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2026-07-08Sources: Reno-based AI chip startup Positron is in talks to raise ~$750M in two phases, at valuations of $3.5B in the first tranche and ~$5B in the second (Bloomberg)
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2026-07-08The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
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2026-07-08OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark (OpenAI)
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2026-07-08Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
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2026-07-08Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens (Axios)
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2026-07-08SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to "handle difficult, long-running" legal, finance, and coding tasks (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
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2026-07-08OpenAI rolls out two versions of GPT-Live: GPT-Live-1, powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT-Live-1 mini, the default for free users (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
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2026-07-08OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time (OpenAI)
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2026-07-08US lawmakers are considering strategies to curb US companies' growing adoption of Chinese AI models, as a House committee investigation investigates the risks (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
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2026-07-08A look at effective altruism's fall after SBF's arrest and how the soon-to-be rich from upcoming AI IPOs give the movement a chance to return larger than ever (Andrew Fedorov/New York Magazine)
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2026-07-08Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent (Financial Times)
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2026-07-08The global AI boom has thrust CPUs back into the spotlight as Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and others challenge Intel and AMD in the AI data center CPU market (Nikkei Asia)
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2026-07-08Oratomic, which is developing quantum computing hardware and software, raised a $300M Series A led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures (Matt Swayne/The Quantum Insider)
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2026-07-08A look at Chinese lidar maker Hesai, blacklisted by the US DOD in 2024, as it expands in the US; Hesai says it has ~33% of the global automotive lidar market (CNBC)
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2026-07-08Paris-based Skello, which provides AI-powered HR tools for frontline workforce management, raised €200M led by Bridgepoint to support its European expansion (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)
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2026-07-08Sources: Meta is testing AI glasses that continuously record audio and take photos every few seconds, letting users query or recall what they saw or heard (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
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2026-07-08Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their hardware in a new system to power AI models, the latest example of Nvidia partnering with rivals (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
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2026-07-08OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly on Thursday; a source says the US Department of Commerce cleared a broad rollout (Axios)
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2026-07-08Lisbon-based Bizay, a customized products marketplace for SMBs, raised a $55M Series D led by Indico, as it aims to accelerate its US expansion (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
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2026-07-08Apple's interest in buying CXMT chips has thrust the Chinese memory chip maker and its relationship with Beijing into the AI supply chain spotlight (Financial Times)
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2026-07-08Sleep apnea device maker ResMed agrees to sell its software business MatrixCare to PE firm Frazier for $490M in cash; ResMed bought MatrixCare for $750M in 2018 (Puyaan Singh/Reuters)
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2026-07-08Meta says it will update its glasses with a new feature that disables the camera if someone tampers with the glasses' privacy LED light (Victoria Song/The Verge)
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2026-07-08Meta says Muse Image includes an invisible watermarking system called Content Seal and previews a web tool to check whether an image was generated with Meta AI (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
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