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2026-07-25Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic quietly lobby Washington regulators to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI (New York Times)
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2026-07-25SK Group Chair Chey Tae Won says Anthropic has asked SK Hynix for supplies to make its own chips, calling it remarkable that an AI developer has chip ambitions (Ian King/Bloomberg)
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2026-07-25As student protests spread across India, Narendra Modi turns to Reels, swapping his trademark cinematic videos for self-recorded messages aimed at Gen Z (Akriti Sharma/Bloomberg)
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2026-07-25A profile of Hangzhou-based Unitree, which shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, accounting for 25%+ of the global market, as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO (Charlie Campbell/Time)
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2026-07-25Samsung announces a $200B+ contract to make chips for Broadcom through 2030, focusing on its 2nm and below process technologies for Broadcom's products (Hooyeon Kim/Bloomberg)
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2026-07-25A profile of Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, which faced early doubts over revenue and model capabilities before its Kimi K3 delivered a "DeepSeek moment" (Financial Times)
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2026-07-25Candid Health, which develops tech and AI agents to automate medical billing and claims processing workflows, raised a $120M Series D led by Sixth Street Growth (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
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2026-07-25Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says Verizon will provide dark-fiber connectivity for Google's data centers in a $1B+ deal, with more such deals in the pipeline (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
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2026-07-25Meshy, whose AI-powered tech lets users generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised a ~$400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News)
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2026-07-25Analysis: US tech companies have cut ~140K jobs YTD, or more than 33% of announced US layoffs in 2026, with ~50K cuts from Amazon, Oracle, Meta, and Microsoft (Financial Times)
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2026-07-25Progress Software agrees to acquire Domo's AI and data platform business for $400M; Domo will remain publicly listed and change its name after the deal closes (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
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2026-07-25Neocloud Fluidstack, which has partnered with Anthropic, announces that it raised an $830M Series A led by Situational Awareness at a $7.5B valuation in January (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
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2026-07-25Sources: CXMT expelled Huawei-linked SiCarrier staff from its R&D zone amid a pricing dispute, as Chinese memory makers flex their newfound clout to hike prices (Reuters)
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2026-07-25Sources: Apple has pitched Trump on using Chinese memory chips in its products sold outside the US; Micron warned such a plan could destroy the US chip industry (Wall Street Journal)
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2026-07-25After a backlash, Meta pauses its plan to "rate limit" Conversation Focus, an accessibility feature for its glasses that runs on-device (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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2026-07-25Nvidia and SK Group unveil a $500B+ AI initiative that includes an SK Hynix partnership to secure next-gen memory supply for Nvidia and joint development of HBM (Reuters)
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2026-07-25Nvidia plans to invest $1B in Naver to help finance an AI data center in South Korea, and partners with SK Group to build more than 2 GW of AI data centers (Ian King/Bloomberg)
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2026-07-25A joint preliminary evaluation by the UK's AISI and the US' CAISI finds Kimi K3 trails leading US frontier closed weight models on cyber capability (AI Security Institute)
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2026-07-24The US, China, and other APEC economies release a statement supporting open models, while emphasizing respect for security, data protection, and IP rights (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
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2026-07-24Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later (Reuters)
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2026-07-24A look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor (Wall Street Journal)
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2026-07-24Flush with AI cash, South Korean groups are making their biggest US investment push in years, with their Q1 US foreign direct investment up 100%+ YoY to $10.2B (Financial Times)
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2026-07-24Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
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2026-07-24Singapore-based Ropedia, which captures real-world human experience via video and converts it into model-ready multimodal datasets, raised a $22M pre-Series A (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
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2026-07-24Sources: SpaceX started turning away satellite operators seeking dedicated Falcon 9 rides beyond 2028, and stopped building some non-reusable Falcon components (Bloomberg)
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2026-07-24Amazon tells third-party sellers to label product ads with AI-generated people to comply with a NY law requiring the disclosure of "synthetic performers" in ads (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
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2026-07-24Google says it has $811B in contracted future spending commitments as of June, up nearly $500B from March, covering chips, data centers, electricity, and more (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)
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2026-07-24Ukraine ratchets up its attacks on warehouses of Wildberries, Russia's biggest online retailer and which employs 48,000, hitting five facilities over five days (Sam Meredith/CNBC)
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2026-07-23Amazon closed its San Francisco-based AGI Lab as part of layoffs in its AGI unit earlier this week; the lab's former head David Luan left in February (The Information)
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2026-07-23Sources: AI robotics startup Genesis AI is in talks to raise around $500M in a new funding round at a $3B pre-money valuation (Bloomberg)
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2026-07-23AMD is working with Cerebras to connect AMD's server racks to Cerebras wafers, running their chips simultaneously to make workloads faster; CBRS closed up 4.86% (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
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2026-07-23Nvidia signs a $1.5B accord with Amkor, involving a prepayment by Nvidia to help bolster Amkor's chip packaging facility in Arizona; AMKR jumps 16%+ after hours (Bloomberg)
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2026-07-23Sierra acquires Takeoff, which develops "long-horizon" agents, for an undisclosed sum; founded in 2025, Takeoff neared $10M in annualized revenue in early July (The Information)
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2026-07-23Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, which helps developers use AI models and could fetch ~$10B; PitchBook: OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May (Wall Street Journal)
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2026-07-23SAP reports Q2 cloud revenue up 22% YoY to €6.28B, vs. €6.26B est., total revenue up 9.4% to €9.88B, and lowers its 2026 non-IFRS operating profit guidance (Grace Yoon/Wall Street Journal)
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2026-07-23As the AI industry recruits high-profile academics, research that was once conducted in the open is increasingly getting locked behind closed doors (The Atlantic)
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2026-07-23A profile of Peter Beck, the New Zealand billionaire whose Rocket Lab is pushing to compete with the satellite internet ambitions of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)
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2026-07-23Sources: OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, a feat that would typically have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks (Bloomberg)
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2026-07-23The debate over Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin's departure from the US misses a larger structural reality: China has built a homegrown AI talent pipeline (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
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2026-07-23Sources: Shanghai-listed chip test instruments maker Semight, whose stock is up ~2,200% since its April debut, is considering a secondary listing in Hong Kong (Bloomberg)
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2026-07-23Francisco Partners' co-founder Dipanjan Deb says "AI will not kill the software industry" as the tech-focused PE firm raised $21B, exceeding its $18B target (Antoine Gara/Financial Times)
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2026-07-23Sources detail how Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and crypto adviser Bo Hines worked to shape the GENIUS Act and loosen safeguards to benefit Tether (Bloomberg)
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2026-07-23A study of 11,989 Polymarket users finds 61% placed fewer than 100 trades over a six-week period, with 58% making or losing less than $100 during that period (Kaitlyn Radde/Pew Research Center)
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2026-07-23US GAO study: Amazon workers on federal aid tripled from February 2020 to September 2025; ride-hailing and delivery apps topped employers with workers on aid (Washington Post)
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2026-07-23Meta's infrastructure teams have become bloated, leading to poor decisions like troubled Rivos acquisition, loss of supplier trust due to hardware pivots, more (SemiAnalysis)
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2026-07-23Tesla reports a negative Q2 free cash flow of $1.1B, its first in over two years, partly due to increased AI and robotic investments, amid diminishing profits (Reuters)
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2026-07-23Google reports Q2 free cash flow at negative $5.9B amid increased AI spending, marking its first cash burn since going public decades ago (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)
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2026-07-22The Little Tech Association, a new group of ~200 companies across the startup community, including Y Combinator, urges Trump not to ban Chinese open-weight AI (Sophia Cai/Politico)
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2026-07-22Movement Labs, a layer-2 Ethereum blockchain developer, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after a period of upheaval that included a token scandal and Binance ban (CoinDesk)
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