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European Union antitrust regulators said on Wednesday they had signed off on Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The approval, which included concessions made by Paramount, comes as the deal has been delayed in the U.S. due to concerns raised by s

The San Diego Comic-Con kicks off tomorrow, and DC Studios and Warner Brothers are setting the stage by dropping the first full trailer for Clayface, part of the DC Universe’s “Gods and Monsters” arc. The film started out as a Mike Flanagan project (he’s the horror master who bro

On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems of AI dataset platform Hugging Face in a fully AI-enabled attack, a dramatic example of the dangers posed by advanced AI models. But, according to some cybersecurity experts, at the

Teenager drops social media addiction lawsuit against Meta - Published A Florida teenager who sued Meta claiming that he was addicted to and harmed by his use of platforms, such as Instagram, has dropped his case. The 15-year-old plaintiff, known by the initials R.K.C., had in re

Police formally investigate woman after Brit stabbed to death in French village - Published A woman has been placed under formal investigation over the death last year in France of a British-South African mother-of-four. Karen Carter, 65, was found lying near her car with stab wo

Off the Wire Press Releases July 22, 2026 — Scientists today face challenges of extraordinary scale and complexity. From shaping and simulating the intricate dynamics of fusion plasma, to exploring the vast search space of new materials, to making sense of the exabytes of data po

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Travis Kalanick’s robotics company, Atoms, has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz will join the company’s board following the investment. Bain Capital, Fifth Wall, and others participated in the round. Perhaps most notably, Uber also j

Iran's Houthi allies in Yemen have completed preparations to attack ships transiting the Red Sea's southern access point, a maritime security group led by the U.S. Navy has warned. "Sources close to the group stated that the Houthis have completed preparations to attack shipping,

OpenAI said that its artificial intelligence models were behind an "unprecedented cyber incident" that affected the open-source developer platform Hugging Face, rattling researchers across the industry. The company said a combination of its models GPT‑5.6 Sol and a more capable m

OpenAI said that its artificial intelligence models were behind an "unprecedented cyber incident" that affected the open-source developer platform Hugging Face, rattling researchers across the industry. The company said a combination of its models GPT‑5.6 Sol and a more capable m

Travis is Back a16z is backing Travis Kalanick’s “new” company, Atoms America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Read more about Atoms from Travis himself. We’re backing Travis Kalanick’s “new” company, Atoms, and I’m joining the board. I say “new” company a bit tongue-in-cheek,

Unfinished Business The Age of Atoms America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Today, ATOMS is announcing a $1.7B equity investment with lead investor A16Z and Ben Horowitz joining the board. As part of this investment we have merged our various businesses into one Atoms equity

Europe’s Chips Act: A Brief Supply Chain Opinion The European Chips Act is a bold step toward semiconductor sovereignty, but its success hinges on fostering local demand and innovation to sustain supply chains. The European Chips Act is the industrial policy Europe needed. It fin

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Hyundai Motor Company’s plan to put humanoid robots to work by 2028 is not part of current negotiations with striking South Korean autoworkers, according to the company. The automaker is disputing news reports that partial labor strikes by the Hyundai Motor union at the world’s l

Science Corporation, a startup developing novel brain-computer interfaces (BCI), won approval from Europe’s medical device regulator to begin selling a device that restores vision lost from age-related macular degeneration. The company said the device, called PRIMA, also received

As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends into large-scale entertainment platforms, a startup called Yope is quietly building what it believes will be the future of online connection: social networking with no algorithms, no ads, and no public content. Yope

White House Warns PJM to Reform Grid Governance ‘Before It Is Too Late’ Amid mounting pressure over rising AI power demand, the White House warns PJM Interconnection to overhaul its industry-controlled board or face potential regulatory fallout. The White House intensified pressu

The News The Trump administration is barreling toward a war funding crisis even as its conflict with Iran escalates, with slim chances of congressional approval for more defense money anytime soon. House Republicans are on the verge of passing a budget on Wednesday that sets up o

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthr

Off the Wire Press Releases SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 22, 2026 — AMD and Anthropic today announced a strategic partnership to deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in AMD Helios rack-scale solutions, with deployment of the first gigawatt beginning in the firs

Off the Wire Press Releases The program will help research communities enhance datasets to accelerate discovery in national priority areas. July 22, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation announced the NSF Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery program,

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Jensen Huang argues American companies should be allowed to use Chinese AI models — Nvidia CEO says backdoors connected to China are misconceptions He also believes that American AI should be accessible to everyone. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang thinks that American companies should be

Israeli workplace software maker Monday.com is laying off hundreds of employees as part of a restructuring plan to refocus its investments around AI projects. The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to “support a leaner, more focused operating mo

Off the Wire Press Releases July 22, 2026 — Today, Microsoft is excited to share a long-term commitment to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, backed by a $60 million investment designed to accelerate AI for science and the breakthroughs it can deliver for the count

Reed’s view The blast radius from Chinese open-weight model Kimi K3 continues to widen. President Donald Trump’s tech adviser Michael Kratsios and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are threatening China over what they deem as IP theft, while OpenAI’s Dean Ball is pushing the White

PsiQuantum is getting a $125 million cash infusion from DARPA, the startup announced today, a new vote of confidence for its efforts to build the world’s first large-scale quantum computer. PsiQuantum is part of DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, which started as a way to e

Off the Wire Press Releases July 22, 2026 — The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced $83 million in awards through the Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program. The awards will expand access to data infrastructure resources that researchers can use alongsid

Meet the a16z Forward Deployed Engineer Fellows The 65 fellows we've selected to join the inaugural cohort America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts We are excited to announce the fellows who will be part of the inaugural a16z Forward Deployed Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week coh

Google announced on Wednesday a new migration experience built directly into Android 17 that should ease the switch from iPhone to Android. The feature lets users wirelessly transfer more data types from an iPhone without needing to download a separate app, Google says. By simpli

In the early years of the United States, when the nascent US Navy was still getting its sea legs, several presidents used privateers to capture or destroy enemy warships when armed naval vessels were unable to do so. President John Adams was one of the most vigorous proponents of

Samsung on Wednesday detailed the features of its upcoming smart glasses, including gesture controls, as it looks to mount its first challenge to Meta in the device category. The South Korean tech giant had previously unveiled the "intelligent eyewear" at Google I/O conference in

He's not quite at the level of obscurity of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, but new Fed chief Kevin Warsh has settled on a few phrases that are notable for their repetition and lack of clarity. In five public appearances, starting with his nomination hearing in Ap

David’s view What’s the point of a political party? We’ve received a few answers to that question this month. Maine Democrats threw together a mini-primary to replace their US Senate nominee. In Wisconsin, where the Democrat most party leaders were comfortable with blew up her ca

Off the Wire Press Releases July 22, 2026 — The EuroHPC JU has signed a procurement contract with E4 Computer Engineering, the selected contractor, for the acquisition, delivery, installation and maintenance of MeluXina-AI, a new AI-optimized supercomputer for the EuroHPC AIF in

OpenAI says an agent powered by its LLM models escaped its sandboxed testing environment to infiltrate Hugging Face’s servers as part of an overzealous attempt to obtain solutions to a benchmark test. The company says it considers the unintended infiltration an “an unprecedented

Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and the first specs in the process, including an impressive 9-hour battery life. The glasses, developed in collaboration with Google and the eyewear brands Gentle Mo

A TensorRT engine build can take seconds to many minutes. Large strongly typed models, deep tactic search, and a cold timing cache on a brand-new GPU SKU can leave developers, end users, or AI agents staring at a frozen terminal with no idea whether to wait, retry, or kill the pr

As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments about what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch. There’s talk that the Trump administration might try to ban them (though it hasn’t yet acted on the idea). Meanwhile, propriet