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2026-07-21Sources: Alphabet has more than quadrupled its office space in Miami, partially driven by Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's residential real estate purchases (Anna J Kaiser/Bloomberg)
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2026-07-21Trump nominates FCC General Counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit; Candeub, a longtime Big Tech critic, has long sought to challenge Section 230 (Ella Lee/Financial Times)
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2026-07-21Documents: Meta's internal AI incubator is developing an AI model router, similar to OpenRouter's, to cut costs by sending some AI tasks to lower-cost models (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
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2026-07-21London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M (John Koetsier/Forbes)
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2026-07-21Amazon says its business sales unit, Amazon Business, reached $60B in annualized gross sales in Q2, up ~71% from 2023, and serves 11M+ organizations worldwide (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
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2026-07-21OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years (Sara Fischer/Axios)
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2026-07-21OpenAI adds Nubank founder and CEO David Vélez and BNY CEO Robin Vince to its board of directors, as the company moves toward a public listing (Wall Street Journal)
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2026-07-21OpenAI says its models chained vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's infrastructure to find solutions for the ExploitGym benchmark (OpenAI)
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2026-07-21GitHub says individuals and orgs have invested $100M+ in open source maintainers and projects via GitHub Sponsors since 2019, with $10M in the past five months (Stephanie Lincoln/The GitHub Blog)
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2026-07-21Sony Music files a second copyright suit against Udio, alleging the AI music company copied 30,117 recordings without permission to train its AI models (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
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2026-07-21Singapore-based Ant International, a payments company which spun out of Ant Group in 2024, raised $1.2B from investors including Ant Group and Alibaba (Reuters)
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2026-07-21Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle grew an est. ~8x since 2022 to ~$1.65T, eclipsing ~$1.35T in balance sheet debt (Kohei Yamada/Nikkei Asia)
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2026-07-21South Korean customs data: for the first 20 days of July, the country's chip exports rose 180% YoY to $22.1B, and computer-related product shipments rose ~232% (Heesu Lee/Bloomberg)
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