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NextEra, Brookfield to Build $100 Billion Kentucky Data Campus (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-29

Waymo gradually resumes freeway routes, starting with Phoenix, more than two months after suspending them to improve performance around construction zones (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-29

DoorDash Is Building Its Own Drone Delivery Business (slashdot.org)
2026-7-29 Drone

Google launches its Lyria 3.5 music generation model in Google Flow Music, highlighting improved musicality, lyrics, vocal quality, and creative control (blog.google)
2026-7-29 Google

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI after announcing earlier this week she was leaving TML over workload-related health concerns (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-29

Russia Charges Telegram Founder Durov With Facilitating Terrorism (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-29 Russia Terrorism

Health-ISAC warns of rising ShinyHunters data theft attacks on healthcare (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-29

Looking for calmer screen time? Try this $60 Montessori-inspired app (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-29

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027 (www.axios.com)
2026-7-29

Anthropic's cryptanalysis results on HAWK and AES show AI can now understand existing cryptanalysis results, turn them into new attacks, and even extend them (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
2026-7-29 AI

OpenAI's Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face (it.slashdot.org)
2026-7-29 AI

OpenAI agent used exposed credentials at 4 services in Hugging Face breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-29

Investors continue to dump chipmaker stocks on Wednesday following disappointing results from SK Hynix; Sandisk is down 7.5%+, Arm 6.5%+, and AMD 6.5%+ (www.ft.com)
2026-7-29 AMD

Qualcomm says it has signed a 10-year deal to supply chips for BMW's future digital cockpit and advanced driver-assistance systems (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-29

Encore AI, which studies companies' customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-29 AI

Groundcover, which provides observability software that can monitor AI agents, raised a $100M Series C led by One Peak, bringing its total funding to $160M (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-7-29 AI

Survey: 77% of US adults support in-class cellphone bans for middle and high school students, up from 74% in 2025 and 68% in 2024; just 18% oppose such bans (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-7-29

ChipAgents, which uses AI agents to help speed up the process of chip design, raised a $60M Series A2 led by B Capital, bringing the expanded round to $134M (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-29 AI

Hackers target over 30 Minnesota water utilities in coordinated OT attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-29

Brookfield and NextEra partner to develop a $100B, 1.2GW+ AI data center campus at a former DOE uranium-enrichment site in Kentucky, set to open in 2032 (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-29 AI

A look at OpenAI's open-source agent harness that now powers Codex and ChatGPT Work, as the company works to optimize the harness to cut runaway token usage (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-7-29

Eliyan, which aims to license tech and make physical “chiplets” to ease AI chip data transfer bottlenecks, raised a $145M Series C at a $1B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-29 AI

More Than 30 Minnesota Water Systems Targeted In Cyberattack (it.slashdot.org)
2026-7-29

X settles a long-running legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a case that accused brands like Mars and Shell of illegally boycotting X (www.ft.com)
2026-7-29

Windows 11 KB5101684 update released with 42 changes and fixes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-29

Your AI Agents Are Guessing at Scale: Permissions Decide the Damage (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-29 AI

DoorDash says the FAA granted it Part 135 air carrier certification to operate a drone delivery service and it plans to launch drone deliveries in the fall (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-29 Drone

Source: OpenRouter was recently generating ~$140M in annualized revenue, or ~$12M per month, up nearly 3x since April, making Stripe's $10B offer a big premium (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-29

GlobalFoundries says the US plans to award it $300M in CHIPS Act funding to bolster R&D of silicon photonics tech to power more efficient AI data centers (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-29 AI

Mark Zuckerberg says the US should not ban Chinese AI models and that AI model peer reviewing or vetting could be positive if “done well with thoughtful people” (www.ft.com)
2026-7-29 China AI Ban Zuckerberg

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