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MA-based Walden Robotics, a Toyota robotics spin-off that has started selling humanoid robots, emerges from stealth with a ~$300M seed at a $1.1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-15 Robot Toyota

Top 10 Hit Song Lyrics That Became Cultural Catchphrases (listverse.com)
2026-7-15

House Votes For Permanent Daylight Saving Time (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-15

ASML reports Q2 net sales of €9.3B, above €8.8B est., a €2.9B net profit, above €2.6B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €36B-€40B to €43B-€45B (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-15

ASML says Intel has decided to use ASML's next-gen High NA EUV machines to make some of its flagship Panther Lake laptop chips; a High NA machine costs ~$400M (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-15 Intel

A profile of PsiQuantum, which raised $1B in 2025, is building a quantum computer with photonic chips made by GlobalFoundries and is closely monitored by DARPA (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-7-15 Quantum

As China's rules for humanlike AI interaction take effect, many users are bemoaning the loss of the virtual companions they had created on Chinese AI platforms (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-15 China AI

Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue recently reached $400M to $500M as it seeks to raise ~$7.4B at a ~$74B valuation, up from ~$50B after raising ~$7B in May (www.theinformation.com)
2026-7-15

Court filing: Google says it is ready to add third-party app stores in Google Play in the US on July 22, as Google and Epic withdraw their joint motion (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-15 Google

The UAE gained broader US AI chip access after aiding the US in the Iran war, letting G42 buy freely for at least nine months; G42 plans to become a US company (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-15 AI Iran

Sources: Oracle leads the race to sell “air-gapped” cloud services to Japan that the US says are key to secure intelligence sharing between Tokyo and its allies (www.ft.com)
2026-7-15 Japan Oracle Intelligence Tokyo

Daniel Ek's Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans, raised $700M co-led by Lightspeed and O.G. Venture Partners, sources say at a ~$7B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-15 AI

Iran Abused Mobile Networks' Vulnerabilities To Locate US Military In Middle East (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-15 Mobile Iran

NYC-based Hadrius, which provides AI-native compliance tools for financial services, raised a $22M Series A led by CRV with participation from Y Combinator (www.axios.com)
2026-7-15 AI Y Combinator

Sources: Stripe and PE firm Advent International have jointly offered $60.50/share to acquire PayPal, a 28% premium to Tuesday's close, valuing it at $53B+ (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-15

Sources: OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving the company to launch an AI drug discovery startup, and is in talks to raise $200M at a $2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-15 Startup AI

Meta is sued by 26 current and former employees, who allege its use of AI in May layoffs unfairly targeted workers with disabilities or on protected leave (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-15 AI Layoffs

Sources: multiple GOP governors and large utilities are expected to join Trump's pledge for data center developers to cover their energy use and infrastructure (www.politico.com)
2026-7-15 Trump Energy Republican

Monitoring Analytics: PJM's recent electricity auction is expected to add $6.3B to customers' bills in 13 states and DC through 2029 due to data center demands (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-15

InstaLILY, which develops AI agents to automate sales, operations, and service workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Energize Capital (siliconangle.com)
2026-7-15 AI

Sources: CoreWeave is exploring the use of financial derivatives as a potential hedge against a future drop in memory and storage chip prices (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-15

Study: social networks drove 5.7M+ visits to nudify sites between December 2025 and March 2026, with YouTube accounting for 1.82M and X for 1.3M visits (www.wired.com)
2026-7-15 YouTube

OpenAI's First Device Will Be Moveable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-7-15 AI

OpenAI says Apple's claim that OpenAI never responded to its concerns is false; emails: an Apple lawyer mixed up two OpenAI staffers in Apple's initial outreach (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-7-15 Apple

Cybersecurity stocks rallied on Tuesday after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna flagged cyber fears as a top priority for customers; CrowdStrike jumped 12%, Okta rose 11% (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-15 IBM

The Trump administration launches the “Gold Eagle” federal clearinghouse for sharing AI cyber threat information between the government and private sector (cyberscoop.com)
2026-7-15 Trump AI

Google Images Gets a Pinterest-Like Redesign Focused On Discovery (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-15 Google

Demis Hassabis proposes a US-based Standards Body for “Frontier-class” AI, modeled after FINRA; labs would share models for review up to 30 days before release (demishassabis.substack.com)
2026-7-15 AI

The UK government proposes a default overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds and disabling features like auto-play and infinite scroll by default (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-15

Lawsuit Claims Meta's Layoff Decisions Were Made By AI, Not Humans (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-15 AI

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