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Sources: TSMC is developing advanced AI chip packaging tech, internally called “EMIB-like”, similar to Intel's Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge technique (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-30 Intel AI

K2 Space, which builds satellites for tasks like data-heavy communications and may power space-based data centers, raised a $500M Series D at a $6.8B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-30

Google-backed nuclear fusion company Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1B, after raising a $1.8B Series B in 2021 and $863M in 2025, and plans a 2030s launch (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
2026-7-30 Google

London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a source says for ~$1.65B; Anyscale, which helps AI workloads run more efficiently, had a $1B+ valuation in 2022 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-30 AI London

Sources: ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 AI

Filing: Meta reports $279B in future lease agreements in Q2 related to AI data centers that are not reflected on its balance sheet, up 53% from the prior period (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-30 AI

Google integrates Nano Banana 2 into Google Earth via a new Create Image button, letting users prompt visual alterations of locations or infographics (www.zdnet.com)
2026-7-30 Google

Intercontinental Exchange agrees to acquire electronic fixed-income trading platform MarketAxess for ~$6B in cash, a 33% premium, set to close in H1 2027 (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-30

The US FCC's ban on foreign “advanced robotic devices” covers any new ground-based, software-controlled wireless robot over 4.4 pounds, including robot vacuums (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-30 Robot Ban

LinkedIn says it will keep GPU investment, compute, and storage capacity flat during FY 2027 after doubling GPU efficiency in the past six months (www.wired.com)
2026-7-30 LinkedIn

Sources: Amazon staff find cases of “catastrophically expensive” AI costs due to a lack of controls, like $1.8M on Claude to match author details with listings (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 Amazon AI

Comcast Store Punished Low Sales By Smashing Pies In Workers' Faces, Lawsuit Claims (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-30

These refurbished Lenovo Chromebooks are on sale for $55 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-30 Lenovo

Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro is leading a technological overhaul of Disney+ to close the gap with Netflix and YouTube, including new features like vertical videos (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-30 YouTube Netflix

An AI avatar of Brazil's jailed ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who is banned from communicating publicly, is testing new AI rules ahead of Brazil's 2026 elections (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 AI Brazil

ExploitGym creator and Berkeley researcher Jingxuan He says other AI models have tried to cheat but OpenAI's “was at a much larger scale than we'd encountered” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-30 AI

How compute could become over 10x costlier as AI capabilities and monetization outpace supply, and a look at the implications if Anthropic hits $1T in revenue (www.dwarkesh.com)
2026-7-30 AI

OpenAI says using its Responses API harness with GPT-5.6 Sol tripled its ARC-AGI-3 score and used fewer tokens, after Sol with the official harness scored 7.8% (openai.com)
2026-7-30

The EU formally launches a bidding process to develop AI Gigafactories, expecting to unlock ~€30B of investment, closing on November 12 with awards in July 2027 (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-30 AI

Sources: ex-OpenAI executive Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund has sought to raise capital after heavy losses during the recent AI rout (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 AI

Innolight, China's leading maker of optical transceivers, closes 2% below its Hong Kong IPO price after raising ~$6.8B, the city's biggest listing since 2019 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-30 China Hong Kong IPO

Stripe says thousands of solo operators on its service generate $1M+ in annual revenue, and those making $10M+ nearly tripled between 2023 and 2025, aided by AI (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-30 AI

Tens of millions of South Korean retail investors, the market's biggest buyers in 2026, were caught in this week's selloff, as Samsung and SK Hynix tumble (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 Korea Retail Samsung

China's AI hubs, including CXMT's home Hefei, are driving the country's GDP growth, but even in these boomtowns, little of the windfall is reaching households (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-30 China AI GDP

Qantas Plane Flies For More Than 24 Hours In Record-Breaking Flight (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-30 Qantas

10 Movie Costume Redesigns That Disappointed Fans (listverse.com)
2026-7-30

Q&A with CuspAI's Max Welling on its AI Materials Foundry, partnerships with Nvidia and others, Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun joining its advisory board, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 AI Nvidia

A look at ByteDance's efforts to become China's leading company across all aspects of AI, from frontier models and video generation to infrastructure and chips (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 China AI

Though Google's SynthID tech for watermarking AI images is hard to break, there will always be ways to create AI-generated content without any labeling (arstechnica.com)
2026-7-30 Google AI

As the UK slips in Ookla's mobile download speed and Opensignal's network quality rankings, operators blame planning rules and low prices for underinvestment (www.ft.com)
2026-7-30 Mobile

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