

Flock's surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police …

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information ·

Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs

Following the playbook Palantir pioneered, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are investing billions of dollars to hire …

Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg ·

Kuaishou reports Q2 revenue flat at ~$5.2B, meeting est., net income down 36% YoY to ~$467M, the biggest drop since 2021, and Kling AI sales up 200%

Kuaishou Technology earnings fell the most in five years, hit by higher revenue sharing payouts to creators while artificial intelligence …

Denny Thomas / Bloomberg ·

Filing: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending

SK Hynix Inc. unveiled plans to buy back 40 trillion won ($29 billion) of stock and return more of its profits to shareholders …

Reuters ·

Samsung raises prices for advanced 4nm and 5nm chipmaking services by up to 15% for new orders in July, driven by AI demand and TSMC's tight capacity

Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) has raised prices for some advanced contract chipmaking services by up to 15% for new orders …

Alexander Martin / The Record ·

AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over unanswered questions

The company at the center of a series of incidents in which AI models compromised real-world computer systems during supposedly …

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat ·

Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0

Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the music streaming service Tidal …

Ari Levy / CNBC ·

Nvidia, with quarterly free cash flow up 18x over the past three years to $48.5B, is using its balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat

Nvidia's massive head start in artificial intelligence turned the chipmaker into the world's most valuable company.

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat ·

Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40/1M input tokens and $4.40/1M output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2; Kimi K3 costs $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens

After a stunning debut last week with cyber capabilities so advanced they reportedly found a previously undetected vulnerability in Cursor …

Mike Stone / Reuters ·

Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In

Smack Technologies, a defense-technology startup building artificial intelligence decision-making tools for the military …

Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune ·

Rillet, which is developing an AI-native accounting platform, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Iconiq, bringing its total funding to $200M+

Rillet, a two-year-old startup building what it calls the first truly AI-native accounting platform, has raised a $100 million Series C …

Pew Research Center ·

Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30

Americans have become increasingly worried about artificial intelligence over the years, and young adults' concern has continued to climb.

New York Times ·

Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they "could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information"

The agency joins a growing number of workplaces and groups to ban Meta's devices, which have spurred privacy concerns.

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News ·

VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024

Funding to physical AI companies is booming in 2026.

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE ·

Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a $20M Series A, following a $10M seed in January 2025

Artificial intelligence startup Palona AI, which is building an intelligence operating layer for physical businesses …

Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters ·

Velaura AI, which makes low-power chips and software for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation

Velaura AI was valued at more than $1 billion on Tuesday after raising $110 million in a Series A funding round …

Andy Greenberg / Wired ·

Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging "a hundred million people" from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more

Proton's CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?

Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg ·

Alibaba's Alipay launches a new "all-in-one" platform for businesses to use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock jumps 5%+ and is up 40%+ since June

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares rose the most in two weeks as the launch of a new ecommerce platform boosted optimism toward …

Jay Peters / The Verge ·

Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android

Reddit's latest experiment creates videos with AI voices reading posts and comments out loud.

Madeleine Cuff / New Scientist ·

Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts

Operation Blue Skies is the world's first trial to deploy contrail avoidance measures across an entire airspace …

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal ·

AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July

Etched, founded by Harvard dropouts, has its own in-office data center and has signed quant-trading firm Jane Street as its first customer.

Bloomberg ·

Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals

Baidu Inc.'s revenue fell for a fifth consecutive quarter, reflecting a weakening position in ads as well as AI development against rivals like Moonshot.

Owen Dahlkamp / Politico ·

AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch

Congressional lawyers are struggling to manage a flood of legislative proposals generated using artificial intelligence tools …

Jason Parham / Wired ·

Rogue Studio, which calls itself a "playground for creative ethical mischief", launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool to make adult content of Hollywood quality

Rogue Studios, a new cinematic adult AI-generator, is betting big on the future of "sophisticated" spicy content.

David Sacks / @davidsacks ·

David Sacks says "Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize" after Amodei shared policy ideas

Some thoughts on Dario's post: 1. Dario does not actually address Gavin Baker's account of what he said - something he could easily deny if it were inaccurate. 2. Dario claims his critics live in a "bubble" where all regulation equals regulatory capture. He calls this an overly

Bloomberg ·

The US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of a Justice Department antitrust probe over whether its investment partners …

James Nani / Bloomberg Law ·

Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models

Google LLC won a bankruptcy auction for a trove of deindentified business data, software code, and operations records …

Tobias Burns / CNBC ·

Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations

Recent Securities and Exchange Commission guidance is underpinning the debt-fueled data center buildout to support artificial intelligence.

Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media ·

Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

Lawrence Delevingne / Reuters ·

Trump-backed WLF is working with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw; 43 of the 90 AI models on WorldClaw are from Chinese companies flagged as security risks

President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with a Hong Kong-based venture offering artificial …

Greg Brockman ·

Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident "a watershed moment" and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses

The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities …

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune ·

Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers

Tanay Kothari saw Iron Man when he was 10 years old.

Wall Street Journal ·

Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their ~$600B in reported capex

Massive spending commitments for data-center leases and chips aren't shown on companies' balance sheets

Bob Tita / Wall Street Journal ·

How US industrial companies like Caterpillar, Cummins, Eaton, and Ford are pivoting their businesses to feed a booming AI data-center market for power equipment

Companies such as Caterpillar and Cummins are pivoting to feed a booming market for once-prosaic power equipment

Robert Booth / The Guardian ·

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing

Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

James Fontanella-Khan / Financial Times ·

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B in January

Company founded by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov targets marketing content for businesses

Financial Times ·

Singapore hopes access to advanced AI models will stem the flow of finance talent to Hong Kong, where financial firms struggle to access the latest US AI models

Close relations with both US and China mean the latest AI models are easily accessible in the city-state

Reggie Ugwu / New York Times ·

A look at companies like Inception Point creating AI personas for media, fashion, film, and music industries that could host podcasts, model clothes, and more

The A.I. personas created by Inception Point AI include, clockwise from top left, Claire Delish, VV Steele, Nigel Thistledown and Lila Walker.Inception Point AI

Bloomberg ·

Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; founded in 2023, OpenRouter had a $1.3B valuation in May

Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter Inc., a startup that helps companies switch between artificial intelligence models …

Washington Post ·

How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US

Across the United States, political candidates are grappling with an issue that has never before featured widely in American political life: artificial intelligence.

Alex Janin / Wall Street Journal ·

Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases

Patients, doctors and nurses are turning to the technology for help identifying rare and undiagnosed diseases

Antoine Tardif / Unite.AI ·

Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its "Post-Transformer" BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation

AI research company Pathway has secured additional funding at a $500 million valuation, bringing its total seed financing to $30 million …

Grace Shao / Bloomberg ·

Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population

Different experiences with technology have shaped radically different expectations of what artificial intelligence will bring.

Dario Amodei / @darioamodei ·

Dario Amodei defends his policy proposals, warns open weights won't decentralize power, endorses pre-launch vetting, says real accomplishments will earn trust

1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that "either concentrate it in the hands of a

Anna Liss-Roy / Washington Post ·