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AI drug design startup Chai Discovery raised $400M led by Index at a $3.8B valuation, as it positions its Chai models as AI infrastructure for pharmaceuticals (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-14 Startup AI

IBM reports preliminary Q2 revenue of $17.2B, below $17.9B est., as CEO Arvind Krishna says customers are holding back spending; IBM falls 17% pre-market (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-14 IBM

Indian Scientists Produce Most Detailed 3D Atlas of the Human Brainstem (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-14 India

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new permits for hyperscale data centers exceeding 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so (www.theverge.com)
2026-7-14 New York

Survey: 57% of US women and 47% of men ages 18 to 29 say they get health and wellness information from influencers; women say they see such content more often (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-7-14

Nikita Bier says X made a “tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals”, or those who users follow back, to avoid replies becoming a “battleground” (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-14

Demis Hassabis proposes a US-based Standards Body for “Frontier-class” AI, modeled after the FINRA; labs would voluntarily share models 30 days before release (x.com)
2026-7-14 AI

Sources: DeepSeek is in preliminary talks with investors about raising new funds at a ~$71B valuation, after raising ~$7B at a ~$52B valuation at the end of May (www.ft.com)
2026-7-14

A look at AI world models, including how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled, as startups led by tech leaders like Yann LeCun raise billions (arstechnica.com)
2026-7-14 Startup AI

China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments (www.idc.com)
2026-7-14 China Apple

eMarketer: chatbots like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode will generate less than $1B in ad revenue in 2026; OpenAI projected $2.5B in ChatGPT ad revenue this year (www.adweek.com)
2026-7-14 Google AI chatbot

10 Bizarre Viral Trends That Took Things Too Far (listverse.com)
2026-7-14

Scientists Find Sugar Deep In Our Galaxy (science.slashdot.org)
2026-7-14

Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029 (www.ft.com)
2026-7-14 Google Energy Solar

Researchers detail “context bombing”, where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% (arstechnica.com)
2026-7-14 AI

Over 200 Economists Say 'We Must Act Now' On AI's Economic Impact (slashdot.org)
2026-7-14 AI

Sources: Nvidia intensified due diligence and cut its authorized AI chip customers in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan by 50%+ to prevent China diversions (www.ft.com)
2026-7-14 China Japan AI Singapore Malaysia Nvidia

In the wake of China's “embodied AI” push, there's an urgency among China's 100+ humanoid startups to launch IPOs; LimX Dynamics raises $200M in a pre-IPO round (www.cnbc.com)
2026-7-14 China IPO Startup AI

Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-14 Alibaba Startup Singapore

Anthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude's expressed values and behaviors vary across models and languages (decrypt.co)
2026-7-14

Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-14 Startup Robot

Microsoft Promises To Fix Search With Major Windows 11 Overhaul (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-14 Microsoft

Sources: Trump admin and industry groups have discussed streamlining releases of US open models of equal or lesser capability than leading Chinese open models (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-7-14 Trump China

Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the public debut of the new Siri AI (www.engadget.com)
2026-7-14 IOS AI Apple

US Government Warns That Russia State Hackers Are Coming After Your Router (it.slashdot.org)
2026-7-14 Russia

German Firm Files For Insolvency After Cybercriminals Shut Down Production For 6 Weeks (slashdot.org)
2026-7-14 Germany

Japan's largest taxi operator shuts systems after cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-14 Japan

Hackers backdoor Jscrambler npm package with infostealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-14

States Sue to Block Paramount-Warner Bros Merger, Defying DOJ (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-14

Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-7-14 Microsoft

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