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Qualcomm completed its acquisition of AI software company Modular on July 29. Axios valued the all-stock transaction at $3.9 billion, while Qualcomm said Mojo, MAX, and Modular Cloud will continue as products and brands…
Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, adding whole-body humanoid control to its robotics AI stack. According to DeepMind, the vision-language-action model can translate vision and language into motor…
Friend relaunched its AI companion pendant on July 30 with a built-in speaker and a $249 price, up from $129, The Verge reported. Friend's product page says the wearable now supports spoken conversations, requires an…
OpenAI cut API prices for GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% and GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% on July 30, while also reducing how their use counts against ChatGPT Work and Codex subscription limits. OpenAI lists the new API prices at $2 per…
IBM released its 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report on July 29, finding that one in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled and cost an average of $6 million. IBM reported that the global average breach cost reached…
Harness released its 2026 State of AI in FinOps survey on July 29, estimating that enterprises waste 26% of AI spending. The 700-person survey across five countries found that 52% of respondents lacked a clear AI-cost…
Cognition announced on July 23 that it acquired The Interaction Company, maker of texting-based assistant Poke, and plans to bring Poke's proactive conversational design into coding agent Devin. Cognition said users…
Apollo published a July 30 white paper estimating that real-wage growth in high-AI-exposure occupations was 6.7 percentage points slower after 2023 than in lower-exposure occupations, while the study detected no…
Meta's July 30 quarterly filing disclosed $278.99 billion in operating and finance lease obligations that had not yet begun, covering data centers, colocations and network infrastructure. That was about 53% above the…
On July 30, TSMC was reported to be developing advanced chip packaging comparable to Intel's EMIB, potentially expanding options for AI-chip integration. The Information, cited by Seeking Alpha, reported that the work…
LinkedIn began showing a "Seems like AI slop" reporting option on July 30, 2026, giving members a way to flag posts they view as low-quality or inauthentic. LinkedIn product chief Hari Srinivasan said those reports will…
A July 27 Reuters Legal commentary documented how state attorneys general are applying existing consumer-protection, licensing, privacy and advertising laws to AI products rather than waiting for AI-specific statutes.…
European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said on July 30 that ChatGPT and Roblox could be designated as very large online platforms or search engines under the Digital Services Act. He said both services had…
Google launched Gemini Robotics ER 2 on July 30, making the embodied-reasoning model available through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Google reports 57.4% accuracy on progress classification and 91.3% on moment…
Simile raised $200 million at a $2 billion valuation on July 30, 2026, to build AI-generated "agentic twins" for market research. The New York Times reports that Greenoaks led the round, with Index Ventures, Hanabi, A*,…
On July 30, 2026, IFPI applied generative AI chart-eligibility principles to the official music charts it directly manages, covering markets in MENA, Southeast Asia, South Africa and Latin America. Music Business…
Nscale said on July 30 that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Anyscale, the company behind the Ray distributed-computing framework. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2026, subject to closing…
Discern Security announced a $13 million Series A on July 30 led by Forgepoint Capital, with First Rays Ventures, Growth Enjin Partners, Vela Ventures and angel investors participating. The company said it will use the…
DataBahn announced a $40 million Series B on July 30 led by Insight Partners, with Forgepoint, GTM Capital and S3 Ventures participating. The company said the round brings total funding to $59 million and will expand…
On July 29, 2026, Heinen's deployed Afresh's Period Ending Inventory system across produce, meat, deli, cheese, and bakery, replacing after-hours manual inventory counts with AI-generated estimates. The system uses…
China's National Bureau of Statistics reported that integrated-circuit manufacturing profits rose 2,579.5% year over year in the first half of 2026, while profits across electronics industries increased 96.9%. The…
Chinese creators Liu Ziyu and Meng Ke gained industry attention in 2026 with AI-assisted films produced outside traditional studio pipelines. 36Kr reported that Liu's Zombie Scavenger passed 100 million views across…
Microsoft's fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and Meta's 2026 second quarter, both reported July 29, showed different financial pressures around AI infrastructure. Microsoft spent $41 billion on capital expenditures as Azure…
Orca Security announced two AI-powered security capabilities on July 30: AI AppGen Security for applications built outside conventional development pipelines, and AI Code Security Auditor for code developed within them.…
Google DeepMind has introduced Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, saying the model improves musicality, lyrics and vocal quality while supporting variable song lengths. The update gives creators a newer model inside…
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking opened a tender on July 30 to select consortia for up to seven AI Gigafactories, with proposals due November 12. The official release says public anchor funding is intended to unlock more…
China's Foreign Ministry on July 29 condemned what it described as Japanese right-wing groups' use of AI and paid crowdsourcing to produce anti-China and historical-revisionist videos. The official transcript verifies…
AXIS Capital appointed Rahil Jogani on July 29 to the newly created role of Head of Technology & Artificial Intelligence Strategy. Based in New York and reporting to Group Chief Operations Officer Ann Haugh, he will…
A complaint filed June 15 in San Francisco Superior Court by Christian Faith Madison's estate administrator and on behalf of her minor son alleges GPT-4o fostered dependency, reinforced religious delusions and…
Meta and BlackRock announced on July 28 a venture to own Meta's 1 GW El Paso data center campus, which is under construction and carries about $14 billion in development costs. BlackRock-managed funds will own 80% and…
Kaon AI CEO Jay Dang said in a July 30 interview that the company generates individualized story worlds in real time instead of recommending from a fixed catalog. The comments followed Kaon’s July 8 Series B…
NightRun is an experimental open-source UEFI application that boots a Raspberry Pi 5 or x86_64 PC directly into a local LLM without loading a conventional operating system. Published on GitHub on July 27 and…
SARS warned during South Africa's 2026 filing season that scammers are using AI to make fake refund emails and SMS messages look more convincing. BusinessTech reported on July 29 that the lures can claim refunds of up…
Sophia Space announced on July 30 that it and the California Institute of Technology had received U.S. Patent 12,679,564 on July 14 for a modular, solar-powered orbital data-center architecture with passive heat…
Digiday reported on July 30 that publishers are again discussing whether to block Google's crawlers as AI-generated answers reduce the perceived value of search referrals. A broad Googlebot block can also remove content…
On July 16, 2026, Zohra Souei and colleagues published a systematic review of 239 peer-reviewed studies on AI in deep brain stimulation for movement disorders, finding that most systems remain at early-to-intermediate…
MinIO introduced AIStor Memory on July 29, a customer-controlled persistence layer for AI agents that keeps durable knowledge, active workspace state, and credentials as distinct services on the AIStor platform. The…
TikTok has issued election guidelines ahead of Israel's October 27, 2026 Knesset vote, prohibiting paid political advertising and requiring labels for realistic AI-generated or altered content. The Jerusalem Post…
Moneycontrol reported on June 4 that India’s National e-Governance Division had empanelled six companies to provide AI and machine-learning personnel and services for government projects. The panel—TCS, NEC India,…
Meta reported $60.80 billion in second-quarter revenue on July 29, up 28% year over year, as ad impressions rose 14% and average price per ad increased 12%. The company also said 9 million small businesses use at least…
Researchers published a two-stage machine-learning framework on July 28 that detects diabetes and then assigns records to prediabetes, type 1, type 2, or pancreatogenic diabetes groups. The paper reports performance…
Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar! party sent a legal warning to Yonatan Urich after he posted an AI-generated video depicting Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump mocking Eisenkot in Hebrew, The Jerusalem Post reported on July 30.…
Microsoft said on July 29 that average weekly engagement with Microsoft 365 Copilot is on par with Outlook and Teams, while conversations per user nearly doubled year over year. The company also reported more than 30…
Saskatoon city administration will review the economic, infrastructure and environmental tradeoffs of major data centres following Councillor Scott Ford's July 29 motion. The official council record calls for analysis…
Anthropic resolved a Claude outage on July 29 after elevated errors affected multiple models, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and the Claude API. The official public incident record shows errors beginning at 19:45 UTC, recovery…
Microsoft said on July 29 that its underlying calendar-2026 infrastructure investment plan remains unchanged, but a shift of future datacenter leases from finance leases to operating leases lowers expected reported…
Shaw University announced on June 24, 2026, that SACSCOC approved it to confer doctoral degrees, clearing the way for its Divinity School to launch an EdD in Artificial Intelligence and Moral Agency. Shaw calls it the…
On July 25, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue asked OpenAI to release the execution traces from agents involved in the Hugging Face breach and commit $100 million in compute to defensive research. OpenAI said its review…
On Meta's July 29 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans personal AI agents that can work continuously on users' behalf and must function without specialist setup. The broader vision has no stated…
The Bureau of Land Management approved the Townsite Data Center on June 26, authorizing Townsite Solar 2 LLC to construct and operate a facility on federal public land near Boulder City, Nevada. BLM's announcement lists…
